my base station is always "looking for Networks" Why?

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my base station is always "looking for Networks" Why?

It did this both in Lion and now in Mavericks. Yeah. No surprise there.

Any clues? Anyone?

Firmware on the Apple base station was just updated. Everything seems to be up to date on the computer's airport.

It's been a problem for a long time. Months. Makes everything slow. It happens on all our computers so

I'm assuming it's the base station.

PC users on my network actually have their connections dropped. Not very nice.

My router seems to work fine with ethernet. No searching there.

reboot and firmware update do not fix this.

iPhone 4S, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 7, 2014 5:44 AM

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May 7, 2014 7:44 AM in response to paulinefromkatonah

my base station is always "looking for Networks" Why?

Your Apple base station router is not "looking for networks", but your Mac is.

This is normal and expected. It might help to make believe that the message reads "verifying wireless connection", which is what is happening, as well as other things.

If the PCs are dropping connections, please look over this Windows support document for troubleshooting steps:

Wireless network connection problems in Windows

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