This may be an evil plot to cause me to lose my mind, but on the off chance it's something more mundane, here goes:
I have cable Internet. I have a Netgear wireless router that distributes IP addresses via DHCP. Pretty standard stuff.
There are currently three laptops access the Net through the router. Two are running flavors of OS9 and have no problems whatsoever. My personal laptop (of course it had to be mine) is a TiPB running 10.3.2 with all the latest updates.
Up until about two weeks ago, everything was fine. Now things are quite odd indeed. I can access most of the Internet with little trouble, but if I try to access a secure site, https, the wireless signal goes nuts. Or at least it appears so, The signal indicator goes out for a few seconds, then comes back halfway, then goes out, etc.
When I look at the IP address of the Ti, it's the standard assigned-by-the-router one. Then when the signal drops, it goes away, then appears as an odd IP address that resolves as BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG. From what I understand, this doesn't mean much as it's a commonly found address.
My system log is full of entries about lookup and network change and setting host name (to my computer name) over and over, like every couple of seconds while this is going on.
As soon as I stop trying to access the https site, things calm down and I get my normal IP address back again from the router.
As I said, all updates have been done, I ran Virex just for jollies, and MacScan. I have Firewalk active, but it doesn't seem to be logging anything unusual.
I haven't made any changes to anything even remotely network related.
Everything works just swell in a DHCP Ethernet setting in my office.
Does anyone have any ideas/insight? I'm getting desperate and a little nutty.
Thanks for listening,
Judy
I have cable Internet. I have a Netgear wireless router that distributes IP addresses via DHCP. Pretty standard stuff.
There are currently three laptops access the Net through the router. Two are running flavors of OS9 and have no problems whatsoever. My personal laptop (of course it had to be mine) is a TiPB running 10.3.2 with all the latest updates.
Up until about two weeks ago, everything was fine. Now things are quite odd indeed. I can access most of the Internet with little trouble, but if I try to access a secure site, https, the wireless signal goes nuts. Or at least it appears so, The signal indicator goes out for a few seconds, then comes back halfway, then goes out, etc.
When I look at the IP address of the Ti, it's the standard assigned-by-the-router one. Then when the signal drops, it goes away, then appears as an odd IP address that resolves as BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG. From what I understand, this doesn't mean much as it's a commonly found address.
My system log is full of entries about lookup and network change and setting host name (to my computer name) over and over, like every couple of seconds while this is going on.
As soon as I stop trying to access the https site, things calm down and I get my normal IP address back again from the router.
As I said, all updates have been done, I ran Virex just for jollies, and MacScan. I have Firewalk active, but it doesn't seem to be logging anything unusual.
I haven't made any changes to anything even remotely network related.
Everything works just swell in a DHCP Ethernet setting in my office.
Does anyone have any ideas/insight? I'm getting desperate and a little nutty.
Thanks for listening,
Judy