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Wireless local area networking, also known as "Wireless Internet"; stands for "WIreless FIdelity"
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Mac mini server A1347 can't use Wi-Fi during setup
There is no (reasonable) way around this. Basically, what's going on is that the firmware's network stack isn't smart enough to do 802.1X authentication (which is what's used for "enterprise" Wi-Fi au …
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What tools are there for measuring Macbook wireless strength?
You can get quite a bit of info from the command line, with the (well-hidden) airport utility. With the -I flag it'll tell you about the current network:
$ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple802 …
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"arp -a" output differs on computers attached to the same network
arp -a does not list all devices on the local network, just those that this computer happens to know the IPv4 and MAC addresses for. Each computer collects these IP <-> MAC pairs for other computers a …
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Route with /etc/hosts on computer to computer network
As stated, it's pretty difficult to do this. However, if you're willing to change the goal a little, and use a name ending in ".local" instead of ".com", it's trivial (in fact, it's already being done …
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How to return a captive portal page; e.g. Starbucks \ McDonald's WiFi landing page?
If the captive portal auto detection doesn't work, and hitting a common domain (like google.com), try a domain you don't normally visit (and hence won't be cached anywhere). Try borg.org, for example. …
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How to check status of Wi-Fi adapter through command line?
In addition to ifconfig and networksetup, there's also the airport command. It's in an obscure location, so you have to specify the entire path to it (or make an alias, like I have). I find the -I (sh …
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How can I get my Mac to automatically connect to a given network whenever it becomes available?
It sounds like you may have the phone-hotspot network prioritized over your home wireless network. You can change this in System Preferences -> Network pane -> Wi-Fi service -> Advanced button -> Wi-F …
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Why is Cron not running the enable wifi command?
In addition to possible permissions problem, you might be having trouble because networksetup isn't in the default PATH for cron jobs. The default path for cron jobs includes just /bin and /usr/bin, b …
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Help Writing an AppleScript that waits for a Ping
The first problem is that you're running the ping test once at the beginning, storing the result, and then just checking that same result over and over. But it's a stored result, so it's never going t …
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