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New Macbook, Networking and the lack thereof.
joshua1
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Hey all, I am the new proud owner of a macbook air. Its pretty damn amazing, but since this is my first mac, I was just wondering if anyone could point me towards places that would help me become more of a power user. I.e. not a total noob. I had to help the Mac help line figure out how to get remote disk working. (the user guide helpfully did not tell me to enable filesharing on MY side, which was preventing me from using an adhoc networked PC's DVD drive.) They had no idea.
Well, moving on. At home I just got optus broadband, with a wireless router which for some reason is completely useless. Even completely unencrypted, I can only connect once in a blue moon, and then I can't access the internet. This isn't only on the new mac, my other laptops can't connect either (sometimes only very briefly). To work around this, i plugged a wireless hub into the router. This worked for the non-macs but not my new macbook. It has simple 64-bit WEP encryption. Anyone have any ideas?
Well, moving on. At home I just got optus broadband, with a wireless router which for some reason is completely useless. Even completely unencrypted, I can only connect once in a blue moon, and then I can't access the internet. This isn't only on the new mac, my other laptops can't connect either (sometimes only very briefly). To work around this, i plugged a wireless hub into the router. This worked for the non-macs but not my new macbook. It has simple 64-bit WEP encryption. Anyone have any ideas?
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You haven't provided enough information to be of help, which is certainly why I didn't reply. Try turning off the WEP on the hub and see what happens.