Macbook Fios Wireless Connection Issues

Hi everyone. All of a sudden today my Macbook is having issues connecting to my Verizon Fios Wireless Internet. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or is aware of any problems with compatibility or something. Any tips or advice? Thanks!

Finally got an answer! Thanks to all the folks I talked to, one of them taught me a little trick that I wanted to share. What worked was renaming the router, then making the macbook connect to it as if it was a new network - it connected and stayed online. Then renaming the router back and connecting to it again as it were a new network and it connected and has stayed connected. Hope this works for anyone else having this issue!

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Hi, here is the way to Zap""
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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Over the last 3 days my wireless devices have been having issues with connectivity.
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Modem - Motorola SB5102 Cable Modem
1 TB Time Capsule 802.11n (second generation)
The devices are approximately 3 feet apart.
Wired Device:
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Wireless Devices:
Playstation 3
Macbook Air
iPhone 5c
iPhone 4
I am having issues with internet connectivity. The wireless signal strength is fine as all devices can find the network. However when connected to the network accessing the internet on the Macbook Air, or either iPhone is slow and streaming services such as Netflix cannot connect. I have intermitant connectivity to the Playstation Network on the PS3.
I have wired both the Macbook Air and PS3 directly to the Time Capsule and have no issues, internet is accessible and streaming services are fine.
I have power cycled all the devices (Time Capsule, macbook, iphones, PS3, modem) to no result.
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A Gen2 TC is probably on its last gasp.. and it is well overdue for replacement.
If you want to get more life out of it you normally need to repair or replace the internal power supply.. This is not done by apple or any of their repair centres.
Just do ebay search and you will find sellers with replacement supplies.
Otherwise to test, do a full factory reset..
I would also downgrade the firmware.. 7.5.2 will work just as well for you and has less bugs than 7.6.x firmware.
To downgrade hold down the option key when you select firmware version.
The Factory Reset universal
Unplug your TC/AE. Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. The time is not important.. it is the front LED rapid flashing that indicates you are in factory mode.
Release reset.
If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have released reset at some point and try again.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.

Satellite U940 PSU6VA - Wireless connectivity issues

_*My specifications:*_
*Model:* Toshiba Ultrabook (Satellite U940 PSU6VA-00S002)
*Operating System:* Windows 8.1 x64 (upgraded from Windows 8 x64)
*Wireless adapter:* Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2200
*Wireless adapter driver version:* 15.10.0.12 (which is the latest for my device)
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It is only this computer that has these problems; the other computers in my house never experience these issues, no matter how many computers are online. Also, my computer does not only experience these issues with my home router; it has the same issues on my university's wireless network.
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> {quote:title=TomDexter wrote:}{quote}
> Intel page provides the Wlan driver for this WLan card and its v16.7.0 for Win 8.1
I just checked the page you linked to, but it recommends that laptop users obtain their drivers from their OEM rather than from Intel.
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> {quote:title=TomDexter wrote:}{quote}
> I would recommend you to check the Wlan functionality and performance testing each Wlan standard 802.11 B / G and N and additionally check the different Wlan channels (1-11)
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Verizon Fios Wireless Compatibility Issues with MacBook Pro

Good afternoon,
We have Verizon Fios as our internet provider. We both have PCs that are connected to the router and my husband has a laptop that connects both via an ethernet cable and wirelessly. We do not have any problems connecting our PCs and the laptop to the Verizon Fios service.
In December of 2007, I purchased a MacBook Pro. For several months, my ability to connect wirelessly with my MacBook Pro was great. However, beginning around March of 2008, my wireless connection began to become sporadic. Now, my ability to connect wirelessly to Fios varies based upon where I am in our home. When in the same room as the router or in the room above the router, my connection is great. I have no issues. In all other rooms, I either cannot connect wirelessly or the connection is sporadic at best.
I have spoken with Apple Customer Service and Verizon Fios Customer Service on numerous occasions. My last discussion resulted in the service representative telling me that there are inherent problems with connecting Fios and Apple and I would either have to switch to all Fios components or all Apple components. As long as I have both components connected to each other, I will continue to experience problems.
Per Verizon, we upgraded our firmware and changed our security settings. These changes did not help. Per an Apple sales clerk, I purchased an Airport Express Base Station. When I arrived home and called customer service to help me connect it, I was told that it would not help my situation.
Please tell me there are other options. The whole point of having a laptop is so I'm not restricted to one location.
Thank you,

