Wireless issue, not sure what to do...
Hi all,
Seen lots of notes on here about wireless problems and seen many answers ranging from "roll back to 1.5.1" to "buy a new router", etc. All go advice I'm sure, but I would like to hear what you folks think of my issue and if there is an answer that I missed that could help me.
The problem is with my 17in Powerbook G4. It's a little over 3 years old (read:just out of Applecare), and before upgrading to Leopard the wireless worked beautifully with my linksys router at home, the wireless at work, at school and on the road.
However... when I upgraded to Leopard I noticed it seemed... flakey. When I updated to 5.2 it has become almost unbearably bad. It connects about 90% of the time to my home network with no problem, my school network often takes several computer restarts before it will even SEE the network, let alone join it which can be a 20 minute process of clicking the network, watching it do nothing, repeating for a while until it eventually connects.
Work is very similar to school.
So what I am pondering is, is this a Leopard problem? Is it a wireless card problem? Something I don't even know about?
The solutions I see are:
1) Roll back, possibly to Tiger? BTMM doesn't work (well it did until 5.2, now it NEVER works on ANY network) and that was the main reason I bought Leopard).
2) Get a new wireless card? Would this cost me an arm and a leg without Applecare?
3) Something I don't know?
Any help would be very much appreciated, I am at my wits end, my work productivity and school productivity are down and I find that I swear much more often than I used to, and as a student in Seminary it's frowned on to say the least;) Plus it looks bad to all the windows people who connect with ease and my poor Mac is struggling to even see that network!
Anyway, thanks in advance, I am going to post this in the powerbook forums in case it's a powerbook issue instead of a Leopard issue, but I tend to think it is the latter.
Thanks,
Stephen
Hi.
I don't think its a hardware issue. It seems to be some network settings getting corrupted.
Well, lets try these steps and see how it works.
Create New Location:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8322.html
Zap the PRAM:
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Good Luck
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