Use Interference Robustness option disabling on restarts

I don't know if this is a rare case, but I've been having a problem with the Interference Robustness option. I live in a under a lot of interference, so this option is vital for my internet connection to be as smooth as possible. Although, every time I restart my Mac, this option gets disabled. What can I do to alleviate the situation? Is this a OS X Tiger bug or something? It began to happen all the sudden after updating to the latest patch. Thank you.

Anyone? Please help.

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Got you, many thanks, iFelix!
What I still don't understand is: does it affect the
Base Station's signal? or just the respective
computer's card?
From the Airport menulet, just the card.
You need to use the Airport Admin Utility (wireless options) to enable it on the base station.
And if it boosts the signal, how
come it reduces the range?
You can't boost the total power that a wireless card or base station uses.
Therefore if you increase the signal you have to sacrifice range.
If the total power was say 240, you could have strength 3, range 80 or strength 6 range 40.
iFelix

Use Interference Robustness?

I'm temporarily operating in a place with a LOT of visible wireless access points. Airport is neatly automatically selecting channels, and I'm not noticing any problems, but I'm wondering about the "Use Interference Robustness" check item in the pull-down under the network selection place on the main menu bar.
Can someone tell me what this does and how I might know if I need it? Any side effects? I've tried turning it on but I don't notice any change one way or the other.
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Where is "Use Interference Robustness"?

Hello,
i miss the function "Use Interference Robustness" in Mac OS X Leopard!
Without this i am losing constantly my Airport Connections.
Can anybody help?

Interference robustness has worked well for a number of people not using Apple Airport base stations (such as myself). As it turns out, I have an Airport Express that my iMac under Leopard will not recognize only 2 feet away. Naturally, under Tiger all is still well.
Moving interference robustness under the advanced settings is a real problem for people without Airport base stations as it is now impossible to get to the settings without recognizing a base station.
For example, I had turned on interference robustness during the two minute window that my Airport Express was recognized. Now, since Leopard is so spotty (sorry for the pun), I can't reliably test whether or not that setting helps at all. That said, I can report that my basic internet connection was practically nonexistent prior to implementing interference robustness on my iMac G4.
I'm surprised at Apple for this one - Leopard has been been through what seems like extensive testing, and this pops up! And no response from Apple ...
Steve

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Is there any downside to setting the multicast rate of my new Airport Extreme N to the highest option and enabling interference robustness?
I'm aware that the higher the multicast rate, the lower my range, but I'm usually in the same room as the router. Will this then improve my speeds when transferring large files to the usb-attached network drive or streaming music?

Good question. Tuff to answer. Robustness will slow you up. If you don't have interference why use it. The downloads speed I would think it would not make a difference unless others were using your network.

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Connecting to wiresless network using Interference Robustness

Is it possible to create an Automator workflow that will automatically on startup or login select "Interference Robustness" then select a specific wireless network?
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When I boot up the mac the wireless connection doesn't automatically start. I have to manually turn on "interference robustness" then select my desired wireless network.
Has anyone else experienced this issue and/or have a work around to solve this?

DROP OUT cure! Make sure "Enable Interference Robustness" is Checked!!!

I found the secret button - and now music plays like there's no tomorrow!
Like - I spent at least three weeks - three different routers trying to get my music to stream without drop-outs - to no avail. Then finally I FOUND THE TRICK. Like duh! Read on.
Here's my set up -
3 Airport Express Boxes fed to three separate amps and speakers around the house
1 Apple TV fed to the home theatre
4 Laptops connect wirelessly to the Netgear
1 NAS drive hardwired to the Netgear with all the iTunes Music on it
All connected to 1 Netgear MIMO-G Router via WPA Security
Man this was killing me - with all these variables I couldn't figure out why my music would play OK for a few minutes, then either drop out every minute or so for a few seconds - or just crash my router requiring me to kill its power for 2 seconds. This was killing me. I was about to give up on Apple and get a Roku.
But alas - here's the cure
THERE IS THIS LITTLE TINY CHECK BOX IN THE AIRPORT EXPRESS ADMIN UTILITY -
ON THE AIRPORT TAB - UNDER THE BOX THAT SAYS WIRELESS SECURITY THERE IS A TINY BOX THAT SAYS:
"Enable Interference Robustness"
Click that - and you are in like slim.
I found so many calls for help on this board for drop-outs that I had to just write this post. Good luck to all!
G