I am having the same problem, although we have been experiencing the problem with a Windows machine as well. Sporadic internet is very frustrating! Right now it's working fine two stories above the router on my MBP, but I'm constantly checking the airport meter to see if I've lost my connection. 20 minutes ago I had nothing. It does seem to work consistently if I'm in the room next to the router. Hopefully Verizon comes up with a solution.
You wouldn't happen to be having Kernel Panics when waking your MBP from sleep, too, would you?

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I started off with only the two PCs and my internet connection never had a problem and I was doing everything from: on the internet to downloading.
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Hi Guys, I bough my Mac almost two years ago. All this time I have experienced the same issue. There are tons of discussions re this issue in the internet. Unfortunately, Apple has done nothing to fix it. I have tried a lot of different options, but they work no longer then 1-2 days. The official fix - does not exist so far. It is quit strange, isn't? I can share my experience: if you go to AirPort Utility - Manual Setup - Wireless and then change Channel, it could help you till the moment you restart your computer; next time you need to repeat it again. It takes 2 minutes. Not sure that it would work for you but you could give it a try. Well, not the best option. Anyway Apple must fix it asap! Hello Apple, do you hear us? Good luck.

I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my MacBook. Constantly dropping internet connection or message "error connecting to the network" comes up. No wireless connectivity issues with windows 7 laptop or iphone.

I have a MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The last few weeks it has been constantly dropping internet connection, and one of these messages appear on the page: "Safari cannot open this page because the server where this page is located isn't responding" or "Safari cannot open this page because you are not connected to the internet" comes up. I will check Wifi and I am connected. No wifi connectivity issues with iphone or windows 7 laptop, this doesn't happen with either of those devices. I have unplugged and reset router, cleared cache, still happening. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hi BCLor!
Try using the suggested steps in the following article to help you troubleshoot this issue with your Wi-Fi connection:
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

MacBook loses wireless connection when iPod touch connects to network

hi
ever since upgrading to 10.5.5. on my MacBook i've had the "intermittent network connection" problems that have been described and discussed (without any real solution from what i can see) in another thread.
PROBLEM: every couple of minutes my MacBook loses connectivity to the network - the AirPort icon still says that i'm connected, albeit with one less bar than before, but i can't connect to anywhere, not even to the wireless router - and to re-establish a connection i need to switch off AirPort, switch it back on, it will then reconnect, and after two minutes or so i have to do it all over again because the network connection drops again.
NOVEL OBSERVATION 1: reinstalling the 10.5.5. combo system updater helped somewhat. i used to get an error in system.log about there being too many state transitions on the wireless network and about network traffic reduction measures being taken to overcome this problem, but after reinstalling the 10.5.5. combo system updater this message never appears in the logs and I get kicked off only sometimes (see what i say in point 2 below)
NOVEL OBSERVATION 2: now my MacBook will only lose its connection to the net if i switch on my iPod Touch and switch its wireless interface on. in fact, the only way to avoid the MacBook getting constantly disconnected is to make sure that the wireless interface on the Touch is switched off in the Touch's system preferences; if I just sleep the Touch (top button) without switching off its wireless network interface first in its System Preferences, then the MacBook will keep disconnecting even while the Touch is in sleep mode (presumably the Touch keeps polling the network or something, even while it's in sleep mode).
DIAGNOSTIC NOTE 1: I have another wireless device (my Nokia E51, which has wifi capabilities) and if I connect it to the wireless interface then the MacBook's connection isn't dropped - i.e. the MacBook only loses its wireless connection when my iPod Touch connects to the wireless network.
DIAGNOSTIC NOTE 2: I have upgraded my wireless router (before I had a Linksys WRT-54GC, now I have a Netgear WGR614v9) but that has made no difference.
DIAGNOSTIC NOTE 3: I have also tried altering the router's settings (i have played around a_lot with this, trying every combination I could think of - e.g. staple down particular devices to particular ip addresses, use only 802.11g versus automatic b/g, etc) but that has made no difference either.
RANT:
The only thing that prevents these disconnections from occurring is to keep the iPod Touch's wireless switched off, which ***** because if I'm in the kitchen I can't have it switched on to monitor my email (yes, I've no life, i hang around waiting for emails), or if I go have a lie down and want to check out stuff on the net, or to browse the iTunes music store or whatever, then I know that my connecting my iPod Touch the computer will be disconnected.
This obviously *****, right? And a lot of people are having wireless problems with their MacBooks, right? And these problems seem to have been around for over a year, right?
So why hasn't Apple solved this problem yet? Or am I just being melodramatic?
Your thoughts on any or all of the above, or flames if that's your preferred method of communicating, are invited. =)
Cheers
dr.colekat

