John Varela
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From time to time my Intel iMac and my wife's iMac G5, both running OS X.4, lose the Airport connection. Typically, at boot-up, the Airport icon will be greyed out and a box will open asking for an administrator authorization to change setting. Do that and suddenly Airport is working. Note that no settings had been changed since the last time. Or there will be a good connection at boot-up, but then it will be lost. Go into diagnostics and the machine is trying to connect via Ethernet (but there is no Ethernet connection). Tell it to use Airport and everything starts working again.
This happens on both iMacs. We are using a Verizon-FiOS-issued D-Link 802.11g router with a D-Link range extender, needed to reach the G5. The iStumbler program consistently reports a strong signal with about 1:1 S/N.
It sounds like maybe RF interference is causing a loss of the connection. Someone in the neighborhood is using an 802.11g network on Channel 11. We were on 10 so I moved our network to channel 1 but that made no difference.
We also have a 2.4 GHz cordless phone system with a master and two remote handsets. The iMac G5 is right next to one of the handsets but the Intel iMac and the router are both as far from the handsets as they can be in this house. Nevertheless the behavior of the two iMacs is the same. Oddly, at any given time only one of the iMacs seems to have a problem.
MY QUESTION: Before I go out and buy a new cordless phone system, can you advise me on the possibility of RFI from the cordless phones causing the computers to forget what network they are on? The described phenomena occur even though the phones haven't been in use. I would think there is no communication between the phones unless there's an incoming call or someone starts punching buttons on a handset. At this moment I hear my wife on the cordless phone in the other room, and my Airport connection is just fine.
This happens on both iMacs. We are using a Verizon-FiOS-issued D-Link 802.11g router with a D-Link range extender, needed to reach the G5. The iStumbler program consistently reports a strong signal with about 1:1 S/N.
It sounds like maybe RF interference is causing a loss of the connection. Someone in the neighborhood is using an 802.11g network on Channel 11. We were on 10 so I moved our network to channel 1 but that made no difference.
We also have a 2.4 GHz cordless phone system with a master and two remote handsets. The iMac G5 is right next to one of the handsets but the Intel iMac and the router are both as far from the handsets as they can be in this house. Nevertheless the behavior of the two iMacs is the same. Oddly, at any given time only one of the iMacs seems to have a problem.
MY QUESTION: Before I go out and buy a new cordless phone system, can you advise me on the possibility of RFI from the cordless phones causing the computers to forget what network they are on? The described phenomena occur even though the phones haven't been in use. I would think there is no communication between the phones unless there's an incoming call or someone starts punching buttons on a handset. At this moment I hear my wife on the cordless phone in the other room, and my Airport connection is just fine.