Re: MacBook + Snow Leopard breaks wifi

In article <1j6rpbv.1hgz6rd8zryuyN%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Maine) wrote:

It has taken me all week to reply - she was away at school with her
MacBook.


Daniel L. Snyder <snyds_remove-this_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The wifi is not currently configured for WAP or any sign on security.
It should accept any connection. The SSID is hidden, so on has to
usually sign on with the network name.

Well... in theory it should work, but in the past, I have had difficulty
connecting to access points that were not broadcasting the SSID. I
decided to stop doing that. This was long before 10.6, so nothing new.
Not giaranteed to have anything to do with your problem. But I'd do it
anyway. It isn't as though refraining from broadcasting the SSID
provides you any security at all, if that's what you are trying to
achieve.

Much better to go ahead and broadcast the SSID and turn on WPA. (WEP is
less secure and can be a pain because of Mac vs PC differences that you
won't run into with WPA. WEP can be made to work; I've done it for a
network with some ancient junk PC wireless cards that didn't do WPA). I
assume your WAP is some kind of typo or confusion between WEP and WPA,
as there is no sign-on security called WAP.

Yes, I mean WPA. Sorry.

So I opened up the SSID (no longer hidden) and configured the modem
(through its web access) for a WPA password. My MacBook Pro is still
running 10.5.6/Leopard and it had no problem connected. Alas, my
daughter's MacBook, with Snow Leopard, still keeps on getting a
Connection Timeout.




For what it is worth, I upgraded an Oldish powerbook to 10.6 and had no
difficulty in connecting to either of two wireless networks I currently
run (one at work and one at home), but both of them broadcast their SSID
and use WPA2.
.

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