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    airport in mac

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by gvarsani, May 10, 2008.

  1. gvarsani

    gvarsani Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey guys, i bought my mac yesterday. i connected it to my gf's livebox wireless router but it didnt connect. so i did some research n found tht mac uses wpa key and while livebox uses wep and so does other pcs and laptops. so i put the livebox on accepting both the type of keys. it was working 'ok' yesterday, but 2day morning m not able to connect at it. its like the airport shows its connected and then when i open safari it suddenly disconnects.

    any idea whts goin on? or anyone who can help me out...
     
    gvarsani, May 10, 2008
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  2. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    Try running the network diagnostics.
     
    stealthsniper96, May 10, 2008
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  3. SsuRReaLL

    SsuRReaLL Notebook Consultant

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    When your Mac was connected and working proper, where there other nodes (machines etc) connected as well at the same time with different encryption?
    Try connecting only your Mac and see what the result is. They should all use the same encryption method. The first machine determines the encryption method it seems in this case. Don't use WEP anyway its like using no encryption at all.
     
    SsuRReaLL, May 11, 2008
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    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    As SsuRReaLL said, just change all of the computers over to WPA. Windows and OS X both do better with WPA than WEP, and as was said, WEP is not any better than having no security at all. It can be cracked in a matter of minutes.

    Use WPA and that should keep all of the computers happy. If the Windows computers have some issues, make sure it is not set to WPA2 only mode.
     
    cashmonee, May 11, 2008
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