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Airport extreme keeps dropping connection and its driving me crazy

Alright so I have an airport extreme, and I have been having these "dropping out" problems for a long time now. For about 20 seconds, the internet signal is at maximum strength, then for some reason just completely drops for a few seconds then comes back. So basically if I am doing anything like playing a game online or talking on aim it just drops out for a few seconds then comes back. It's driving me mental.

The airport is not far at all from my computer, and we do have 2.4ghz phones, but over at my other house, we have a linksis wireless setup, and my computer is much farther away and there are also 2.4ghz phones there, and it doesn't drop out at all.

I have tried hard resets, changing the airport channel it's on, downgrading to previous airport versions... I know it's not my computer because it does it with both our macs in the house.

If someone can help me fix this it would be very greatly appreciated.

Message was edited by: Sean4258

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Aug 11, 2007 5:13 PM

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Mar 4, 2009 5:51 PM in response to Sean4258

Folks

After googling and research, the below has worked for me so far..... Hope it helps all.

Software to Install: Little Snitch

Solution:

Using the latest version (v.2), go to Preferences, or Little Snitch Configuration, choose Rules under the Window menu, and click the New button. In the pop-up window that shows up, click on the gear icon and choose "Choose System Process." A file open box opens, and under the folder "libexec," choose "airportd." "airportd" is the system daemon that controls the Airport card in the MacBook Pro. In the box that comes up, set the main menu to "Allow Connections" and the Server menu to "Local Network."


THAT'S IT. RUNNING ON FULL STRENGTH SO FAR..... 🙂

Airport extreme keeps dropping connection and its driving me crazy

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