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A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network Network
My setup is pretty simple: iBook with Airport Extreme, which connects to an Airport Express, which in turns connects to a router, cable modem, and then out to the internet. Now, the signal with iStumbler is around 40 and noise is 10. Most of the time, I get a seamless connection to the internet and the rest of the network, but on occasion, I have these awful spates where I'm reconnecting to the Airport Express every five minutes. It makes the internet almost totally unusable and, as a smaller annoyance, it fills up my system logs with rubbish.

After shoveling through plenty of hints and being thwarted each time by my system, I learned it wasn't related to my DNS, routing, internet connection, network connection or the phase of the moon. So I felt risky. I disabled 'Use Interference Robustness' in my Airport menu item. And hey, guess what? I'm flying on the internet again...
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A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network
Authored by: sophistry on Jul 13, '05 10:41:31AM

My wireless network goes out when the phone rings - it's a 2.4gHz model and well, what do you know, it destroys the 802.11b/g 2.4gHz data network. Other household items also can destroy the wireless signal - I think microwaves have been implicated too.

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A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network
Authored by: wheeles on Jul 13, '05 11:50:38AM

When a vacuum cleaner is used near my wireless router, the signal quality drops significantly. Even after the vacuum cleaner has been switched off I find that the router sometimes needs a reboot.



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A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network
Authored by: a-bort on Jul 13, '05 03:02:40PM

Wow.. i can't help it, i just love that kind of confrontations between wireless and life.. :)



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A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network
Authored by: emarmite on Jul 13, '05 11:59:33AM

Another cause for slowness in networks like these is that you may have great signal strength to either of the base stations but they do not have the best signal between them. Utilities like iStumbler can lead you into a false sense of security by giving you great reception numbers for the link between you and the base station, but if you've got a weakish signal on the boundary between the two stations then you can be sure their signal to each other won't be so good. WDS can be a two edged sword! On the bright side, at least I own some more modern wireless phones now.... ;-)



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my sys.log fills with this:
Authored by: airdrummer on Jul 13, '05 07:00:21PM

Jul 13 18:37:28 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (AP deAuth 0)
Jul 13 18:37:29 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "bs" - 0011950d2926 - chan 11
Jul 13 18:43:52 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (AP deAuth 0)
Jul 13 18:43:52 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "bs" - 0011950d2926 - chan 11
Jul 13 18:47:07 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (AP deAuth 0)
Jul 13 18:47:07 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "bs" - 0011950d2926 - chan 11
Jul 13 18:50:22 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (AP deAuth 0)
Jul 13 18:50:22 tomsPbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "bs" - 0011950d2926 - chan 11

no matter which way the robustness flag is set:-( i've got an extreme card in my powerbook, talking to a dDink-G wap.

but my clamshell ibook & daughter's pbook, both with airport b cards, show no bouncing...



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my sys.log fills with this:
Authored by: gxw on Jul 13, '05 10:42:18PM

I'm seeing the same thing.
I too have a dlink-g access point.



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