What is the most reliable Wireless router for Mountain Lion? I've now been struggling with several routers and returning them to the store because they either don't support ML or they persistenly and regularly lose the wireless signal.
Goin batty!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 27" 3.4 GHz i7, 16 GB 1067 DDR3
Hi drdocumnet,
DSL companies do the same thing. If anyone would happen to find out your DSL account name and password, you could get bumped out of your own account. It wouldn't be easy to do, but it can be done.
Once you're online, the system will not let another DSL router login with the same credentials (like your cable example). But if you were to lose power for a while (and the other person knew this), they could take that opening to login to your account with their modem. Then when you get power back, you won't be able to login. The system will see it's already in use and refuse a connection.
In addition to Kurt Lang's excellent instructions, something very simple may have slipped by. I know with my ISP (Cox) there were times I had to turn everything off and power everything back on in a specific order.
Have you tried shutting down your iMac, powering off the router and powering off the cable/DSL modem then wait 10 seconds and reverse the order to power on (power on the cable/DSL modem, wait for all the lights to show it is booted, power on the router, wait for all the lights to show it is booted, power on your iMac) and test connectivity?
The above may not help, but it's worth a try. Sometimes resetting everything fixes weird issues.
Kurt, I snarfed up the second 128 Mac to enter Nashville TN 28 years ago. Yours is the most concise analysis and instruction I have experienced in all those years- and I owned a successful software development company with our own award-winning Customer Service.
Apple, this is your benchmark.
Outstanding.
Thank you,
Herb
PS keg, I also appreciate your notes. Thanks to all who dove in on this.
Thank you for the kind words, dmingo. Glad to help. 🙂
One quick followup. Can I attach my Ethernet hub to one of the router output connectors and share the signal with other Enet devices without affecting the router's wireless performance? I'd also like to retain the speed of hardwire connections when I send some hefty files across the Net.
Thanks again
You wouldn't (and likely shouldn't) connect the hub. Just connect the other Ethernet devices directly to the other open ports on the router.
Edit: Looked into it a little bit more. Newer Ethernet hubs are essentially a switch. In other words, a router without DHCP addressing, which is what you would want. So you can do it either way. If you have three or less wired devices to connect, just plug them in directly to the router. If you have more than that, then leave them plugged into the hub, and then one of the open ports of the hub gets connected to a port on the router. Since the hub has no means to assign DHCP IP addresses, the router will do that automatically.
I was just slightly worried the hub may also assign DHCP IP addresses. If that were the case, you definitely would not be able to connect it to the router, or both devices would be trying to assign IP addresses to every connected device.
postnote. As a behind-the-scenes culprit, I discovered that the construction-grade cat-5 cabling in the walls was getting overloaded and bogged down. I replaced it with 50ft of cat-6 last night and all is very well indeed. Thanks again.
Great catch! I didn't think to ask about the cable. If it was kinked, too slow (like cat-3 or something). Good to hear things are operational. 🙂
Wireless Router- Mountain lion?
