Mountain Lion wifi WEP security connection issues

After installing Mountain Lion I experienced connection issues with my linksys router when waking from sleep. After trying numerous recommended fixes that would only work for a short period of time I have come across a fix that resolved all issues.
1. Login to your router and changed from WEP to WAP security settings.
2. In network preferences>advanced; delete the previous WEP network from your preferred networks.
3. Open Keychain Access (spotlight search) and delete the Airport network password from both login and system.
4. Search for new wifi networks and select the new WAP connection to your router.
This has completely resolved my issue and forced my lazy self to upgrade from the outdated WEP secutiry protocol to WAP.
Hope this helps anybody experiencing this issue.

I think you mean WPA, i.e. WPA2 (personal) for best security, compatibility and performance (or is Linksys different?)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199?viewlocale=en_US

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Folks, wanted to recap this as I am finding the problem much more broad than my original post (here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19123146#19123146). Here's my setup:
MacBook Air 13", Mid 2011
Mountain Lion
Wifi Problems, cannot connect to open wi-fi and Sprint hot spot.
CAN connect to Time Capsule (at least I could before I started futzing with my setup while on the road)
here's what I've done so far:
Reset SMC
Zapped PRAM
Reduced MTU to 1300
Set hotspot to 802.11g only
Set IPv6 to Local-link only
Set up a new user account, no connection there either
Repair disk
Repair disk permissions
Removed WiFi in networking control panel and re-add.
Remove the network from control panel AND remove keys from Keychain
What I have not done but will try later:
Reinstall ML
Disable WMM
Observations:
ML seems to think there is a connection to the wi-fi, but it can never get an IP address
Using a static IP on the network doesn't help the problem
My hotspot never really registers the MBA as a connection

Tell you what worked for me .. finally.
Had two Apple technicians on the case - over the phone. Have to say, those guys are awesome! - with patience of saints! But to the point! As there was nothing obviously wrong with operating system, they promised to call me back the following day but suggested talking to my Internet Service Provider about the router (D-Link router). The ISP remoted to my iMac and logged into router site and changed channel selection from automatic to manual. He chose channel 13, and suddenly my MBA connected and has been connecting smoothly ever since. The reasons I had problems was that there was over 10 available wi-fi networks in my flat, some of which showed as having stronger signal than my own. The ISP guy told me this, increasingly, becomes and issue, especially in blocks of flats - the ether is filled with wi-fi networks to the point of saturation. He also said, his choice of channel 13 was just a fluke and it might turn out I'd have to change it again.
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My iMac running Mountain lion repeatedly doesn't connect o my BellAliant email accounts....Bell says it's Apples issue not theirs...thoughts?

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There isn't a script.
Mail connects to any standard email server.
Open the Connection Doctor from the Window menu.
Click Show Details and Check Again.
What errors does it post trying to connect to your email provider.
I dont' think there is any personal information in the output, but you might want to sanitize the output in a text editor before posting the output here in case there is a login user name or something like that.

After updating my mac from snow leopard to mountain lion, i can not connect to the internet anymore

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Anyone know what is wrong with it??
Is something wrong with mountain lion or the wifi itself????
HELP PLEASE!!
I need to use the internet desperately but i cant...
Thank you so much xxx

Hi galleryskins,
The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Click on the link below to see more details and screenshots.
I've quoted some helpful highlights for you:
OS X Mountain Lion: Zoom content on the screen
Zoom with a mouse or trackpad
To zoom in and out, hold down the modifier key you specified while you perform the scroll gesture.
For example, if you have a trackpad and used the default settings, zoom in by holding down the Control (^) key while you drag two fingers up on the trackpad. Zoom out by holding down the Control key while you drag two fingers down on the trackpad.
If you chose Picture-in-picture zooming, a window appears near the mouse cursor with the magnified image. If you chose Fullscreen zooming, the entire screen displays the magnified image.
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
- Judy

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5C:AF:04:82:2D:3A
inet6 addr: fe80::5eaf:4ff:fe82:2d3a/64 Scope:Link
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Not knowing how much RAM is installed in your iMac, your iMac can take a total of 8 GBs of RAM.
Before upgrading to Mountain Lion, I would strongly suggest installing the maximum 8 GBs of RAM.
Correct and reliable Mac RAM can be purchased from online Mac RAM sources Crucial memory or OWC (macsales.com).
Here is OWC's link to your model iMac and the RAM modules you will need.macsales
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/8566DDR3S8GP/
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Before installing, it would be prudent to make a backup copy of all of your important data or your entire current system. Either using, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives.
This is too insure protection of your data in case something goes wrong with the install of OS X Mountain Lion.
Good Luck!

