Yet another Newbee having Airport problems

I am new to mac and also my macbook. I have been reading thru the discussions trying to find an answer to my problem. I believe I am not alone! I have a Belkin modem/router and although all my setups say I have Airport connection, I can open Internet Connect and select Airport and my network and it say that I have connection. But as soon as I loose the Ethernet cable.. guess what... No connection!!! PLEASE someone help the NewBee Aussie!

Well I have several macs (and PCs) of different kinds all connecting happily to a number or wireless networks. So OSX works fine so dont expect any 'fix' from Apple anytime soon because there isn't anything for them to fix! I suppose there is an outside chance that there is a problem with your Macbooks wireless card but I think it unlikely, you'd have to try to connect to someone else's network to be sure. In my experience if the airport icon in the menu bar shows you are connected but you can't get an IP address this is almost always either a router glitch which will normally go away if you restart it, or a password problem which should be reported by OSX but often isn't. Firstly I would check the router and its settings. Unfortunately the newer the router the more mechanisms it will probably have to stop people connecting so a good strategy is to start with no security and take it step by step from there. Also make sure you have the latest firmware upgrade applied from the manufacturers website, there usually will be one. 'Auto' -ing everything that can is also a good starting point. If your router keeps logs of traffic enabling these can provide a useful source of diagnostics. Of course once it is working you must introduce at least some form of encryption for your own peace of mind, which brings me neatly on to the next point: passwords. There is a big problem with WEP (well several actually!) in that the way the router translates an english phrase into hex is not always the same as the way the mac does it. So you either need to enter the same hex string into the router and the mac (prefixed by $ for the mac, this is what tells it it is getting hex), or sometimes you can see the hex equivalent generated by the router and then just type that in to the mac. The hex key will be 26 characters long for 128bit WEP eg 23f45fa1f1ba91a6241f7f0eff However if there is not a good reason not to use WPA or WPA2 (such as other older kit you need to connect) then this is much better. Set your router to WPA-PSK (TKIP) or WPA2-PSK (AES) and the Mac will recognise what is required and ask you for the passphrase. In this case you CAN use the same english language phrase in the router and the mac as it always seems to work.
Finally we need to make sure that any bad stuff we've done before is not messing us up now. Trashing the preferences as described in the earlier post is a good plan. Also open your keychain with the KeychainAccess utility (in yr Utilities folder) and delete any wireless network entries that have been saved in there. Stick with it it can be sorted out its just a matter of working methodically step by step until you are successful.

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heather91 wrote:
i dont think it has to do with the router. its not just at home that it happens. it also happens when i use a wireless connection at school, or any other place.
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How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
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