Wireless Problems with my Macbook Pro
I recently bought an Apple Macbook Pro, and I have been experiencing wireless connection issues. I have a D-Link DIR 655, and it is running in the mixed mode (wireless n and wireless g). The problem that I am experiencing is that my Macbook Pro loses connection with my router every once in awhile. But, here is the wierd part. My Macbook Pro shows that it never loses connection in the menu bar. In addition, if I wait about 1 minute, my internet starts working again. I know that it has to be losing connection because when I have lost connection to the internet, I tried accessing the router page, but it would not display. Lastly, I do have a baby monitor and a 5.8 GHz wireless phone. But, I have a Windows machine that uses this router and is on the wireless n spectrum, and it has never dropped a connection. Also, I have many other wireless g devices, and they have never dropped a connection. So, I don't believe it is the router. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I just purchased a new 15" MacBook Pro and I'm so frustrated with the wireless I want to throw it out the window. I have 3 Apple notebooks at home: a 2 year old white MacBook, a 1 year old 17" MacBook Pro, and this new MacBook Pro. I can put them side by side and see how badly the wireless capabilities have deteriorated with the newer computers. The old white MacBook can catch any signal, the 17" needs to be closer and aimed just so. My new MacBook sometimes shows full signal strength but simple won't make connections where both the other MacBooks work fine. **** this. I've been a loyal Apple fan since I made the switch two years ago. But this is about the end. Anyone from Apple listening?
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Wireless problems with a Macbook?
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Can someone explain this?Im begining to think it's poor design, or cheaper
components.
I have a latest revision macbook and a old Powerbook
17" G4...
when i sit them side by side in my living room with
my airport express, the NEW macbook will show 3-4
bars, and my powerbook is ALWAYS full.
I think im gonna return the macbook.
Why would you return the Macbook for one less bar than a Powerbook? You might consider that the signal is measured differently between a Powerbook and a Macbook. What may be full bars on the Powerbook is 4 bars on a Macbook. If they perform the same what difference do the number of bars make?
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You can press the power button down to force a hardware shutdown, then reboot holding the shift key down on a wired or built in keyboard, this will disable them and you go around and update your third party software.
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How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
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There has to be a solution.
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Help!
i had a problem with my macbook pro: on tuesday 16th (agoust, 2011) I went to a friend's house and show her some document i had in my computer, then i turned off my mac and it asked me: "there are some actualizations available, do you want to update before turn off?" i clicked on yes, waited for update and then the macbook turned off. When I got back home, I tried to turn it on again.... but nothing: it didn't sound baaaammmmm as allways, it didn't reacted. I tried again, but useless.
The next day i went to one of these "authorized management centers", but they coudn't say anything or do anything about it. First they told me the problem was the battery, then the hard disk, then the video card... but don't. I left my mac there by two weeks, hoping they could help me, but they didn't. So I picked it up and go to other place.
The rare thing is that i have just two years with my mac, and i didn't do anything stupid on it (didn't fall, get wet, microwave, hot, shocked, hit or anything) It just stopped working. Two times it turned on. But if not, it's the same story:
When i pushed the button to turn on, sounds like baaaaaammmm, but then again, and again, and again, and the screen doesn't get blue or anything, it appears a foder with a "?" and then the computer turns off...
Im wondering if this is a problem on this computers, because some of my friends told me things much like that that happened with their macbooks.
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I have a problem with using MacBook Pro as wifi router when connected to ethernet
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