Windows 7 notebook prevents other devices from joining network
hey,
i've nosed around the web and the apple forums and haven't turned up a possible answer so here goes a new thread.
i have (and have had) a 100% apple ecosystem at home for years w/ no trouble: airport extreme (recently replaced a flying saucer with whatever was current as of June '11), three extremes (two from the g-only era, one newer n model, all configured to "connect to wifi network") and iphones, an ipad, and macbook pros. hunky dory, no problems for literally years.
this summer, family came to live with us and spoiled the pot with an Acer laptop running win 7 sp1 (double checking everything was up to date was the first thing i checked). w/ this new addition to our family of electronics i've had the following problem:
the windows 7 machine will stay connected to the network fine but any of the other apple devices that try to connect can't. this is true of iphones, ipad, and macbook pros (4 of them) running either Snow Leopard (up to date) or Lion (up to date). the extreme has not crashed, it's just not connecting any other devices --i.e. the windown lappy is connected and working fine.
i end up having to reboot the extreme and then things are fine. often, the windows 7 laptop is being used for skype, so there's steady traffic to it, even when other devices can't connect. the SSID is hidden, i've been flipping between WPA2 only or WPA/WPA2 which seems slightly more robust. and the windows laptop is a personal machine, not configured to connect to windows domains.
any thoughts or ideas on how to resolve things so i don't need to reboot my extreme daily would be appreciated.
Just a thought, maybe un-hide your network's SSID (hiding it is of little security value anyway). For some reason, and I don't know this to be true, but my experience with Apple products is that a hidden SSID causes wi-fi connection problems with Apple clients (but perhaps only when there's a Windows machine in the mix?)
On my network (currently a Linksys router, soon to be AirPort Extreme) if I hide the SSID then only my Windows boxes will reliably connect -- the iPhone, iPod, and Mac all go "duh?" and lose connection. Maybe in an all-Apple network this doesn't happen, but based on my experience and that of others I'm wondering if its your hidden SSID that's causing the problem.
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