Ok, so all i got to say to this setup is wow you are a crazy man lol. First off storing your itunes library on a drive on the network is going to add more latency to your network as each time you try playing a song its having to go from your computer to the router, to the NAS drive, back to the router and then to the airport. However one thing i didnt see or maybe you may have tried i dont know is before using the enable interference robustness option did you try changing the wireless channel on the netgear router? Could just be something is interfering with the current wireless channel that its on. After tinkering with Interference Robustness myself ive found it to be like a Mass Blanket of wireless transmission. Think of you and another person being in a room with a crowd of people and your yelling back info back and forth. Sure you can hear and talk back to the person but your range to hear and speak is greatly reduced meaning if you wanna add any other wireless products that are outside that reduced range your kinda out of luck.

No 'Interference Robustness', HELP! ...?

Hello,
I've recently been given a MacBook Pro, with OS 10.6. It replaces my prehistoric-yet-lovable iBook G4, which was produced in 2003.
I notice that there is no "Use Interference Robustness" capability in the new OS. (This was in the drop-down menu under the internet 'fan') I could use the old disks that came with my old iBook, and go back to the old operating system on the new computer, but it seems silly to go back to an OS from 2003 just to get internet.
I have read a lot of forum posts, including the following:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196815
I am currently working overseas. I've got 4 roommates, and when I try to change channels on the router it screws up their computers. I'll be traveling soon, and I can't lug around an airport to connect to every router I need to connect to. I'll continue to be in densely populated areas, where everyone has got a microave, cordless, router, etc. The new computer 'sees' at least 7 other routers in the apartments around me.
My new MacBook is NOT picking up a signal, not even when it is inches from the router. (To be specific the fan is full: it asks for a router password then briefly connects, then when you try to click on a webpage it simply takes forever to try and connect then eventually times out.) My iBook, using the old operating system, picks up the signal clearly from the other side of the house. (The old laptop has just been sold, so I will have to give it and its disks up soon!)
I know other forum contributors said that the old 'interference robustness' feature was only ever meant to be used with AirPort, but as many other Apple users have confirmed, my old computer never worked without IR, and I never had an AirPort at all.
The router is made by Pirelli (not kidding), but it hardly matters, seeing as I'll be on the go.
Is there any way I can change computer settings to fix my problem?
This oversight on Apple's part seems like the perfect opportunity for a desktop widget or other 3rd-party program, but none seems to exist.
I've been dreaming of a new laptop and OS for years, and while there are some cute features like Photobooth, at first glance 10.6 lags. There are some modifications that I would have expected to see in iTunes as well... but internet is like water or air if you've got to get work done!

I could use the old disks that came with my old iBook, and go back to the old operating system on the new computer…
Good luck with that thought. That's not doable. Your machine won't recognize anything that old. See Don't install old versions and Computer-specific builds for details.
As for the wifi issue, I can't help, since I don't use it, so you'll have to await those gurus to pop in.

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Errors (-50) occured when i was using the purchased option from the Quick Links section in the top right corner of the iTunes homepage in my iTunes application on my computer.

errors (-50) occured when i was using the purchased option from the Quick Links section in the top right corner of the iTunes homepage in my iTunes application on my computer.
what is it?

Quoted from the link I provided you with, in your other post.
These alerts occur due to timeouts or conflicts trying to write a file during download.
If you encounter this issue while accessing iTunes Store:
See iTunes 9: "One Moment Please" or "Error (-50)" message when accessing iTunes Store
If you encounter this issue while while downloading something from the iTunes Store:
Delete your iTunes Downloads folder, located in:
Mac OS X:  ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads Note: "iTunes Media" may appear as "iTunes Music. Also, the tilde (~) refers to your Home directory.
Windows Vista:  \Users\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
Windows 7:  \Users\username\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
Windows XP:  \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
After locating your iTunes Downloads folder:
Quit iTunes.
Delete the Downloads folder on your computer.
Open iTunes.
Choose Store > Check for Available Downloads.
Enter your account name and password.
If you encounter this issue while while downloading Digital Copies using Windows:
Use MSCONFIG (directions for Windows XP and Windows Vista/Windows 7) to disable conflicting software.
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You can turn all of them back on by selecting the Normal Startup option under the General tab of the System Configuration Utility window, but please note that this may cause the issue to reoccur.
If you are able to isolate the issue to a particular third-party software, you may wish to contact them to let them know of the conflict.

