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Feb 11, 2008 2:45 PMby RobertWA,I have to respectfully disagree that the aluminum case is the issue. My MBP worked great on wireless until about 2 weeks ago, now it's hit or miss. Once I manage to get connected, I'm fine, but as soon as the machine goes to sleep, I'm screwed. Someone posted that the 10.5.2 upgrade fixed the issue, but as I'm still on 10.4.11, that "fix" isn't relevant for me. -
Feb 13, 2008 5:47 AMby Helene125,I'm on 10.4.11 and I need a fix for this too. I don't have the cash to upgrade to Leopard just yet and the 'restart, reset, run diagnostics, spin around three times and hop-on-one-foot' ritual I do every time I wake my MBP is becoming bothersome.
...and I was so happy about this wireless upgrade (linksys wrt150n). In fact, I'm the one who insisted upon it and sadly, I'm the only one having problems--and the only one running a mac. am I EVER red in the face. -
Feb 13, 2008 6:06 AMby Pablo Herranz Lorente,i am havig the same issue with my airport sice upgrading to 10.5.1 and 10.5.2. not even 10.5.2 is fixing the problem!!! just updated this morning and the problem still exists!!!!
its really anoying having this kind of issue with a 2500$ laptop. it seems apple doesnt care for customers anymore and is thinking about profits instead of quality and reliability.
what a shame...
we need a solution NOW, this is unaceptable -
Feb 13, 2008 6:55 PMby greatnate,I have a very similar issue, my MBP will stay connected to my WPA-PSK just fine when on A/C power, however soon after disconnecting the A/C adapter and running on battery, it will disconnect amd I have to manually reconnect it. This will happen every couple of minutes to several times a minute, it is very very annoying. -
Feb 14, 2008 3:05 PMby Trystero,For what it's worth, and I do worry about saying this for fear it will jinx me, the problems seem to have gone away since patching to 10.5.2. My airport radar tool thingy up on the menu bar now shows a full set of black curves, whereas before even when I was *right next to my wireless router* it would only show 2 or 3. And, connectivity seems stable and fast. I'll have to play around with it some more (only installed 10.5.2 this morning), but so far things are looking better. -
Feb 16, 2008 9:49 PMby Gr8_Gonzo,I am giving it another go with Mixed or Wireless N only protocals on my Linksys 300N router setup. So far the upgrade to 10.5.2 seems to have corrected my connectivity issues. I will reply if it isn't fixed.
At this point it looks good.
I must add as a recent re-convert to Mac from MS it is good to see responsiveness from a major computer manufacturer.
Gonzo -
Feb 19, 2008 6:33 AMby Trystero,As I said, the connection is now fast and stable (still crossing my fingers, however). The issue of the bars was a weird anomaly, I guess, though I do think it matters since when the bars disappeared completely, I had no connection at that point. Again, before the upgrade to Leopard, this was never an issue. I could go anywhere in my home and see full signal strength. -
Feb 19, 2008 8:01 AMby RobertWA,An update from me, as I seem to be back online now - with a stable connection...
Here's my story: Bought a MBP in Nov. 2006 -it worked great until a month ago or so, running 10.4.11. Then I got the won't connect after waking from sleep problem. I tried all the suggestions here (turning off N mode, airport on/off, restart, etc.), but nothing would resolve this on my MBP, even though my PC's had no problem connecting to the router. FWIW, I also had a D-Link DIR-655 router.
Finally, I got fed up and went to the Genius Bar - where after trying a variety of things, I ended up buying the upgrade to 10.5, as well as a Airport Extreme Base Station. After getting 10.5 installed and updated to 10.5.2, and setting up the AEBS, I'm somewhat happy to report that I'm back and fully functional on wireless again, from my Macbook Pro, my PC, and my wired desktop PC. I've tested wake from sleep several times in the past 20 hours, and it seems to work perfectly.
I am frustrated that I had to spend $330 to fix a problem that was mac specific - but at the same time, at least now I know that everything works again. For what it's worth, this problem didn't start for me until I did the Quick Time/iTunes update about a month or so ago (forgot the exact date). -
Feb 20, 2008 1:42 AMby smaxbean,hello,
it seems that it is a largely spread issue on MBP. I am also affected by the loss of Wifi connection but on my side I noticed that it's occur only when MagSafe adapter is not plugged in. When MagSafe is plugged, I don't have any problem with my Wifi.
This is quite a shame for a "state-of-the-art" laptop computer, supposed to be mobile, to be obliged to have wire plugged to take benefit of a Wireless connection, isn't it !!!
Let's hope that Apple's engineers will solve this soon.
