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What are "awacsd" and "hello.connectivity.me.com"?

What are "awacsd" and "hello.connectivity.me.com"?

MacBook Pro 15" Intel Corei7 (2.66-GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4G RAM, 500G HD, AEBS-N

Posted on Nov 27, 2010 9:50 AM

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Posted on Nov 27, 2010 11:50 AM

Start with a google search for awacsd and be awed by the hits.
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Jan 27, 2011 5:13 PM in response to captfred

I finally got a Senior Advisor, Taylor, at Apple to answer this. Three previous technicians claimed they'd never heard of this issue.
APACSD is Apple Wide Area Connectivity Service Daemon. It is a function of MobileMe. It doesn't pertain to BTMM only, but to a world of connections such as Calendar, Contacts, Synch, iWeb, etc.
Taylor explained that this a a form of handshaking between MobileMe and your Mac. If the connection is disabled by your firewall protection, you will see many malfunctions in anything MobileMe-related.
hello.connectivity.me.com is a platform established in OSX 10.6.6 that will later support other added services.
Funny. The third technician thought I was worried about the government seeking contact with my computer ("just who do you believe is trying to access your computer?") and treated me like a weirdo until I explained the research time I'd spent on this and told him I knew this was an Apple connection. Only then did he pass me along to his superior. At least he learned something.
And maybe this helps someone else who's bugged by these repeated requests for access. Allow the connection and it's over with.

Feb 14, 2011 4:05 PM in response to drbeez

You have to understand that tier 1 technical support, the people who answer the phone, are poorly trained and not very tech savvy. If they were they wouldn't be tier 1. They generally have a book in front of them with responses to customer questions. The customer asks the question or relates the issue. The tier 1 tech looks up the question or issue in their "book" and parrots the answer. That's it. Tier 1 techs are also under tremendous pressure to NOT escalate to tier 2. From Apple to at&t, to Verizon, to Samsung, to Dell, to whoever, tier 1 technical support reps are mostly the same. About all they do is recommend rebooting, power cycling, checking the power cord, that sort of thing.

I would like to know however why you didn't just search on your own in the first place.

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