Having the same problem here. As a first time mac user, Apple has certainly made a bad first impression.
For me, the issue seems to occur when transferring files between computers that are connected to the same access point (when transferring files from wired computers on the network there is no issue). My vista laptop and every laptop I have tried has worked perfectly fine with this access point so I am 100% convinced it is the mac. Basically when I copy the files, after about 100mb, I am unable to access anything on the local network or internet until I restart Airport. The weird thing is that even though I am unable to access anything, the airport utility says it is connected. I might also note that the wireless signal strength is full.
If I can't get this figured out in a few days, this computer is going back to the store where it came from and I will officially label myself anti-mac. This type of issue is just unacceptable for something so main stream.

HP Officejet Pro 8500 a910 wireless connectivity issues?

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I bought my 13 inch macbook pro 1 week ago and I've had wireless connection problems from day 2 (I think after the updates).
Problems include:
- Safari cannot connect to the internet for 5~10 minutes after I turn it on, whether it be from sleep mode or completely off or restart (the fastest connection I got after turning it on was about 40 seconds)
- Loading takes ridiculously long and eventually Safari cannot find the server
- Airport signal (on the top right hand corner) is always full when it is not working
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However, when the wireless connection stabilizes, Airport Signal is 2~3 bars full and internet works SOOO well and I love it so much when it does. But the problem is that it stabilizes like 30 minutes to never after I turn it on and it makes me so mad I want to explode this piece of crap in the microwave.
So I've called apple support, and they made me try four things:
1. Reset modem, router, and computer
2. Delete caches, reset Safari
3. Putting Airport first on the Service Order and resetting DHCP Lease
4. Connecting with Ethernet Cable then resetting the computer
None of these worked, and I'm suspecting that the cause of the problem is the hardware (not the aluminum body that's just bs) because my router and modem are working fine (my other samsung laptop is working perfectly). I don't think the problem lies in my network settings either because I did exactly what the Apple technicians told me to do. So after Appleguy made me try all 4 of those diagnostics, he told me to contact my router company NETGEAR because he thinks nothing is wrong with the mac hardware, so I did. The NETGEAR lady told me if one laptop is working and another isn't, there is nothing wrong with the router. So if nothing is wrong with my hardware, software, router, modem, ISP... Why do I have wireless issues????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Same thing here.
I've got a Macbook Pro 15" bought 6 weeks ago, airport express bought about a year ago. All updated with latest software/firmware, etc. Problems include:
-Sometimes when i pull down the network list, my network isn't even there, yet i'm still connected to it. My airport is appx 10 feet away in an open area.
-usually after opening safari or firefox for the first time upon sleep, restart, or just opening the program after i had quit it, it is miserably slow. it takes about 2 minutes for pages like msn.com to load. finally when they do, its faster than you can imagine. that lasts for about a minute. then its slow again.
-when logged into ichat and i send messages, i would sometimes get a "connection timeout" message. my buddy would end up getting the message about 5 minutes later.
My iphone and dell laptop work fine. i haven't tried running parallels, but if bootcamp works, so should prlls.
I've reset the modem about 20 times. i've reset the airport about 20 times. i even re-installed my OS on the mac and nothing has done it.
Weird thing is that i've had my mac for 6 weeks, and this problem surfaced only 3 days ago.
Clearly its not an issue of any of our ISP's. Due to the fact that this only started for me 3 dyas ago, i'm hopeful that its only a software problem and not something else. Hopefully apple will a) ADMIT THEY HAVE A PROBLEM HERE and b) FIX IT.

