Macbook Wifi

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Macbook Wifi

Macbook 10.5.8 won't connect to my 2wire U-Verse router. It says connection timeout, or if it does connect it says 'self assigned ip address' and it won't load any web pages. I've deleted the preferred networks, deleted the plst and deleted it out of the keychain. I took of the password on my wifi and it had the same problem. I've had it set to wep, wpa and wpa2. I've reset the pram as well. It connected last night when my PC and iphone were shut off, but it dropped quickly. I've rebooted, reset just about everything. The macbook will connect to other wi-fi, and my other computer (PC) will connect to the 2wire. I've tried resetting the DHCP in the airport settings as well as empyting the cache in the terminal. I've been all over the internet and all I find are forums of questions about this and people posting they are having the same problems and never any answers. Someone PLEASE HELP

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 13, 2011 8:41 AM

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BDAqua

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Aug 13, 2011 11:40 AM in response to taylorsm

Is the Router set to only allow wifi if the Hardware Mac address is stored in it?

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taylorsm Author

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Aug 13, 2011 12:46 PM in response to BDAqua

I'm not sure I understand, I can connect using an Ethernet cable. On my pc or MacBook. And we had been trying to connect all morning yesterday before we finally stretched a cable to it. Also my Mac filter is shut off as that doesnt matter for this type of stuff and is just a pain.

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BDAqua

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Aug 13, 2011 1:09 PM in response to taylorsm

The Hardware addreess only affects which wefis can connect, here's how it looks on an Airport router...

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taylorsm Author

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Aug 13, 2011 11:03 PM in response to BDAqua

Okay, I reset my router, which didn't work, we came home and it started working randomly. My wife had went through the diagnostic thing and it started working. Well I couldn't log in to the router to change the name. So after unplugging power and booting back up with no success, I reset the router again. Turns out this router has some "protected setup" crap that no one felt the need to explain nor can i find much about it online. Well I changed the name, then tried to set it up on my wife's mac so it was working again for in the morning, but it wouldn't connect again. I messed with the protected setup thinking that was what it was. Then I noticed I was on channel 1 on my router, previously was on channel 5. Well I tried channel 4 cause I couldn't remember if it was 4or5, well 4 didn't work so I tried 5 and BAM it started working. *** is that all about?!?

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BDAqua

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Aug 13, 2011 11:41 PM in response to taylorsm

Good work Taylor, I think I'd invest in another Router at this point!

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taylorsm Author

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Aug 14, 2011 12:01 AM in response to BDAqua

But Is it the router? I just picked up my new MacBook pro and right out of the box it connected without a problem. Is there a setting that restricts what channels macs will connect to or anything like that?

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BDAqua

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Aug 14, 2011 12:23 AM in response to taylorsm

Well then Mac has a later OS than 10.5.8, so no contest, seems Apple has always had trouble with this , & doesn't always upgate earlier OSes to account for it. 😟

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taylorsm Author

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Aug 14, 2011 4:15 PM in response to BDAqua

O great, that makes me feel good about dropping 1700 on a laptop and apple just may forget it after a couple years. While windows gets updates and little fixes for years.

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