Bought a new Macbook Pro yesterday, can't connect to home WIFI (Help!)
Hey everyone,
Bought the Macbook Pro 15" yesterday from the states and took it home to British Columbia. So I set everything up, tried connecting to my home router network and it says:
"Unable to join WI-FI Network
This computer was unable to join the WIFI Network you selected. You may have entered an incorrect pass / network name, chosen the wrong type of wireless security, or you may be out of range of the base station."
also, the settings say that "Wi-Fi has the self assigned IP address 169.254.156.214 and will not be able to connect to the Internet."
This is really frustrating because the desktop I'm typing this message on is connected to the internet fine, my brother's Macbook is connected fine, so are the various iPad's and iPhones in this household. Everything except for the newly bought Macbook Pro.
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