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Just paid US 99.00 for Apple TV plus US 19.99 to Mountain Lion for nothing @?$%& !!!!
Back again to mini display to hdmi cable.
could you help me????

It is stated that mirroring requires recent hardware (2011 or later)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5404
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I solved the problem, with the help of a friend!
Turns out, even though Messages in Mountain Lion won't prompt you about this in any way, there is a difference between your @mac.com email and your @me.com email.
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As soon as I added a new account inside Messages on Mountain Lion with @me.com I could reconnect and all is fine.
Apple, this is a lot less obvious to the end user than you might think. You have switched online services a few time and it always gets better and better. But Messages in Mountain Lion should prompt the user to add the @me.com address if this is required to use the software!

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5.6 doesn't work with Mountain Lion, so am I stuck?
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Ok. This is super frustrating. Its been three generations now since this wifi issue. I have mid 2010 MBP with broadcom drivers. The wifi wont pass traffic with cisco APs. The only fix is disable 11n rates then only it will connect. I had to downgrade the driver to 10.61 etc to fix that issue. Today i upgraded to mountain lion and surprise.... My wifi is pretty much useless... Pings to default gateway are pn an avg 4ms and good minutes of ping losses..
This is just not acceptable. This is stupid and lame and apple nees to fix this pronto..
Geez apple is making billions of revenue and freaking cannot fix a stupid driver issue... I want my money back... And above all give me my time back which i spent to tshoot this problem...

This is on Mountain Lion drivers
Ping has started…
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.745 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.297 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.810 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.777 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=4.969 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3.756 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=15.632 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.284 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=94.444 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=48.521 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=9.046 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.527 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=3.842 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=2.336 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=1.485 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=1.183 ms
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64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=57 ttl=64 time=1.015 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=58 ttl=64 time=1.297 ms
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type:    AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
Firmware Version:    Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.81.20)
this is after the downgrade
Ping has started…
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.348 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.179 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.385 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.916 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.937 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.252 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.024 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.988 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.960 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.020 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1.706 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.219 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=0.980 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1.170 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=1.144 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=1.470 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=1.359 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=1.143 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=1.218 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=1.395 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=1.197 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=0.945 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=1.092 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=1.383 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=24 ttl=64 time=1.200 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=25 ttl=64 time=0.981 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=26 ttl=64 time=1.425 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=27 ttl=64 time=1.450 ms
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type:    AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
Firmware Version:    Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.16.1)
I hope Apple developers are reading this....
and its about time you start admitting that there is an issue here. Also, publicly available bugs can be useful here as well...

Mountain lion wifi is not working properly

After installing the Mountain Lion in my imac late 2011 model, 27", it started to show wifi errors. I tried to restart the system to see if the wifi connects back or not. It shows as connected but not possible to browse the net.
I then turned-off & turned-on the wifi alone and I found it got connected and was able to browse. Few minutes after the browsing the wifi connection went off and was not able to browse.
I repeated the same rectification method and was able to get back to the web browsing. Several times since mt. Lion is installed I experienced and it is now three days.
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Thanks

Hello you all,
I also had the problem of a disconnecting wifi while my imac was sleeping. I did not have the reconnecting issue after sleep, but the lost connection issue during sleep which made it impossible to reach my imac for things like homesharing, apple tv or remote desktop. I have a late 2012 iMac with a clean ML 10.8.2 on it and wirelessly connected to an apple time capsule (same as an airport extreme). My partner has a mid 2007 iMac, also with an ML 10.8.2 on it.
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Eventually I solved my problem with these steps and now it works as a charm. I can still find the iMac with the remote app, even after 12 hours of sleep:
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1. Cleaned all the wifi passwords in keychain on my iMac
2. Created a new network location in system preferences
3. In this location I deleted the bluetooth pan and bluetooth dun connection.
4. In this location I changed the preferred connection-order to wifi on #1 and ethernet on #2.
5. Restarted my iMac.
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I installed Mountain Lion on my mac mini and have been having intermittent WiFi problems ever since. It seems to be getting worse, connection is now being dropped several times an hour as opposed to several times a day. I have tried all the suggestions that have been put forth with no luck. My iPhone can use the WiFi with no problems. What I have found that seems to work everytime is to go into the Network system preferences, turn WiFi off, and then immediately turn it back on. I am using the most recent Apple Airport Extreme. I urge Apple to fix this bug quickly.

Don't know what to tell you, but I also have an AEBS-Gen5 with a MBP Retina and Mac Mini using WiFi. Both are running Mountain Lion and I don't have any WiFi connection issues. Two iPhones in the household use WiFi with no issues along with a printer and 2 Windows 7 laptops.
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