wifi connection timeout

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wifi connection timeout

Hi guys,

I recently just got this problem where when turning off airport or putting the mac into sleep and when its woken, the WiFi does not automatically connect. Once I try to connect, it will say connection timeout. Nothing will allow it to connect to the service. My iPhone and another mac book connects fine in the same location, so I don't think it is the router. The only way it connects is if i'm about 3 meters away from the router then it connects, I can walk back to my room which is 12-15 meters away and works fine. But if it was to turn off again, I would have to repeat the process which is quite bother some.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

thanks

Andy

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 30, 2014 8:30 PM

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Oct 30, 2014 8:48 PM in response to dinher

How old is the Mac?? Did you recently upgrade to Yosemite.. if so there is your problem??

If not upgraded or any major changes recently are you really running snow leopard as per your profile?

Have you cleaned out all the wireless in the airport settings on the laptop.. ?? (wifi now not airport btw).

This problem was fairly common.. Tesserax wrote up a solution which according to the new forum layout is near impossible to find.. so here it is.

AirPort - Unable to connect after sleep/restart

There is another one..

Most common Wifi issues

All of them caused by upgrades.. but it can also just be age or overloaded wireless names.. or wireless pixies.

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Oct 30, 2014 9:30 PM in response to LaPastenague

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dinher Author

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Oct 30, 2014 9:22 PM in response to LaPastenague

The mac is roughly 3.5 years old. No i did not upgrade or update anything, just simply used it one night, closed it the next day it happened. i thought a software update would work so i updated to 10.6.8 and still not working, I have also tried your above links and the problem still occurs, do you have any other ideas?

thanks

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Oct 30, 2014 9:25 PM in response to LaPastenague

The mac is roughly 3.5 years old. No i did not upgrade or update anything, just simply used it one night, closed it the next day it happened. i thought a software update would work so i updated to 10.6.8 and still not working, I have also tried your above links and the problem still occurs, do you have any other ideas?

thanks

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