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Macbook Air Running version 10.7.5 won't connect to wifi but connects via Ethernet
I have a MBA and I have connected to my home network before. I went on holiday and on return, I cannot connect to Wifi anymore.
It tells me "connection time-out occurred". But my Ipod Touch (4th Gen) ...
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Internet connection problem wifi working fine but unable to ping anything?
I just came to a different country and suddenly I am having strange issues with my macbook air 2012's wifi. It seems to detect the wifi networks without issue but refuses to load any webpages or ...
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Macbook Air (2011) WIFI Issue
After working perfectly for the past 1.5 years I have had my 13" MBA, I suddenly had WIFI issues. Let me give a few details about my experience:
I suddenly had issues connecting to the internet (I ...
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File transfer from XBOX 360 to MBA (wifi?)
I have this Spanish lessons on a CD disk!
My MBA does not have a CD drive.
So I use the Xbox to play the CD disk.
However, the Xbox is not very portable :(
I wonder if there is a way to get those ...
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USB wifi antenna for MacBook Air
I am still having my problem with 109 wifi radios around my location, all with low signal.
I live in a apartment complex that provides free internet, but signal is very low at my location. The owner ...
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How can I disable automatic scanning for WiFi networks?
The objective is to strengthen the WiFi reception (at the moment without additional hardware).
I live in an area with a 100+ radio signals.
Majority is useless (to low signal) but still scanned and ...
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Assigned a password to my home wifi, cannot connect to it on my macbook
So. Assigned the password to my network. First time it worked great. But then, I had to resset the router. After that, I went and assigned the password again, but this time, when I try to connect to ...
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WiFi problems with new MacBook Air 11"
I just bough a new Mac Book air 11", but it looks like it has a problem with WiFi. So, every 20-30 minutes i loose an internet connection. WiFi signal is good and adapter doesn't disconnects from the ...
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Slow file transfer between Macbook AIr and Time Capsule
The Problem:
I want to copy files from my MacBook Air to my Time Capsule but it is taking a long time. I calculated the rate to be 1.5 Mbps which is very slow. In other forums they say the rate is ...
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Changing WiFi settings separately
I'm using 2 WiFi networks with my MacBook Air. I need to switch between them sometimes. The problem is one needs completely different settings from the other, and it looks like I can only make ...
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MacBook Air wifi NIC: supported channels
I've had a problem with my Wi-Fi connection to a TP-Link router from MacBook Air. It has been solved by manually changing Wi-Fi channel on the router from "Automatic" to an average value.
What ...
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MacBook Air: Can't connect to my TP-Link wifi router
I have a MBA 13" mid 12, OS X 10.7.5. It often completely ignores my Wi-Fi network, not showing it in the list of available networks (my Linux boxes and Android devices are connecting perfectly).
I ...
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Not able to log into the LINE VOIP service using a MacBook Air via wifi at home
I have a MacBook Air with Corei5 and it is connected to web through a netgear wifi router at home. I am able to connect to the web without any problems but I am just not able to log into LINE using ...
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Wifi speed: Desktop/laptop > iPad > iPhone?
I've been stationed in Japan for the next three years, and they've got some ludicrous speeds on their fiber Internet over here.
That being said, speed tests (using the SpeedTest.net app) are ...
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Wi-Fi connection randomly disconnects on 2012 MacBook Air
My 2012 MacBook Air has problems with Wi-Fi – random disconnections, every few minutes.
The problems occurred with Lion, and persist after an upgrade to Mountain Lion.
It seems the Wi-Fi drops ...
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Large ping times in normal mode, okay ping times in safe mode
I pinged google.com to see that ping times ranged from 54 ms to over 2000 ms on my MBA. After a quick isolation and testing, I figured that it was my MBA only issue. I log into safe mode on my MBA ...
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Is there a way to auto switch wireless networks depending on signal strength?
I have a Linksys dual band router. Near the back of our house (which is where our computers are mostly located) only the G network really comes through so when I'm working in the front of our house, I ...
