WiFi Dropping issue with Lion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got off phone with support and they informed me it has to be my router causing the issue. Now I just bought the iMac on sunday and its my first Mac. My PC had no problems with the network or the wireless printer, But now I guess my router is bad, Lol. Wonder if anyone else got the problem fixed. New Lion update did not fix my Wifi issue.
Love my new mac! Thats sarcasm
Thank god Apple has 14 day return policy, might need to use that and go buy a HP.

Have to admit I feel your pain. I had an old Netgear that worked great with iPods, MacBooks, in-laws PCs when they visited. Then I upgraded to a new MBP and it wouldn't stay connected. Long story short, I broke down and bought a refurbished dualband Airport Extreme and after a little tweaking it has been running perfectly, including a 5Gz band that is very fast (not any faster on Internet, but home network file transfer is faster). I read volumes of info about this problem and came to the conclusion that either Macs are getting pickier and pickier regarding wireless (innocent answer) or Apple wants us to buy Apple stuff (not so innocent answer). So they got $129 out of me that I felt I shouldn't have had to spend, but it is seamless and works great. And I've also read others who got an Airport Extreme and still had problems. Wireless stuff can be very complex.

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When will apple make an update that is going to fix this problem. You want to buy a new computer that works, I took it into apple and they told me that it is my router, but I know it is the software as there are 100's of blogs and threads about this exact issue occuring only when their computer was updated to Lion.
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Does this problem happen with just your airport base station? Do you have a 3rd party wireless router? Can you duplicate the problem using any wifi access point? Did your computer come with 10.7 preinstalled? Did you purchase the applecare with your computer?

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Hello everyone,
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I had the same setup with the apple BT keyboard and the V270 mouse. I also work with the lid closed and with an external monitor (I bet that you are also using airport)! Both devices seem to intermittently loose connection, and the mouse cursor doesn't track very well. Looking through postings it seems that airport interferes with BT, and the behavior I've seen seems to support this. I stopped using the mouse because I couldn't get it to work adequately. I'v also tried using BT headphones (Motorola HT820) which at best the sound drops out intermittently, and at worse crashes OS X. I'm thinking that BT on the Macbook Pro just marginally works... I'd be curious if you ever had any success with your setup!

My wife has issues with her AOL email and was told to contact Apple about a virus scan. Has anyone else had a similar issue?

My wife has issues with her AOL email and a tech rep told her to contact Apple for a virus scan. Has anyone else had a problem like this?

You forgot to describe the 'issues' but there are no viruses that affect Apple OS X.
You may find this User Tip on Viruses, Trojan Detection and Removal, as well as general Internet Security and Privacy, useful:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2435
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002300.html
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I'm having several of issues with Lion (mostly with Safari).   Wondering if anyone else has these problems. I'm hoping/assuming these will be bugs that Apple will fix with a software update?   Or if therres any fix for them?
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2. Safari freezing up.   Yes, my safari is freezing and I'm needing to force quit every now and then.   Never really had that problem with snow leopard.
3. Swiping to go to my desktop.   When I try to 4 finger swipe to get to my desktop or something (going to the left always), My launchpad keeps coming up. Thats HORRIBLY annoying.   I have to go to my icons and manually turn launchpad off.    This might be my most annoying problem.
4. Getting mission control up with the four fingers swiping up usually takes 2 or 3 swipes,   and also when I'm in mission control and I want to go to something on my desktop (if I have 2 or 3 things open while having mail and safari on full screen), it takes 2 or 3 clicks to select whatever I want to go to.
Overall I really DO like lion. Just don't like those glitches Ive seen so far.   Anyone having the same problems?

Tmilless wrote:
1.   Zoom while in Safari, the 2 finger pinch and zoom feature stops working after a while usually. I used to like the zoom in snow leopard where on a webpage it would zoom you in while keeping the page contents within the screen. You can still accomplish this by doing the command + shortcut. But I really liked the touchpad feature. I don't mind the way the zoom works on safari (zooming in wihtout keeping the page in the screen).   But my problem is it stops working after a certain amount of time.
2. Safari freezing up.   Yes, my safari is freezing and I'm needing to force quit every now and then.   Never really had that problem with snow leopard.
Yes! I see the same! Extremely annoying. And as long as the pinch-zoom works, it's very unstable, and sometimes seems to freeze Safari with a "fuzzy" picture. It doesn't really freeze it, though, I can still use otheropen tabs, and usually a double-tap zoom "wakes" the "frozen tab".

Has New Router or Antenna Helped WiFi Dropping Issues?

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When in the room with the router, everything works great, but once out in the main living room (just down a very short hallway), they get constant dropouts or the computer won't connect at all. I would say it connects maybe 10% of the time. But an old PC laptop, my Android phone, and the living room TiVo all connect perfectly and never drop out, no matter where we walk.
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Hi everyone,
I have a problem while connecting my Samsung HDTV model LNT3242HX with my Mac ever since I upgraded to Lion (I was previously on Snow Leopard).
I'm using a Macbook 2.13 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo (Mid 2009).
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Rusot,
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Share your scanner
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JB2909 wrote:
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Anyone else having repeated wifi connectivity issues with the OSX version 10.8.5?

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HI,
I'm having big issues using Lion in 32bit mode with my new MBP. It will boot ok but then after a seemingly random period of time it will lock. It seems to happen randomly. I thought originally it was an issue with using the FW port and spent some time with an Apple Care engineer and we couldn't fix it. I then re-installed Lion onto an external HD and used this without installing any extra software and it was seeming still happening.
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Thanks
Adam,

then i guess it´s 64 bit mode, using it "out of the box"..... one thing i really like ,this model of the macbook is really quiet, and dosent get as worm as the 2011 i cant hear the fans when doing some dvd ripping and importing/exporting some heavy files and playing some like batman etc , maybe the nvidia chip helps!? my first macbook pro 2009/2010 quiet- 2011 - mac mini ,macbook pro and i had macbook air i7 256 ssd worm and fan noise and then now back to envidia - guit?!
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Hi there,
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I use voip phoe calls a lot using my WIFI, However my AirPort WIFI connection drops-off while I am in the middle of WIFI VOIP calls. This is causing significant disturbance in my family.
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To help eliminate drop-offs you need to ensure that your extended network is operating at its peak bandwidth performance. Base station placement is critical in an extended network. Please check out the following AirPort User Tip for details.

WiFi Dropping issue with Lion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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