jimfixit
February 2nd, 2011, 08:29 AM
I'm working now to collect specifics such as model of mac notebook and OS but here are the general symptoms I'm seeing with wireless networking:
Mac shows it's got a solid connection and signal to the linksys wireless-G model WAP. That Linksys connects back to a Netopia DSL router provided by the local telco. They manage it so I don't get any say in how it's set up.
What happens on the mac is, it will get a DHCP assigned address but within just a few hours, it will no longer talk. It can't even ping itself on that address which tells me it has released it for some reason. If I either set it to static then back again or if I just do the RENEW DHCP from the TCP/IP configuration page, it takes right off.
But I can set a wintel based PC right next to the Mac, get a DHCP address and run for days, never a hiccup.
The DHCP protocol calls for the station to start renewing the IP address halfway through the lease time. The provider confirms the lease time is 3 days. The mac releases and doesn't renew within just a few hours, yet it continues to show it's MAC address in the Linksys WAP information page as being connected.
We have layer 1 and 2 but not layer 3, or at least Layer 3 doesn't want to stick around.
Anyone seen this? Anything I can change? By the way giving it a static IP doesn't work at all...can't get connected period then. On a PC I'd be reinstalling the TCP/IP stack by now....
I am a mac neophyte. I know networking, I fumble with PC's I stumble with Mac.
Mac shows it's got a solid connection and signal to the linksys wireless-G model WAP. That Linksys connects back to a Netopia DSL router provided by the local telco. They manage it so I don't get any say in how it's set up.
What happens on the mac is, it will get a DHCP assigned address but within just a few hours, it will no longer talk. It can't even ping itself on that address which tells me it has released it for some reason. If I either set it to static then back again or if I just do the RENEW DHCP from the TCP/IP configuration page, it takes right off.
But I can set a wintel based PC right next to the Mac, get a DHCP address and run for days, never a hiccup.
The DHCP protocol calls for the station to start renewing the IP address halfway through the lease time. The provider confirms the lease time is 3 days. The mac releases and doesn't renew within just a few hours, yet it continues to show it's MAC address in the Linksys WAP information page as being connected.
We have layer 1 and 2 but not layer 3, or at least Layer 3 doesn't want to stick around.
Anyone seen this? Anything I can change? By the way giving it a static IP doesn't work at all...can't get connected period then. On a PC I'd be reinstalling the TCP/IP stack by now....
I am a mac neophyte. I know networking, I fumble with PC's I stumble with Mac.