[nissanclay]

Hello everyone I am new to the forum. In 2 years I have never had any big problems with my powerbook untill now. I just upgraded (archive and install) from 10.2 to 10.3 and now whenever I wake my computer from sleep or I turn off and on my airport card I cannot get back on the internet w/o restarting my computer. Its starting to piss me off. Can anyone help?

I have a 667 PB
Built in airport
I have also done all the updates.

I have the problem when I am on the wireless network at school and at home so its not the networks and I did not have the problem before I upgraded.

[pat++]

which error do you get (if any)? what happens?
Make sure you have the option to "By default, join Automatic" in Airport System Preferences for your locations and not "Join a Specific Network".

[quadgrande]

There's a large (relatively) discussion on Apple's Discussion board about this issue in the various powerbook categories. There seems to be a variety of different wireless issues with Apple laptops at the moment.

I have my Airport settings set to automatically join the network. I live in New York, and in my apartment building there's always a handful of open networks.

The issue I'm having is once per hour (on average), my 5 bars of coverage (AP in same room) goes to zero, and I'm disconnected from my wireless network. For approx 2-3 minutes, my powerbook cannot see my wireless network, or yields "There was an error joining" message.

Yesterday I changed my settings to "Join a specific network." As I type this message, I've gone on and off AIM twice, which is the first indication of a problem since the change.

[cpac]

I've had similar problems.

The best I've been able to narrow it down - it's the result of interference from other Airport networks. Try changing the airport channel you're on, making it a closed network, allowing only certain MAC addresses, etc. to avoid interference....

(at least that seems to have worked for us so far (knock wood))

[nissanclay]

I dont get any errors. I have full bars (my signal never goes away) and am part of the network (others can see me) but AIM, mail, and safari will not connect. I am surfing the interne, then I leave do something (putting my computer to sleep) and when I wake my computer AIM (ichat) is disconnected (will not reconnect), mail wont get mail, and safari will not load pages. No errors come up and it is connected to my wifi network.

[biscuit]

I'm having a very similar problem to quadgrande and I posted about it here (iBook forum).

Here's hoping 10.3.3 is the cure to all ills!

biscuit