Comments on: Solving Airport’s Mystery Dropouts

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:39:29 +0000

I’m still experimenting with changing channels, but one thing I’ve found is that making the network unsecured (i.e., no password) eliminated all issues I’ve had with dropping connections. Granted, this is not a viable solution for everyone, but using an unsecured network in conjunction with the ‘closed network’ setting may be an acceptable workaround until Apple provides a solution.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:55:11 +0000

Very nicely done! I had no idea that automatic channel selection wasn’t re-negotiated between clients when the channel became noisy.

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:18:59 +0000

oh, I suppose this is about airport extreme, huh? I should read more before I post. Does anybody have any clue about my problem despite the fact that it’s on the wrong page?

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:14:51 +0000

I’m having a problem with airport dropping signals, but it seems to be a little different. To start with, I can often times not get any signal when sitting right beside a pc with full signal strength. What is more annoying than this is when I go somewhere, (specific locations, and we’re talking room sized areas) and airport gets full signal, but then slowly drops from 5 bars to 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to none. I can surf the internet for the three or four minutes I have a signal, but then it is gone. If I restart the computer, the process repeats. Also, there is one spot in the library where this happens if I put my computer on the chair, but if I have it on to the table it is fine. However, if the laptop loses the signal on the chair first and I then move it to the table, it won’t get a signal until restart. What is going on?

By: Wouter

Wouter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:22:09 +0000

Wow, this really helped. No dropped connection for 48 hours. Luckily, around me, there is no one on channel 1!
Thanks!
Now, when will the macs be improved so this is not necessary? I have 3 PC’s at home on the same router and they NEVER dropped out, even with local interference. I switched to Mac to avoid such hassles!

By: Ged

Ged — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:12:49 +0000

Glad this post has helped so many people. I anxiously await the day when we have a better solution, but for now, these work-arounds will have to do. Stay frosty everyone!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Saved my ass there pal. A million thanks!

//D

By: Flashbax

Flashbax — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:03:46 +0000

I am totally having the same problem with the dropouts. I set my channel to 9 and have a much better signal. But what do you do when you don’t have access to the routers channel. I am constantly dropping the signal at school. I wonder when Apple will fix this issue!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:27:42 +0000

Hi, tthank you very much I have been having problems with this same issue, it has been making me and my wife crazy, i did everything from changing all parameters using airport utility but nothing worked for more than a few hours, after that it didn´t work at all, I noticed my airport is receiving signal from new networks so I figured out that you idea of changing channels could work, so now I´m enjoying my connection again, I set my channels to 9, and is working flowlessly, thank you again, also the reccomended AP grapher is very useful, thank you again…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:30:26 +0000

Really helpful – thanks! I brought a laptop home from work and could not sustain a connection for more than a few minutes. Densely populated here in Amsterdam, AP Grapher revealed no less than 45 competing networks! After some experimentation I found that channel 9 works well for me. Took a lot of googling to find this info, I’m surprised it’s not more widely known.