Comments on: How I fixed my dropping wireless Airport connection problem in Snow Leopard

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:46:48 +0000

I am having this problem since a Lion upgrade… although I have also upgraded the memory, painstakingly, in my Mac Mini, so I am wondering whether I have damaged the antenna in some way.

I will try the IPv6 OFF setting, and see what happens.

Mike.

By: Ceasar K

Ceasar K — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:14 +0000

I had a similar problem and this is how i solved it:

Speed was normal on all my wireless devices connected to the same router except for my Mac Mini on which the speed was very bad.

I tried changing some settings on the router and changing the channel but it didn’t do the trick.

I finally was able to fix it by going to the Airport settings on my Mac Mini and DISABLING IPv6!!

Works like a charm now and i have full speed..

Thought i’d share this solution with all of you since i spent quite some time on this today and it was very frustrating.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

By: BAT

BAT — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:13:06 +0000

Just added a Verizon MIFI 4G hotspot so that my wife and I can use our Macs when we travel. We are still using Snow Leopard because we have some old Mac applications that won’t run under Lion. We couldn’t get either of our MacBook Pros to connect to to the WIFI hotspot. We spent a couple of hours on the phone with Verizon tech support; they were nice but couldn’t fix the problem.

After a lot of poking around I found that there was a conflict between the channel used by our Airport router, a neighbors router and the MIFI hotspot. The Airport selects the channel automatically and so does the MIFI; both were selecting channel 1. The Airport router wouldn’t allow me to change the channel selection(certainly couldn’t change our neighbors wireless router) but was able to manually configure the MIFI to use a different channel.

There are about 7 wireless routers in the hood that we can see. Used the System Profiler to display details about all of these; had to select View->Refresh about 5 times before all of them displayed. After that I selected a channel that didn’t conflict with any nearby wireless router. Now both Mac’s connect and stay connected to the MIFI. We are getting really good download/upload speeds with the Verizon 4G MIFI hotspot.

By: Krystle

Krystle — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:33:45 +0000

tried it…didn’t work. thanks though!

By: matt

matt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:35:38 +0000

Try these articles:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/15/fix-for-mac-os-x-not-remembering-wireless-networks/

http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/22/mac-wont-remember-a-wireless-network-password-heres-how-to-fix-it/

By: Krystle

Krystle — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:32:33 +0000

Help! My home network suddenly disappeared from my network list. However, my friends PC, my ipod, and my iphone all are using the home network just fine. Everytime I enter the information to join other network (my home network) it says “connection timeout.” I have no idea where to even begin to fix this…any help would be greatly appreciated. PS. I tried using wifi in other locations and it worked just fine!

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:22:55 +0000

Thanks! I had this problem after my IP installed a new wireless router. My Macbook1.1 from 2007 with 10.6.8 kept dropping internet after a few minutes of use. My iPhone and iPad did not have the same problem.

I then changed the wireless protocol from WirelessBGN to WirelessN only. This fixed the problem for me.

By: Snt

Snt — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:08:05 +0000

Mine is Macbook pro version 10.6.8

I can’t connect with my existing internet.

I am relief that i am not alone suffering this problem.

Apple, this is your problem. Please fix it as soon as possible.

By: Ryan - RMC Tech

Ryan - RMC Tech — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:46:25 +0000

Interesting. I ran into a similar problem with a customer. The problem was actually the type of security on the router. But I can see how these things could effect performance and sustenance in your connection.

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By: frakepe

frakepe — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:57:23 +0000

i tried all solutions above but still “connection time out”. anyone can help?

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:19:16 +0000

I have a macbook with OS X 10.5.8 and my Airport randomly shuts off and will not turn back on. To be completely honest I have not the slightest clue how to fix it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

By: Pedi

Pedi — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:43:30 +0000

Struggling with same issue. Does anybody have this issue whit Airport Extreme as well? I have benn advised to by Airport extreme to solve the problem. I am not sure if it works!

By: newmacbookpro

newmacbookpro — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:55:34 +0000

Ran into this same issue – at least I thought. Brand new MBP with OSX 10.6.7. Everything is working fine (with the exception of a weak signal every so often – but there is a lot of wireless interference in this building, so it’s expected) then a few days ago the wireless connection would just disconnect suddenly. The Airport status icon would pulsate and indicate “No networks selected,” although it would still show my network (with a signal of about 3 bars) in the list below it. At first this would happen every 30 minutes or so, but a few days later it’s down to every 1-2 minutes. Every time this happens I have to Turn Airport Off & On to reconnect. Very annoying.

Tried all the router steps: changing the wireless channel to various other channels (and even using System Profiler.app to see which channels all the other networks were on, so that mine wouldn’t interfere), changing the router’s transmission rate to 1-2MBPS, rebooting the router, renewing the IP address, and a few other tweaks. Nothing worked.

Tried all the steps for MacBook Pro: clearing DNS cache, restarting computer, resetting PRAM, creating a new Network location, disabling IPV6 configuration, creating a new user account and testing, deleting the SystemConfiguration folder and restarting, etc.

After about 2 hours of continuous troubleshooting – nothing worked.

My last ray of hope: Guest Mode on the Linksys E100 router. I login to my router as a guest, and voila, it’s working perfectly – fast as ever, no connection dropping, full signal.