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No obstructions just trying to connect wireless it does find network and i click connect but never accepts password.

what encryption is it using?
I know with my old D-Link I had to downgrade to WPA (from WPA2) to get the Mac to work with it.

icemancast wrote:

i am using WPA Pre-Shared Key with TKIP Algorithms with 1000 Group Key Renewal

::checks the settings page::
I'm using WPA2 personal with AES, which works fine.
try that, but only if you have a computer connected directly to the router.

Last edited by FutureDreamz (2008-02-15 8:29 pm)

Try this:
Launch System Preferences->Network -->Show: Airport, and in the box click on the plus sign, it will open a dropdown pane.
fill in the info for the router
The Mac should remember now.

icemancast wrote:

I created new airport connection, gave it network name, wpa shared key it, self assigned ip (like before) shows connected but still no internet.

you mean as in: after a while your internet drops to nothing, while you are still connected to the router, and it seems as if only reconnecting to the router solves that, but part of the time the router refuses to connect you, and sometimes doesn't even show up in the airport menu?


EDIT: oops, I forgot to hit send

Last edited by FutureDreamz (2008-02-15 11:28 pm)

Either the router is bad or the Mac is bad.

Try the Mac at a different location (friend's house or Wi-Fi HotSpot).  If the Mac connects OK you have a bad router.

If the Mac can not connect to a different router you have a hardware or software problem with the Mac.  Take it to an Apple Store and let them fix it.

I had a Linksys router model WRT54G I think it was, that would mercilessly drop the MacBook every so often, sometimes several times a day without any pattern. After countless options changed & forums visited, finally changing the Channel on the router to 11 fixed it. Weird.

Now I'm on a Fios supplied router and not a single issue.

Since you have a combination of PC and Macs (well, a Mac) on your network, you should limit your WPA/WPA2 password to only alphanumeric characters. PCs (running either Windows or Linux) and Macs handle many characters beyond the base set of alphabetic and numeric characters differently, so a password that is acceptable by one set may not be so by the other. You can increase security by lengthening the password like, say, using the lyrics of a favorite song, capitalizing every word, and substituting a number for each of the spaces--this way you could get to the 63/64-character length quite easily.

I should add that the alphanumeric limit should be applied to your LAN's name, too.

Another thing you could use is Steve Gibson's Ultra High Security Password Generator where you can get several passwords of 63- or 64-character length (and new ones are generated each time the page is downloaded, and since it is transferred to you computer via a secure https connection the contents cannot be sniffed) and cut-n-paste one of the alphanumeric versions. Gibson is the tech guy responsible for Security Now which he co-hosts with Leo Laporte, so Gibson knows about security.

Last edited by D'Eyncourt (2008-02-17 4:15 am)