Comments on: Tiger Causing WiFi Problems?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:05:31 +0000

Good idea to change the chanel used by the router… that works for me.

I changed also the mode to 802.11

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:16:14 +0000

Hi guys! I’ve a problem with DI-624 wireless connection and my ibook G4. I have to surf the net using an old analogic modem because in my town faster connections are unavailable. Because of I want to use wireless internet I installed windows xp and Free Proxy on an old PIII which is cable connected to DI-624 router. In this way I can surf the net using my iBook G4 wireless connection. The problem is that the connection seems to be stable but every 5 minutes stops receiving and sending data for about 30 seconds or more: in this moment I also can’t ping PIII host. I thought the problem was proxy program but connecting my iBook through cable connection works really fine. Do you have some advice? Thanks a lot.
(I’m afraid, my English is very bad… I’m Italian:p)

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By: maxwell

maxwell — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:52:15 +0000

macbook X.4.7, airport through netgear WGR614 v6, no connection trouble except when returning from an type of sleep orlong period of idling without sleep. after waking i can selec my network and it conect fine but i still have to manually connect, have tried various keychain solutions to no avail, tried prefered network settings too, but right now nothing is working to fix the problem

By: Graham Haley

Graham Haley — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:59:57 +0000

Setup: Mac Mini Dual Core running OS X 10.4.6 connected with internal Airport to a Linksys WRT54G. My network is closed (no SSID broadcast) and uses WEP.

I can connect no problems whatsoever, but if ever I lose the connection, I can’t get it to reconnect automatically. It does work if I turn the Airport off and back on again, or if I power cycle the router though, suggesting some kinds of reconnect are working. Also manual reconnect (by selecting my network name from the airport pulldown) works every time.

I’ve tried various combinations of Automatic, Preferred Networks, Keep trying known networks … etc, but nothing seems to work. Very frustrating as I’m trying to keep the mini headless, so every time I need to reconnect I need to plug in a keyboard/mouse!

It seems lots of people are having this type of problem (or variations thereof), so I’m guessing its a software bug. It would be nice to know what triggers it (does anyone know ?) so that I could script a workaround until a fix appears.

By: ThomasM

ThomasM — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:27:07 +0000

Setup: Powerbook G4 with OS 10.4.6 connecting with internal Airport carwd to an Airport Express hub

I fixed my automatic reconnection from sleep problem by going to System Preferences->Network then configuring AirPort in the AirPort tab:

By default, join: Automatic

It had previously been:

By default, join: Preferred networks

Setting it to Automatic fixed the reconnect from sleep problem, without messing with Keychain Access.

By: Sinful

Sinful — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:15:17 +0000

Powerbook G4 1.67 w/ 10.4.5. Had problems where airport lost its mind and did not automatically connect to wifi networks. When I manually connected I would get a password prompt. Even though there were keychain entries in my keychain. Tried repairing keychain: no success. Tried removing individual entries and re-entering them with no success. I ended up backing up my whole keychain and created a new one. Moved my old keychain over to new keychain (mv command) and everything now works.

By: Steve Criddle

Steve Criddle — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:08:36 +0000

I am using an iBook G4 with Tiger 10.4.5 and a Belkin wireless access point. I had very flaky wifi until I changed the channel on the Belkin. iStumbler can see the Belkin on channels 1-8 and can’t see it on channels 9-13. The same iBook works fine at work (Airport Express throughout, although iStumbler isn’t showing me anything on channels above 8). I’m not sure if that means it’s an iStumbler issue, an Airport issue or a Belkin issue.

By: Gary Hayes

Gary Hayes — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:13:36 +0000

Not sure if this has been resolved as the date of each persons post is not made. Just to say that I have a 17″ pb and a pismo (upgraded). I have used the Pismo on wireless networks all over the world on hundreds of different networks and it has an amazing success rate.

Since upgrading to 10.4.4 on both machines the 17″ is fine and the Pismo with original airport card see the network for about 5 seconds or so then drops it and never sees it again.

I suspect that apple have decided that original airport cards on upgraded pismos are not their market anymore and do not test Tiger on them anymore. So roll back time on that machine at least. Shame it is 6 years old and going strong in every other area.

By: rrrichie

rrrichie — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:07:25 +0000

Same problems here a tiBook 400, have several cards (Dell TrueMobile and a RaLink based card) but since tiger the connection is very unstable. Dropping at unforseen times, and not reconnecting after sleep. Worked perfectly before.

