Horrible airport reception in new mac pro's?
I just received my mac pro late last week. I love everything about it except it's airport reception is really bad. I seem to be getting a lot of packet loss and trouble using it for much of anything. Even browsing the web is super slow.
I've got wireless devices all throughout my house and have a macbook pro sitting really close to it that connections to the network at full strength.
Is this to be expected? I've been doing some research and it seems some of the past models have had pretty bad reception too. Right now my work around is hooking it up to my MBP and using connection sharing but would love another solution.
Thanks!
I don't know about the new Nehalem Macs but I've owned both the first gen Mac Pro and now the Early 2008 version and can only say that the Airport reception is basically terrible. Even after switching antennas this Mac Pro only gets 60% reception while my old old AGP-Sawtooth which lies only 3 feet away gets 100% reception. On the old Sawtooth I can pick up 10 different networks, on the Mac Pro I only get my own and one other with a very weak signal. I did extensive testing with my local Apple dealer in his store and we both came to the conclusion that the Mac pros have crappy airport reception. We compared 3 Mac pros to iMacs and MacBooks in various locations in relation to their Wi-Fi router and the Mac Pros all showed much weaker signal strength that fell to useless in certain locations while the Macbooks still had four bars.
I've had to situate my router to be on the floor directly above me in order to get three solid bars, while the sawtooth gets full signal strength only three feet away from the Mac Pro. The only solution suggested by my Apple Dealer was a tad pricey but might be very effective: http://www.quickertek.com/
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How do I get new Mac Pro to "find" my HP LaserJet 1200n?
I have been using my HP LaserJet 1200n with my G5. The ethernet cable from the printer is plugged into my Airport Extreme Base Station. On the G5 I have checked the box "Share this Printer", and its location is given as "Local Zone". I have added a new Mac Pro, and want to use the LaserJet with it. I will be getting rid of the G5. The problem I am having is that I can not get the Mac Pro to "find" the LaserJet on its own. IF I have the G5 turned on, then and only then will the Mac Pro print via ethernet to the LaserJet. In this configuration it lists the Laserjet "@ G5". With the G5 turned off the Mac Pro Systems Prefs list the LaserJet as "idle", but when I attempt to print the Mac Pro searches for the LaserJet with no results. How do I fix this? Thanks!
Good news and bad news.
Good news: I got it to work
Bad news: It worked after about 4-1/2 hours of reading Apple and HP posts and printer manuals, and I really don't know that I did anything different I didn't do at 20 min.
To document for anyone that might search...
With a Laserjet 2100M or 2100TN connected through a Linksys router, I think what was key is to unplug and restart every network device several times, including the router itself. That's the only thing I can think of that might have made it work this time since I was doing the random monkey thing.
Pushing both buttons simultaneously on the printer gets it to divulge its IP address, but I realized I can look at my router in the browser and see where it starts assigning IP addresses (...100 in my case) and if worse came to worse, just configure a bunch of printers with ...100, ...101, etc up to the number of devices on the network since you don't know what got assigned what address (it's unrelated to which of the four ports a device is plugged into because of the wireless devices).
So you can go to the printer menu, I right click on the existing printers and clear all the printers, then hit + and then go to IP menu and pick the jetsocket choice, type in the IP address. The very last (successful) time, it knew what the printer was and picked the drivers (instead of generic postscript or PCL like it had 50 times before).
Again, I think it's the rebooting and unplugging or turning things off to force them to do a little comms handshaking. Depression to elation, all over a printer. We're just pawns in the grip of multinational hegemony. <joke>
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Installing airport extreme into my Mac Pro
Hey everyone! I just bought a Refurbished AirPort Extreme Card
Part Number: F8881LL/A from the apple store. Ive been searching around and there are no support documents on how to install in in my machine. Does anyone have any instruction on how to do this? Also, now that I think about it, im not even sure this card will work with my computer? Will it? Thanks in advance!!Okay but what if....
I bought a new Mac Pro Quad on Friday night at an actual Apple store. They only carried stock base models, so I loaded up on extras like a 750 GB drive, 6GB more memory, and also AP Extreme & BT. They sold it to me, didn't bat an eye about it being a dealer only installed item. But much like some of the other users I've seen posted, cannot seem to find instructions on HOW to install it.
But I'd have to presume that a store full of Apple experts, all fawning over my new Quad and 30" monitor...that at least one of them would have stopped me from buying it. -
Rendering slowed to a grinding halt CS6 on brand new mac pro...
Unbelievably and excruciatingly painful slow rendering in AE CS6 on a brand new Mac Pro.