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Mountain Lion Upgrade Internet Issues [closed]
My MacBook Air late 2010 worked perfectly before the Mountain Lion upgrade. After I updated to Mountain Lion, the Internet stopped working on my WiFi network. It detects the network and connects to it ...
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My Macbook Air won't connect to the internet
I have a Macbook Air I bought in November 2011, v 10.7.4 and I have issues connecting to the internet. Though the wifi symbol shows that I have a strong connection, I have no internet access. The only ...
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Connect to network says “Connection failed” but it actually isn't
On most occasions, when I try to connect to a new wi-fi network, after I enter the password and click "Connect" the connection dialog says "Connection failed" after a little pause, but in fact the ...
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Strange issues with MBA (WiFi)
Several nights ago, I noticed that my home wifi network seemed really slow on my Macbook Air (mid-2011). I was seemingly capped at 12KB/s for downloads, while I was able to upload pretty consistently ...
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Wi-Fi has stopped working around the time 10.7.3 update. Might they be related?
I have a MacBook Air which was working fine. Now I have awful network issues since the 10.7.3 update.
My home router is a D-Link DIR-615. I was securing the Wi-Fi network using WEP which worked great ...
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Crash when using university wifi
I recently bought a MacBook Air 13", to use at my university (Technical University of Denmark).
But when I am using my laptop in a place with many other laptops, OSX crashes every 5 minutes (kernel ...
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MacBook Air can't connect to cafe wireless, but iPhone can
My MacBook Air stopped being able to connect to the wireless network at a coffee shop I frequent. It's an open network, but requires a clickthrough on a gateway page to complete the connection to the ...
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Mac Book Air 13" (2011) - Wifi continuosly disconnecting
Last October I bought my first Mac, a Macbook Air 13". It works perfectly except for the wifi: I can be connected for hours without problems, but then it suddenly disconnects. The wifi widget doesn't ...
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Network problem isolated to this macbook air, where to look next?
Periodically, once or twice a day, I'll start to experience network issues (latency and dropped packets) on this one machine while I'm browsing:
Other machines on the same Linksys WRT54G wireless ...
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Disable the “None of your preferred networks are available” dialog on OS X
How do I disable that horribly annoying dialog that tells me I am not connected to any wifi network?
None of your preferred networks are available.
Choose the Wi-Fi network you want to join ...
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MBAir wifi hardware not installed
I posted this question over at the Apple Support forums a couple days ago, but I haven't gotten an answer yet so I'll also post it here.
Ever since I bought my 11' mid-2011 MBA I have issues with ...
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Wifi problem in OSX 10.7.1 after wake from sleep
Basically it takes very long (sometimes up to 5 minutes) to reconnect to wifi after waking my Macbook Air (june '11 model) running OSX 10.7.1
It does show a list of available networks when I click the ...
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Wifi password is too short on Mac Air in Lion
I have MacBook Air with Lion which has problems to join WIFI network which password is 7 chars long. Basically button is grayed out until i add more chars. Is there a way to force Lion to ignore this ...
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Why is my new mid-2011 Air dropping wifi signal which old 2008 MacBook can hold? And is this related to my complete machine failures?
I'm on my third mid-2011 MacBook Air in less than a month and this weird wifi problem may be related to the sudden, black screen bricklike nature of its predecessors.
The Air works fine when in the ...
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Have to reconnect to WiFi every time computer goes to sleep
I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (2011) with Lion preinstalled. There is this persistent and incredibly annoying problem that is occurring with the WiFi. Every time I close the lid or let the ...
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How to get MacBook Air to automatically connect to company guest network?
My company has a guest wifi network for use by non-company issued machines. Since getting my MacBook Air recently, I've wanted to bring it in and use it around the office.
I can easily connect to ...
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How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air?
I have a new MacBook Air. I would like to run Wireshark on it. But when I choose capture in Wireshark there is no interfaces to capture from. Doesn't Wireshark have support for the MacBook Air WiFi ...
