PROBLEM WITH Laptop Dropping CONNECTION to my Airport Extreme
PROBLEM WITH KEEPING CONNECTION To WiFi NETWORK I have a MacBook Pro, MacBookPro4,1, Processor Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6 GHz I loose connection with my Airport extreme it will just drop the connection. Up in the menu bar where it show thesignal strength... when it drops the connection it shows "NO NETWORK SELECTED". The only way for me to reconnect thru wifi is to SHUT DOWN my Laptop and start it back up. Then it will hold for just a little longer and drop it again. Very AGGRIVATING. Is there a possibility that my Airport Card in my Laptop is going bad or what? Gerrrrrrrrrrr Seems to do it more when I am on Facebook but that just may be because Im on FB a lot.. LOL And I already did the proceedure with going into the Utilities and accessing the Keychain and setting up Network again but it does not correct the problem. HELP!!
You appear to have a solid radio connection to the Base Station.
1) Remove unwanted networks from the list of "known" networks under
System preferences > WiFi/Airport > (Advanced) > | Airport/WiFi pane ...
2) System preferences > WiFi/Airport ...
... check [√] Ask to join new networks
"Known networks will be joined automatically.
If no known networks are available, you will
be asked before joining a new network."
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