[G4] Airport connection problem

[Paul Cooper]

Check the forums at DSL reports. There appears to be a problem on the  
East Coast (Boston, New York, New England in general) where Verizon  
DSL has problems connecting to the internet in the afternoon and  
evening. It has been driving me crazy here in NH for the last month  
at least. Of course when you call tech support this becomes YOUR  
problem and they deny any knowledge of an issue with anyone else.  
Hopefully if enough of us bitch they will address the problem.

Paul
On May 4, 2005, at 12:36 AM, Samuel D. Bays wrote:

> After accepting a Verizon DSL upgrade to 1500/384 in Boston last  
> month, the quality of my DSL service fell off markedly from what I  
> had enjoyed with 750/XXX for several years. Click search on  
> anything in Google and Safari stalls for 5 to 45 seconds, then  
> eventually downloads rapidly.  Speed tests at DSL Reports are  
> great, once they start, but it’s the “starting” that’s  
> unremittingly problematic.
>
> Verizon Tech Support suggested my previous router — a MacSense  
> XRouter Pro MIH 130 — was the culprit, asserting that it was too  
> old to handle the “more powerful” signal of 1500 down. So I bought  
> a Belkin Wireless G Router yesterday, connected up my G4, my son’s  
> Dell Dimension 4100 running WinXP and then tied in my new PowerBook  
> 15-inch so that my wife access the internet, too.
>
> That was yesterday, when everything worked fine. Last night I ran  
> Software Update on the PowerBook and downloaded wirelessly about  
> seven software updates from the Apple server. Then, I shut down.
>
> Today, everyone wanted to get onto the internet at the same time,  
> but the PowerBook would not connect. The Airport Extreme icon  
> showed a little box instead of the radio waves icon, and three  
> hours of fiddling with configurations and searching the internet  
> from my G4 for advice has got me nowhere.
>
> I suppose with last night’s software upgrades I wiped out some  
> configuration data that enables the Airport Extreme card to “find”  
> the Belkin Router and establish the internet connection. But I’m at  
> my wits end, and the pertinent pages in the PowerBook documentation  
> leave me feeling like I missed the introductory networking course  
> and have stumbled into a discussion of the second semester material.
>
> This is very different from my experience in Anaheim last month:  
> while I was searching through my room for the missing ethernet  
> cable to connect via the Marriott’s internet service, my PowerBook  
> automatically found the wireless signal from the Hilton across the  
> street!
>
> Isn’t that the way my home network connection is supposed to work?  
> It did last night.
>
> -- 
> Sam Bays
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