My Pro:
3.5 Ghz 6-core Intel Xeon E5
32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC
AMD FirePro D700 6144MB
OSX 10.9.2
1) Internal 500GB SSD - (using 90gb for AE media cache)
External Thunderbolt drives:
2) 2 TB WD Black Caviar - (hosting all project assets)
3) 2 TB WD Black Caviar - (rendering destination)
Running After Effects CS6
The footage in my comp is just a bunch of illustrator files, and shape layers. There are 2 videos, but removing them does not improve the rendering. All the illustrator files are RGB. I am using effects on layers, but nothing out of the ordinary, a few displacement maps, some grain (non animated), some distort mesh (pre-rendering the distort mesh helped a little, but pretty sure there is something REALLY wrong here)
When its rendering, and I look at Activity Monitor, 85% of the CPU is still idle! I'm using Rendering Multiple Frames... 6 Cores for AE - 4 for others. 3GB for AE.
Of the 32gb RAM saving 4 for others applications.
For 25 seconds of footage, the task bar says something like 6 hours to render... and then it doesn't even finish. Even pre-rendering the distort mesh in a 4 layer pre-comp, for 25 seconds, took 25 minutes.
Someone please help, I'm not sure whats going on, but something is horribly wrong.Not new to AE. Was rendering with animation codec, and have also tried using pro res 4444 to see if it will help.
comp size 1920 x 1080 @ 60fps
Turned off RMFS - and while this helps with the RAM preview (also setting the RAM preview to skip 1)
I was able to render using pro res 4444 @ 50% resolution @ 50% frame rate @ draft quality in 11 min (25 seconds) after pre-rendering 2 pre-comps.
Which is much better, but really don't understand why it could be taking so long.
I want to be able to RAM preview @ 60 fps - but every time RMFS is turned on it throws errors like "AE needs 2 or more playback frames" and I've also seen the error about it skipping frames and to allocate more memory to background processes. But no other programs running...
And I made a mistake: 12 cores, 8 for AE and 4 for other apps is what I had RMFS set to. -
Advise please - Ordering new Mac Pro
My boss told me to order one of the new Mac Pros today. I went to the Apple store and placed a tentative order but before I send it on for payment I'm looking for a little advice from all you experts who have helped me so graciously in the past. I'll list the pre-confirgured order below. Let me know what you think. I'm looking to find out if I'm on the right track for the work I do (so I don't look stupid to the company honchos) and if the hardware is adequate. I'll buy an additional 8G of RAM (probably OWC) and transfer my current three TB hard drives from my [old] 3.0Ghz Dual Core Mac Pro over to the 3.2Ghz Quad-Core (giving me 4TB HD space altogether with a 2TB LaCie external for backup].
Primarily I do film editing using Final Cut Pro, video capturing, rendering and conversions to various media formats. I also burn a lot of sample work and pre-production DVDs. I do a lot of other stuff too but that's the lighter stuff. Here's my pre-order, hence the two SuperDrives (as well as a third LaCie USB optical drive):
Airport Extreme card
Two 16X SuperDrives
Two 3.2Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
2GB (2X1GB) of RAM
1TB 7200 RPM Serial ATA
Accessory kit
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT w/512MB (Two dual-link DVI).
Wireless mighty mouse and keyboard.
I have two 30" Apple HD displays to connect.
Comes in at a little under $5,000. We will pass my current Mac Pro on to the "new" guy.
Thanks!
LisaLooks good; lucky you. So there is a good reason to have a boss...
You are wise to purchase the extra RAM from OWC rather than from Apple.
Sounds like it will be a great machine; in a couple of years, though, you will probably be passing it on to the "new guy". -
Hey all,
I just bought a new Mac Pro with bluetooth installed, but I'm having some issues. The system finds the bluetooth card and all the associated software (the bluetooth pref panel, the bluetooth menu, etc) seems to be functioning the way it should but the computer can't find any bluetooth devices.
When I try to set up a new device, and I've tried a keyboard, a mouse, and two different phones, I make the device discoverable and then BT set up gives me the message "no _ found. make sure your device is on and set to discoverable" or something to that effect. Is the card defective? Normally when the cards don't work bluetooth itself would show up as unavailable. Any ideas what's going on?
Mac Pro 2x3GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4 GB RAM, RadeonX1900, Bluetooth cardThe standard first attempt at "fixing" BT problems is to do a smc and pram reset (try these first). But for mac pro's, if you are using a magic mouse say, about 3 or more feet, from the mac pro, you are most likely in for some continued aggravation. That's because the BT antenna is hidden in the back of the mac pro (faraday cage) and the magic mouse BT, for lack of better words, $ucks.
Here's a thread on this subject:
Poor Bluetooth reception and jerky mouse
Basically it comes down to wiring your own external antenna in place of the internal one already there or using a BT USB dongle. I use a dongle myself on my 2010 mac pro.
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