A possible fix for a slow, unusable Airport network

Jul 13, '05 08:03:00AM

Contributed by: unksil

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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