I’m thinking about going back to 10.3. Tiger seems snappier and Spotlight is great, but this is very annoying.
I just seems Tiger has had more attention from the intel folks and the powerpc machines are having a lot of trouble.

My Dell laptop drops the connection too, but a few times a day and reconnects immediately. The Tigerbook, needs a lot of coercing to get it going again (re-inserting the card, reconnecting to the network etc)

By: Seamus Phan

Seamus Phan — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:38:24 +0000

Have tried most of what all of you have mentioned, running OS X Tiger 10.4.4, with an iBook 900MHz at home with Airport Express, and the signal just keeps dropping every now and then. Very frustrating. This did not happen before.

By: GrannyApple

GrannyApple — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:56:48 +0000

Hi guys, I have a 1.2Ghz iBook G4 and my internet connection is so sketchy, Safari crawls, Mail gives up checking for mail and iChat is unusuble, I have only had these issues since switching to Tiger

So I am reinstalling Panther and will doubt whether I will ever buy another Mac again, those Sony VIAO’s are nice

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:17:58 +0000

I just bought a Imac G5 20″ and the wifi do not work properly!

The network connection break after few minute on the web
i cant make software update or use Itune music store.

What should I do ?
So I have plug the eterneth cable and wait tomorow to bring back this machine.

By: John Reich

John Reich — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:45:10 +0000

Hi-
I also had the same sort of problems with not connecting to the internet when waking the G4 iBook from sleep. What fixed the issue for me was an upgrade to the firmware of Linksys router. Now everytime it is woken it connects instantly. Cheers!
– John

By: Roger Holtman

Roger Holtman — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:13:08 +0000

To Hitesh:
Thank you! The name change solved my problem with connecting to a DLink wireless router. PCS worked fine. iMac on 10.4.3 stopped working. This fixed it. I swear I don’t remember giving my computer that “name” and I can’t figure out why this problem started when I did the 10.4.3 update.
Anyway, thanks.
Roger

By: The Computer Is Your Friend

The Computer Is Your Friend — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:39:08 +0000

I have the same problem of frequent loss of the network (for several months), but I am connecting to the airport express from a PC, not from a mac. So the problem is that the Airport Express is seriously flawed (it seems).

By: Tatie

Tatie — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:14:53 +0000

Update to my last post: the Airport signal now cuts out even during active internet use. Reversing my earlier statement, this is likely a design flaw rather than a feature.

Either way, still sucks.

By: Tatie

Tatie — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:18:44 +0000

Same problem as others: got a 1.42 iBook running originally on 10.4.2. No problems, then I upgraded to 4.3 and found the airport signal cutting out after 15-20 minutes idle time. Also, the new airport update proves no solution.

Curiously, if I conduct an internet activity requiring ACTIVE participation, the signal stays open indefinitely. However, if I run a passive internet activity (e.g. downloading), the signal cuts out without fail. I wonder if this is a design feature rather than a design flaw.

By: zwergpirat

zwergpirat — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:07:25 +0000

Check software update for fix!

By: Bubba

Bubba — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:46:40 +0000

Maybe this extra angle is helpful.

10.3.9 was working well for my house, with just an airport express supporting two wireless G4 laptops.
Express (purchased early 04) fried recently in power spike.
Just purchased *new* Express, and now, with the new firmware from the CD, and still using 10.3.9, I am having the connectivity problems described above in spades. Spotty connection, which sleep will always destroy.
Computer always sees wireless network, thinks it’s connected, but it cannot see my ISP.

For me then, there are a number of options involving software mismatches or even hardware trouble with the newer express.

Think I’ll return the blighted thing and just wait for Apple to sort this out. Nice to see so much good company in this problem though.

By: zwergpirat

zwergpirat — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:01:06 +0000

Read this!

http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2005/10/ibook_ram_problem

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:58:46 +0000

I connected to my neighbors WiFi and let my iBook go to sleep for 10mins or so. Guess what, it reconnected just fine to his network after waking up.

Maybe this is just a D-Link issue?

By: shane

shane — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:29:39 +0000

got the same issue
iBook G4+DI-624 both w/ latest updates.

Connections are dropping and when the iBook wakes up, i can’t seem to re-establish the connection.

Anyone get an answer from Apple?

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:44:16 +0000

also another thing, has anyone else tried locking the settings in system preferences > network > lock, as this does not work either has it worked for anyone else?

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:36:50 +0000

yes i have had this problem and it is really beginning to annoy me. everytime i turn off the computer or it goes to sleep o lose the internet connection. have you worked out a solution yet? thanks