MBP wireless strangeness 88 Responses

Last post: 2 years ago | Thread started: Jan 11, 10, 8 a.m.

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• flashbender

  So suddenly my faithful workhorse started throwing up "server not found" errors about every 5 minutes. At first I thought this was a connectivity issue or something was wrong with my wireless card an/or antennae - like it was lose or something.

  Through testing I found that if I turned airport off and then back on, it would work fine for anywhere from 4 - 30 minutes before the issue came back.

  But then I notice that while it is telling me "server not found" it is still happily downloading at a pretty good rate. Which implies that it is still connected just fine. IT just doesn't want to connect to any new servers.

  So this leads me to suspect it has something to do with it either losing its connection to the DNS server or something along those lines.

  anyone have anything like this in the past, thoughts on how to fix it, or tools for troubleshooting airport?

  running OSX 10.5.8 / 2.4Ghx / 4GB

  the machine is about 3 years old.

  Jan 11, 10, 8 a.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  I should also add that the other 3 computers in the flat work fine on wireless.

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 8 a.m. – Permalink

• pylon

  Clear browser cache. Restart. Repair Permissions.

  Use OpenDNS for your name servers? https://www.opendns.com/

  • yeah, I should have said I repaired permissions and cleared the PRAM
    I'll look into opendns. thanks!– flashbender

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 8:01 a.m. – Permalink

• dropdown

  I had this issues a few weeks ago. It actually turned out to be the ISP's line into my house that had low power.

  • < useless based on your second post.– dropdown1/2

    embarrassing for a 6 yeard old dell to work when mine doesn't– flashbender2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink

• BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD

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  Set a unique IP, something huge like 192.168.1.98, could be another computer trying to nick your IP and getting you kicked off the router.

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 8:58 a.m. – Permalink

• BattleAxe

  ^ espceially if you have a wifi enabled mobile device they can all be fighting for IP's , a good old power cycle could do the trick , power down all cpu's unplug router and modem

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 9:06 a.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  after looking into a few other things, one popular theory on the webz is another router close by broadcasting on the same channel.

  I like the idea of manually setting a high IP, I will give that a shot.

  I powered cycled my machine, and the router, but not any of the others, I'll have a big shut down party followed by a race to see who boots up the fastest.

  • So why don't you try changing the channel on the router?– chow

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 9:09 a.m. – Permalink

• fyoucher1

  Think there was a software update for something like this but specifically with using Airport a few days ago. Might be work checking into.

  • thanks!
    – flashbender

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 9:40 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  Dude, just get a Mac, Okay

  

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  Dog-earJan 11, 10, 10:06 a.m. – Permalink