networking

Hi! I've been running into problems with my internet/wifi reception lately. It has nothing to do with my network or router because other Macs and PCs function properly on it. Sometimes my Mac will randomly drop my wifi signal for no reason! I get perfect reception in the same room as the...

Hello everybody, I've experienced a very strange problem in the last weeks, which is very frustrating. Sometimes, randomly - at least I could not figure out a common cause - some of the browsers I have installed on my system tell me that I'm not connected, while every other application using...

Since updating my OS to 10.6.7, Firefox consistently and repeatedly CRASHES! I updated FF to the latest non-beta version--3.6.15 as well as Adobe Flash updated today. I have not had this problem with Safari. Whilst trying to create this thread FF has crashed twice. I am tempted to "go...

Hello forum I have a mac mini attached to my TV. Internet is available trough airport extreme and I stream music to my living room through airport express. The airport extreme shows up as wifi network and the mac mini is connected to the internet through this connection. But the problem...

Hello all, This is my first post here, I am happy I found it! I have a VERY strange problem at home: I am running 10.6.6 on a Macbook Pro I am running 10.6.6 on an iMac I am running iOs 4.3 on an iPad I am running iOs 4.3 on an iPhone 4 My router/modem configuration is as follows...

Hey, I am the new one and here is my first question. I want to replace my router with an Apple Airport Extreme. My question is that Airport Extreme can do the same thing that my current router does, which you can see in the attached file. Router is the one located in LIVING ROOM and circled...

I know, I know, I've seen tons of this questions pop up from the net and I searched through them all...But I come with the same issue. I used to have a Belkin and that worked fine with my computers (both PC and Mac). Then that got old and switched to NetGear WNDR 3400. I already spoke with...

Hi all, I have a strange thing happening with my Iomega Media Drive, My Macbook and a Dell running Vista. If I do a Get Info on some old files 'Everyone' has Read & Write permissions. If i add something new Everyone has No Access (but i have Custom Access). I can access the files no...

I have setup a SBS2003 server at my office. I have setup VPN on a dedicated NIC, dedicated public IP, dedicated port straight to the web. I, as well as my boss can connect thru a variety of locales, and a variety of ISPs to the vpn. It is super stable and works perfectly IF we're on a PC. I have...

I work at a newspaper that uses Macs. We upgraded earlier this year to iMacs, all running 10.6.6. Made a big jump from 10.3.9. We have a network that everyone has access to. I know this defeats the purpose of the security that's built into Macs, but the reality of how we do business is that...

I have a aiport extreme ver 7.5.2 AP and Imac Leopard 10.6.6. When I watch videos on you tube or I use skype or any other voip software the video freezes every 10sec or so. I performed some test with iperf to see if I have packets dropped on wired compared to wireless. It looks like only on...

Hi, newbie here. I have the following home setup. Airport Extreme as the WLAN basestation connected to my cable modem via ethernet. Airport Express for AirTunes use. A USB hard drive connected to the Extreme. MacBook and Vista PC both connecting wirelessly to the Extreme WLAN. I have the...

Hey everyone, I'm new to all these. So I'm trying to get a MMORPG working via Crossover Games. I got as far as installation but can't log in. The Code Weavers website says that a work-around would be to use the following code to redirect traffic to the game server's real IP (it was going to a...

Hi everyone. I decided to register here and ask for help given that i didn't find anybody in google with my same problem. I am trying to use the internet sharing with Airport in my Imac but i can't do very much with this obstacle...

I'm running OS X 10.6.6 on a 17" MacBook Pro, with an Airport Extreme Base Station. I've hooked up 2 1TB Western Digital My Book external drives to the AEBS via a 4 port USB hub. They work perfectly (even with Time Machine!). Today I attached a WD 40 GB external drive to the AEBS, via the...

Back at Christmas I bought a 27inch iMac and transferred all my stuff to it with Migration Assistant. All has gone well and I have not used the old MacMini since. It's still on my ethernet network and I can see it and access the files, if I need to, but it's sat there unused and normally...

I have a Time Capsule and I just turned on the Guest Account. In order for me to do this I changed the DHCP setting under the Internet tab to change the DHCP Beginning Address to 10.x.x.x. For those using either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz wireless network they have no problems using the HP Officejet Pro...

I'm working now to collect specifics such as model of mac notebook and OS but here are the general symptoms I'm seeing with wireless networking: Mac shows it's got a solid connection and signal to the linksys wireless-G model WAP. That Linksys connects back to a Netopia DSL router provided...

Hi all, I recently bought a new wireless router with the idea of using my old airport express base station to boost the signal of the new router. However, since setting up the new router and plugging the base station in in another room, Airport Utility cannot detect it. The light is flashing...

I am reasonably sure this is a stupid question for someone who understands this stuff, but networking isn't my forte. I have been connected to the internet by broadband cable for quite some time. ...but I wanted to share that connection with my other computer, neither of which have an...