Laptop Loses Air Port Signal

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Laptop Loses Air Port Signal

My MacBook Pro occasionally loses the signal from my airport express (I live in a small apartment so distance is not the issue). When trying to reconnect to my network I get a time out error, but if I turn airport off on my laptop, restart, and turn airport back on, my macbook can see my network without any problem. Any ideas?

MacPro/MacBook Pro/iPhone, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on May 18, 2009 5:11 PM

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Answer 1

CMCSK

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May 18, 2009 6:50 PM in response to spurn555

There has been several airport updates since 10.5.1. Did you install them? Have you tried posting in the airport express forum area? http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1011

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Answer 2

May 18, 2009 7:25 PM in response to spurn555

I have virtually the identical problem - when I wake my machine from sleep, it often cannot reconnect to the wireless network (a Belkin wireless router at home and ... some variety of unknown wireless routers at school). At home, manually re-entering the network name (we don't broadcast our SSID) and password works; at school I have to reboot to get wireless access back.

I'm running 10.5.7.

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Answer 3

sig

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May 19, 2009 4:39 AM in response to SarahMicheleF

Have you set up your Locations with preferred networks?

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Answer 4

May 19, 2009 7:09 AM in response to sig

I hadn't - I have now, for school. We'll see if it makes a difference.

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Answer 5

May 21, 2009 7:39 AM in response to sig

If anything, setting up locations made it WORSE - because I had to go in and manually select the location every time, and then re-enter the network name every time (possibly this part is because neither network that I connect to broadcasts its SSID).

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