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So I have a 15" Macbook Pro. About two months ago I started having issues connecting it on my network at work. Every other 15" MacBook pro is having the same issue. When the wireless connects, it often comes back with a connection timeout, or it connects to the router, and DHCP doesn't give it an IP addess. Static IP doesn't work. There are the odd place where I can connect regularly, but they are few and far between. I have great singnal strength, but it's just really flaky.
My network Admin can't figure it out. all the PCs are working fine, and even MacBooks and 13" Macbook Pros are working. The problem seems to be common to MacBook Pro 15", AppleTV, iPad. Anyone got any ideas?

Hello Sepehr.E,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with Wi-Fi on your MacBook Pro. I would be concerned about this too.
I'm not sure if you have tried these steps yet, but I recommend following the steps in the following article to resolve an issue like the one you described:
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Community.
Best,
Sheila M.

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I have an Airport Extreme I am using with a Fios router (with the Fios wireless deactivated).
Prior to Fios, I used it with Comcast and never had the following issues:
When accessing the web from any of my Macs after a period of sleep or other disuse, the browsers return a "not connected to the internet" message (this is after the machine has returned to service for a time-- not immediately after waking).
Waiting a few more seconds and then trying again usually connects normally. Again, never did that with Comcast-- on and connected was on and connected.
AppleTV is almost NEVER connected when I go to watch it after a period of disuse. Usually, all maner of resets/restarts are required to get everything talking. I have both an older white ATV as well as the newest black model.
I should add that the Verizon tech knew next to nothing about Apple products when he came out. I ended up going on-line and reading all kinds of posts and arriving at my current configuration. Networking has always been a black hole in my Mac knowledge, so, rather than put all the blame on Verizon, I will say it's highly likely my set-up is not optimal.
Does anyone know how best to set-up this combination? I don't really even know how to tell you how I set mine up to begin with!

Unfortunately, if you have Fios, you really are forced into using their equipment and will have to configure the AirPort Extreme in Bridge Mode to work correctly with the Fios gateway.
Check to verify if the AirPort Extreme is set to operate in Bridge Mode, which would be the correct configuration for your setup.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click the AirPort Extreme and then click Manual Setup
Click the Internet icon at the top of the window
The setting for Connection Sharing should be "Off (Bridge Mode)"
Is that the case?

HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One Wireless connection issue.

We are using the HP 6600 now for 6 months and sice a few weeks we have some issues with the printer.
situation:
1 - HP 6600 printer
1 - Wireless Router
3 - Computers connected to the router
What we did:
Updated the firmware
Manual IP
Put channel from router to 11
Put it closer to the router (1 meter instead of 3)
HP docter, everything is fine (if connection is lost, answer "No network connection to your device"
But all above is not the solution.
When the printer is offline we just switch it off and on and it will work again for a couple of hours. It looks that the connection is lost when it is going to sleep/hybernate.
Also one of my customers has exactly the same problem, also did all above and didnt fix anything. This question is for me quite urgent because i am going on holidays in 2 days, my father in LAW cannot work without the printer and is getting upset this all this.
Any advices?

Arjan_NL
If I understand you correctly the printers blue light is flashing and you cannot see your printer on the network. I recommend that you reset the network defaults to factory settings on the printer.
To reset the network defaults
-touch Setup Menu
-touch Network
-touch Restore Network Defaults
Then use the Wireless Setup Wizard to connect the printer to the network.
To run wireless setup
-touch Setup
-touch Network
-touch Wireless Setup Wizard
follow the on screen instructions to set the printer up on the network. You will need the WPA password or security key for the router to do this.
Follow the steps in this document Printer Does Not Maintain Wireless Connection to set a static IP address for the printer. This should help you maintain a better wireless connection.
Keep me posted and let me know if you need further assistance.
I worked on behalf of HP.

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