soisix Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 We have a newly installed True adsl line hooked up to a wifi router (U.S. robotics). It works wonderfully on my husband's PC (which I am working on now), but not with my mac. At first it was working okay (although it would lose the internet and was a lot slower than on the PC), but now it seems to only keep connected for a minute or two before it dies, sometimes showing it is connected to the station other times not. Once it's lost, there's nothing I can do to regain it - it only decides to magically work again on its own (usually after multiple reboots). Has anyone experienced this problem and aware of any settings I might be able to use to address it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickvan Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 We have a newly installed True adsl line hooked up to a wifi router (U.S. robotics). It works wonderfully on my husband's PC (which I am working on now), but not with my mac. At first it was working okay (although it would lose the internet and was a lot slower than on the PC), but now it seems to only keep connected for a minute or two before it dies, sometimes showing it is connected to the station other times not. Once it's lost, there's nothing I can do to regain it - it only decides to magically work again on its own (usually after multiple reboots). Has anyone experienced this problem and aware of any settings I might be able to use to address it? What Mac ? what operating system X or 9,what connection,you dont give enough details to help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soisix Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 Sorry. I have an iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.6. My internet and network settings are all set to default settings because I don't know enough to do anything specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickvan Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 go to system preferences open network LOCATION AUTOMATIC SHOW BUILT-IN ETHERNET at TCP/IP configure Ipv4: Using DHCP PPPoE, Appletalk ,proxies dont do nothing Ehernet Configure automatically That's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickvan Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 By the way I use a xyxell router and airport express and i have 4 computers connected 3 apples mac and one pc all wireless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosquitoman Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 We have a newly installed True adsl line hooked up to a wifi router (U.S. robotics). It works wonderfully on my husband's PC (which I am working on now), but not with my mac. At first it was working okay (although it would lose the internet and was a lot slower than on the PC), but now it seems to only keep connected for a minute or two before it dies, sometimes showing it is connected to the station other times not. Once it's lost, there's nothing I can do to regain it - it only decides to magically work again on its own (usually after multiple reboots). Has anyone experienced this problem and aware of any settings I might be able to use to address it? If you are able to ditch the mac and get a PC, I did after 12 years of using macs. I do not regrett it for one minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soisix Posted June 6, 2006 Author Share Posted June 6, 2006 We have a newly installed True adsl line hooked up to a wifi router (U.S. robotics). It works wonderfully on my husband's PC (which I am working on now), but not with my mac. At first it was working okay (although it would lose the internet and was a lot slower than on the PC), but now it seems to only keep connected for a minute or two before it dies, sometimes showing it is connected to the station other times not. Once it's lost, there's nothing I can do to regain it - it only decides to magically work again on its own (usually after multiple reboots). Has anyone experienced this problem and aware of any settings I might be able to use to address it? If you are able to ditch the mac and get a PC, I did after 12 years of using macs. I do not regrett it for one minute. Believe me, I am tempted. I'll give the suggested fix a try and see how it goes. Thanks for all your responses. cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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