My daughter thinks that Linksys makes the best wireless routers, and The Linksys router is much larger than the Belkin. The Linksys unit is physically much larger than the Belkin routerĪnd has two antennae instead of one, which probably helps. Signal indicated by the AirPort icon in the menu bar.
The Pismo with the Buffalo PC Card adapter hasīeen connecting reliably and staying connected with a good healthy Router for a few days at this writing, but so far, so good. So she kindly dropped it in the mail for me to try - and it turns out Wireless-B Broadband Router Model BEFW11S4 that she wasn't using, She was able to suggest some configuration tweaks, but the problem According to her, theseīelkin routers don't have a very positive reputation in the wireless Immediately suggested that might be my problem. When I told her it was a Belkin Wireless G unit, she Support for wireless networks, she asked what sort of wireless router I Issue with my daughter, who has made her living doing telephone tech The fact is that my ignorance of wireless network technology andĮngineering principles is near-encyclopedic. Typically hassle free network connectivity. The fact that he's a PC guy and not terribly familiar with the Mac's Network configuration, I think that impression was more attributable to He'd hooked up in our area that "knew what they were doing" in terms of Wireless broadband installer's comment that I was the first customer Difficulty inĭiagnosing and troubleshooting the issue is that notwithstanding the However, I've now discovered that my deduction about the problemīeing the Pismo or its OS was not entirely the case. Just fine, then after I had put it to sleep and returned sometime These phenomena was that sometimes the Pismo would connect and function
That it must be either something about the way the Buffalo WiFi cardĪddresses AirPort in the Pismo (or vice-versa) - or perhaps an OS X 10.4 "Tiger" issue, since I In my earlier report, I mentioned that I wasn't getting theseĬonnection dropouts with either the MacBook or the G4 PowerBook, so I deduced It seemed to be a little more reliable, but itīasically acted the same way on my wireless LAN. This month, and while she was gone I experimented with using her Pismo My wife was away visiting her family in Bermuda for 10 days earlier
The point that the Pismo had become essentially unusable on wireless,Īnd I found myself reverting to dial-up to get my work done. This behavior had gotten steadily worse over the past six weeks to Wireless router, refusing to reconnect, and being generally In my last report I was having problems with my old G4-upgradedīuffalo G54 802.11g WiFi PC Card adapter dropping connections with my Years on slow rural dial-up to wireless broadband, you may recall that If you've been following my adventures making the transition from 12
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