Re: MacBook WiFi Problems

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:03:27 +0100, Mike Edwards wrote:

Have been struggling with getting reliable wireless connection on my
MacBook. I know I am at the extreme end of the range from my hub as
iStumbler only reports a signal strength of around 30%.

I can be happily typing away, streaming music, etc. with all 4 lines in
the menu bar indicator showing fine and everything will stall. After a
few seconds the indicator will drop to just one bar. Waiting a few more
seconds and it;s back to 4 bars and everything starts working again.

The bizarre thing is that iStumbler shows that there was no change in
signal strength during this time. I upgraded the firmware to enable
802.11n and now iStumbler shows the signal strength to be 40% (yay!) but
there are still problems. The interrupts are shorter now but still
happen.

Any bright ideas?

Just fixed that same thing on my Macbook Pro. It was driving me up the
wall. In fact it was worse than that as sometimes it would still show full
signal and I just couldn't connect to anything for a while.

I changed my wireless channel from 11 to 1.
Now everything is so much faster and everything works.

--
Woody
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