Robocopy's /MT option disables /NP option

There seems to be a bug in the Win7 version of Robocopy: the "Multi Threded" options seems to disable "No Progress" option:
robocopy c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\out /nfl /np /mt /e /dcopy:t /r:0 /w:0 /log:Robo-Test.txt
Log:
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows
Started : Sat Dec 12 19:01:10 2009
Source : c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\
Dest : c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\out\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /NFL /S /E /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T /NP /MT:8 /R:0 /W:0
0 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\
New Dir 4 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\1\
100%
0%
100%
100%
100%
New Dir 3 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\2\
100%
100%
100%
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 3 2 1 0 0 0
Files : 7 7 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 33.13 m 33.13 m 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00
Ended : Sat Dec 12 19:01:10 2009
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robocopy c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\out /nfl /np /e /dcopy:t /r:0 /w:0 /log:Robo-Test.txt
Log:
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows
Started : Sat Dec 12 19:04:07 2009
Source : c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\
Dest : c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\out\
Files : *.*
Options : *.* /NFL /S /E /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T /NP /R:0 /W:0
0 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\
New Dir 4 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\1\
New Dir 3 c:\users\Public\Robocopy-Test\in\2\
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 3 2 1 0 0 0
Files : 7 7 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 33.13 m 33.13 m 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00
Speed : 579033733 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 33132.575 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Sat Dec 12 19:04:07 2009
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Hi Is_mstn,
Yes, we can repro this issue on my side. And we have added it into our bug database.
Thank you for reporting it. I think it should be fixed soon. :)
Thanks again.
Hi Zhang, can you report on if this ever is going to get resolved. As you can see many people are still seeing the problem, as is I.
Would be nice if you, or someone from Microsoft could provide some feedback.
Cheers,
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Can't Enable interference robustness

in Sytem Preferences-->Network-->Airport-->Options...
The "Enable interference robustness" check box is greyed out and can not be selected. Also, the option "Remember any network this computer has joined" is checked, but is also greyed out. I also do not have the option "Enable interference robustness" in the Airport status menu bar at all.
All the options are available and working on my wifes G4 ibook connected to the same base station.
The option "Enable interference robustness" is checked in the base station configuration portion of the Airport Admin Utility.
I've repaired permissions but the option is still greyed out.
Any ideas?
G4 MDD Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Try the following, in order, until resolved:
1. Create a New User Account
- Create a new user account.
-- System Preferences > Accounts
-- Click "+" to add a new account
- Log off, then log back on with the new user account.
- Try connecting with the AirPort.
2. Move System Configuration Files
(Note: You will have to reestablish your network connections settings.)
- Go to /Library/Preferences
- Move the SystemConfiguration folder and com.apple.networkConfig.plist file to the desktop.
- Restart your Mac. (Note: OS X will rebuild the files that are now sitting on your desktop. If this doesn't resolve the issue, you can move the folder & .plist file back to it's original location.)

Is there an issue with Safari in Iphones and Ipads where it does not recognize option disabled="disabled" tag properly?

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Hi...
I have run into a peculiar problem with the Safari browser on mobile platforms (IPad, IPod, IPhone) which I hope I can find a solution for in this community.
Now, if we browse to the above link in Safari using a desktop or a laptop, there are no problems at all, but if we browse to the above link using an IPhone or an Ipad, then we have a problem
At the top of this window you'll see the following:
Apple Support Communities > Mac OS & System Software > Safari > Discussions
This the Safari forum for the Mac OS X.
Better that you post your topic here > Developer Forums: Apple Support Communities
I do see on my iPad what you are rreferring to. But you shoudl get the feedback you need in the developer forum.

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