stupid airport
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- jox
My wireless connection keeps dropping. I reconnect and stay connected for about 10 seconds till it drops again. What's going on? I have two other non-wirelessly connected computers running fine connected through the same router.
I can see the network and the name in the airport prefs but when I try to access it it says an error has occured. It started two days ago when it happened once, where I got back up immediately once I reconnected. Today I can't seem to get back out on the internets unless I use a cord.
Computers are evil.
- jox0
..yeah, X 10.39, PBG4.. D-link 604 router.
- ********0
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/…
lets rat out on NT ppl who steals
- lowimpakt0
i have wanted to design an airport for close on 8 years.
i keep meaning to start.
make it an outsider art project.
- jox0
I have some pretty thick-ass encryption, and my neighbors are elderly. I doubt they're stealing bandwfif... ^_^
- UndoUndo0
throw it out the window rock star stylee!!
- auricom0
would anything have happened to the machine that could have possibley loosened the card inside?
or it somehow went bad.
also run Repair Permissions for the hell of it, see what happens.
- jox0
Permissions repaired twice already, double checked that the airport card was firmly attached. Alraedy tried fixing the problem Commodore 64-style (beat the hell out of it). Nothing worked yet. :(
- auricom0
well the sure shot way would be to pull an airport card out of one of your other machines(if you do in fact have one with the same card) and throw it in, then you'll know if it's the card or the machine.
- jox0
Ah, good idea auricom, too bad I only have one card :( Stupid computer, WHY did this have to happen TODAY. I'm leaving for a trip tomorrow, and it has to work! Suppose I could make a quick pit stop at an apple center. Thanks!
*sound of feet pattering away towards apple shop
- ribit0
huh? Joining an open network isn't stealing unless you know the person who owns the network doesn't want you to use it. Some people and organizations such as city councils provide access for free...
If you don't want people to access your network, don't provide an open network to them...its your choice.
- jox0
With that logic, are you free to steal the contents of my lunchbox unless I stated that I would like my sammich, two apples and hot chocolate alone?
"If you don't want people to access your lunchbox, don't provide an open box... its your choice."
Surely there are shelters, people and organizations offering hungry people food, but does that mean you can steal mine?
- ribit0
lunchbox is not a good analogy..how is the man in the street meant to distinguish between the deliberately open network and the sloppily-set-up network that wasnt meant to be open.... Do we all have to stop using the free-access networks because some people dont run their systems properly?
- jox0
Most (home)networks are probably open by mistake, it's just incompetence when it comes to setting it up. I'm not thrilled about the thought of taking advantage of that, but I see your point.
- ribit0
maybe they could add a 'please use me!' attribute to the Wi-Fi standards... so if people want to share, they tick the box to have it show up with an 'open and free-to-use' icon next to the network name in the users network menu. WEP/WPA protected networks could have a 'restricted' icon etc..
- auricom0
wow, weird twist of the thread.
did you get the airport working yet?