[mirvin73]

My wife has a ibook with a airport card in it. I moved the wireless router about 50 feet away and now 2-4 times a day the connection drops.

Is there a way on a MAC to restablish the connection, reset the wireless card or search for the wireless network again.

Some times the network will come back on its own, but most of the time she restarts her mac and everything is great for several hours.

Also could this be caused by the mac going into some form of sleep mode or anything similar.

In the windows world, which I'm alot more familar with, I can do a ipconfig /release and /renew and it will reconnect me if I lose my connection. Is there something similar on a mac?. My laptop does not have the problem of the connection dropping and staying gone, occassionaly it will drop and come right back, if it doesn't there are utilities to search for the network, etc...


Any help would be appreciated, she is about to throw the ibook at me if it continues to happen.

Michael Irvin

[John Strung]

Does your wife use a cordless phone by any chance? That could be the cause of her losing her connection as it most cordless phones use the same 2.4 GHz frequency as WiFi.

[kellybelly]

Originally Posted by mirvin73

My wife has a ibook with a airport card in it. I moved the wireless router about 50 feet away and now 2-4 times a day the connection drops.

I'm sorry that I can't help, but I'm chiming in to say I have the same problem.

I have a 12" Powerbook G4. I never had a wireless problem before, but since I wiped the Powerbook clean and installed Tiger I have continuing wireless problems. The connection will just drop, and I need to turn off/turn on the Airport card to reconnect to the network. Nothing else has been changed -- router location and settings are the same as before.

It happened with Tiger out of the box, and also with 10.4.1.

I know that it is not the router, since all the other wireless units in the house don't lose the connection. My boyfriend has a 17" Powerbook G4, running Tiger on an upgrade install. He has none of the same problems.

We have cordless phones in the house; do they only interfere when they ring, or is it a continuous thing?

[John Strung]

Cordless phones only interfere when they are in use.

[Louie Mantia]

If you moved the router, it may not be the wireless. I know that I moved mine, and plugged my cable modem into a new cable jack and it doesn't work well on that one, so I moved it back. I asked my cable company and they said that they put two lines from cable into my house. One of them is direct so it goes to my internet, and the other one is split multiple times to get to all the TV's in the house. If you plug your modem into a different jack, one that isn't a direct line, you won't get a good connection. Are you sure it is your router, or is it your modem?

// Lou

[kellybelly]

Originally Posted by John Strung

Cordless phones only interfere when they are in use.

That's what I thought. Thank you for confirming.