Comments on: And then I found ten dollars…

By: joeri

joeri — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:18:29 +0000

Maybe http://www.dvhardware.net/article15009.html (found through http://mashable.com/2010/12/20/wifi-router-quick-start/)

By: mig

mig — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:06:55 +0000

I’m not sure if I can just plug an apple Airport Extreme into this, because it is a modem that also does WIFI already. We have the same problem with this as with the device it replaced – the internet connection dies after about 5 minutes (sometimes more, sometimes less) requiring someone to run upstairs and turn it off and on.

By: joeri

joeri — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:34:09 +0000

We have a cable modem from our Telco/ISP and an Apple Airport Extreme plugged into it for the Wireless stuff. Works like a charm.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:14:57 +0000

Hmmm. I have no problems (PC, iPhone) but Scott (Mac, Macbook, iPad) has constant problems getting online. I’m going to refer this thread to him.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:27:53 +0000

This morning, to get my current connection going, i had to go up and turn the modem off and on. It worked like a charm. Unfortunately, that was the problem this new modem was supposed to solve in the first place.

By: flerdle

flerdle — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:51:19 +0000

We’ve had trouble with our wifi and a bunch of macs (up to 5) for months now. Connect, disconnect, connect, disconnect, forget to nameserve, reboot… It seems to come and go so sometimes it’s ok for a while then other nights it’s woeful. I don’t think it’s always the mac’s fault, but can’t be sure about that.

It seems better if I set up a ping to, say google, but that might just be wishful thinking. Turning my mac’s airport off and on seems to help sometimes too, but only sometimes.

Sorry I don’t have much advice, but it’s not just you. Our router is a Netcomm. I’ll try your advice about G, Brian, but I think we might already be doing that!

Good luck mig.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:15:28 +0000

thank you.
with our previous modem and router, we had to do a reboot after teh connection died, sometimes every few minutes, which kind of defeated the purpose of wifi. jsut now i tried to log on, and it timed out over and over. so i rebooted and it worked.
sigh.
i was wondering if using an apple product for the wifi would help. i get my internet out of the phone jack, unfortunately, not cable, which is faster right?
maybe i should go talk to the kid at the apple store about this… so far my mac is the only thing i’ve tried the wifi with. will get my wife to fire her non-mac thing up this weekend and see how that does.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:36:12 +0000

One thing that pops up a lot in the tech forums I look at is that sometimes you have to make sure the router is only using one wireless mode instead of multiple modes, and that the mode it uses is 802.11g, not the faster 802.11n. This isn’t as much of an issue as it was a couple of years ago, since most people using the even-slower B-mode have moved up to at least G, but if you’ve got several computers all trying to connect, and some of them have older wirelss cards, it can be a pain, because the older ones will have to be upgraded to G.

I get around this problem by plugging an Apple Airport Extreme into my cable modem and using THAT as the wireless node instead of the company-provided device. My MacBook and all the various PCs all connect to the Airport without any problems.