Bizarre Airport Problem

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Mr. Tapeguy - 09 Nov 2006 09:39 GMT

have two machines on an Airport Express in my house connected to a
cable modem. I rarely have any problems with the connection and when I
do, a simple reboot of the cable modem/airport/computer fixes it.

Tonight I came home and my work computer (Powerbook G4 OS 10.4.8)
cannot see my network, although it CAN see my neighbor's network. My
kids' eMac, on the other hand, sees my network just fine.

I have checked system preferences, repaired permissions, done a disk
utility in singer-user UXIX command-line mode and explored everything I
can think of. I'm assuming it has to be SOME kind of specific software
problem related to THIS airport card because clearly, it works (it can
see another network) and clearly my network is fine (the other computer
can see it.)

Any ideas? Both my certified tech and I are stumped.

Craig

http://www.pro-tape.com

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Florian Zschocke - 09 Nov 2006 10:13 GMT

"Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> schrieb:

> have two machines on an Airport Express in my house connected to a
> cable modem. I rarely have any problems with the connection and when I
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> cannot see my network, although it CAN see my neighbor's network. My
> kids' eMac, on the other hand, sees my network just fine.

Try a different channel.

Florian

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John Johnson - 09 Nov 2006 13:39 GMT

> have two machines on an Airport Express in my house connected to a
> cable modem. I rarely have any problems with the connection and when I
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> http://www.pro-tape.com

Have you fired up MacStumbler and looked to see whether your network is
available there? If you do the same on your eMac, what's the S/N ratio?

Unless you've got a reason for thinking that the hardware is good, I'd
at least swap out the Airport cards in the PB and see if that takes care
of the issue. HTH

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John

johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu

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Shawn Hirn - 26 Feb 2007 03:34 GMT

> have two machines on an Airport Express in my house connected to a
> cable modem. I rarely have any problems with the connection and when I
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> Any ideas? Both my certified tech and I are stumped.

Check to make sure there are no other wireless routers on the same
channel as your airport router. A good tool for doing that is the
AirPort Control dashboard widget. You might also benefit by turning on
the interface robustness Airport feature.

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Bizarre Airport Problem