Airport Trouble

[rickvanr]

Hey, I've been using airport for a while now, and all of a sudden today, after getting my high-speed fixed my airport is working awfully. My MSN connection is dropping frequently, but that is most likely an MSN problem, but its also loading web pages very slowly, and downloads are crawling (under 2k/sec and eventually stopping) off of macupdate and apple.com. When I plug straight into the modem it's fast, on airport it's slow.

Any ideas would be helpful,

Thanks.

 

[ejtrowbridge]

hmmm

Have you tried a system reboot? I have known this to work very well in most cases. Give it a try, and if it is still akward, I would talk to Apple.

1.) Turn off ALL equipment (Cable Modem, Computer, Airport, Computer, ect), and unplug everything.

2.) Leave it in this state for about 5 minutes.

3.) Now, turn on your CABLE MODEM (or DSL MODEM) first! Very important! Let it boot for about 30 seconds.

4.) Now, plug it into airport, and turn airport on. Let it boot for about 30 seconds.

5.) Plug in, and turn on your remaining equipment.


Give it a shot, it helped solved my problem with this before. It's very basic, but it's very helpful. Good luck!

 

[PlaceofDis]

there could be a lot of different things affecting this

make sure your airport card is seated properly
do you have any other 2.4ghz devices around that could be interfereing? microwave?
reset your wireless router
make sure airport software is up to date
try turning airport off and then starting it back up again

those are the few that i can think of right now

 

[rickvanr]

there could be a lot of different things affecting this

make sure your airport card is seated properly
do you have any other 2.4ghz devices around that could be interfereing? microwave?
reset your wireless router
make sure airport software is up to date
try turning airport off and then starting it back up again

those are the few that i can think of right now

Those are all good suggestions, but things I had already checked, thanks for the ideas though.

Have you tried a system reboot? I have known this to work very well in most cases. Give it a try, and if it is still akward, I would talk to Apple.

1.) Turn off ALL equipment (Cable Modem, Computer, Airport, Computer, ect), and unplug everything.

2.) Leave it in this state for about 5 minutes.

3.) Now, turn on your CABLE MODEM (or DSL MODEM) first! Very important! Let it boot for about 30 seconds.

4.) Now, plug it into airport, and turn airport on. Let it boot for about 30 seconds.

5.) Plug in, and turn on your remaining equipment.


Give it a shot, it helped solved my problem with this before. It's very basic, but it's very helpful. Good luck!

The reboot didn't work, and even restarting my basestation didn't. But the whole letting it sit for 5-10 minutes, giving it time, and turning on and plugging in one at a time in that order has seemed to remedy the problem.

Thanks