Airport PPPoE time status - How do I turn it off?

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Airport PPPoE time status - How do I turn it off?

I have an Airport wireless network and I was having issues with my DSL modem. They/Earthlink suggested disabling the PPPoE on the modem and turning it on in in my airport.

I did that only now, next to the airport icon in the menu bar is a time counter showing how long I've been connected. I'd really like to turn it off. Does anyone know how to do that?

2.4 15" MPB, 2.2 15" MBP, iPhone 3G, iPod Shuffle, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Feb 28, 2009 6:38 AM

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Answer 1

sgiwiz

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Mar 1, 2009 9:16 PM in response to BW Lee

Click on the Airport icon in the menu bar, there's a pull-down for the specific network you're connected to. You will see several options there.

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Answer 2

Apr 10, 2009 4:32 PM in response to BW Lee

Can you PM me ? Cheers g

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Answer 3

Apr 13, 2009 12:28 PM in response to BW Lee

Did anyone ever find this out? I have searched all options and can't find it.

Thanks

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JayM

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Jun 1, 2009 7:11 PM in response to Marshall Merritt

I realized yesterday that even when the time is not displayed next to the Airport icon, the PPPoE time (non)display uses network bandwidth. (You can confirm by going into Network System Prefs and turning off "Show Airport Status in Menu Bar" completely and if you have e.g. Menumeters, your throughput will drop to complete zero when the comp is otherwise idle.) The time is being pulled directly from the Airport Extreme each second. It's just a couple hundred bits, but every second that's unnecessary and silly.

Any help much appreciated.

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Answer 5

Jun 4, 2009 12:07 PM in response to JayM

Click on the airport icon on the menu bar, then click on the specific wireless network you are connected to with PPP. You will see a sub menu with "Show time connected" and "Show status while connecting". Click on these to turn them on and off.

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Answer 6

JayM

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Jun 4, 2009 5:34 PM in response to bearheart

I did that, but the network is still sending the updated time every second. If you have MenuMeters (or some other real-time network throughput monitor) you will see traffic every second even with the time not showing. It seems like the only way to completely quash the unnecessary traffic is to remove the Airport indicator from the menu bar.

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