James Snedeker

Q: My MBA's wireless connection keeps locking up

My MacBook Air's Internet connects wirelessly to a router.  Most of the time everything works fine.   But every now and then, when I'm on the Internet and I click on a new link, nothing happens.   I get no progress indicator telling me that things are working and to be patient.  I check the wireless signal strength meter and it shows 100%.

 

Same thing sometimes when I wake the laptop up.   I open it up, the desktop displays correctly, signal strength of 100% but when I click on my Safari icon, nothing happens.   I find that if I do a restart, that will sometimes fix it.  But sometimes it still won't work, even after 3-4 restarts.  I'll even shut down and reboot, which still doesn't solve it.  Again, wireless signal strength is still 100%.

 

At that point I just put it down and go use my desktop, which never has this problem.  It is also running on the same wireless router.

 

Any ideas?  Thank you.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 Mz

Posted on Feb 1, 2015 5:19 AM

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