Matt Galloway » Wireless http://www.galloway.me.uk Online CV Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:01:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 MacBook wireless dropout (POSSIBLE FIX) http://www.galloway.me.uk/2008/09/macbook-wireless-dropout-possible-fix/ http://www.galloway.me.uk/2008/09/macbook-wireless-dropout-possible-fix/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:24:21 +0000 Matt Galloway http://blog.galloway.me.uk/?p=119 Ever since I upgraded to the latest Leopard release the other week, my MacBook has had random wireless dropouts. It’s been an intermittent issue and has only affected my MacBook and not the iBook (PowerPC) or Mac Mini (Intel) in the house.

I’d been trying various things to get it fixed like changing the security settings on the wireless router, but the only thing which seemed to fix it was changing the “Group Key Renewal” to 600 on my router (LinkSys WRT54GS).

So far, so good… just a little tip incase anyone else is having the same issue!

EDIT: It’s definitely fixed – I’ve had no dropouts of my MacBook since changing the group key renewal from 3600 to 600. I’m not sure why this was a problem before, but hey, it works. Maybe the wireless card on my MacBook is a bit crazy and doesn’t like being renewed every hour rather than every 10 minutes. Strange…

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