A month ago, I installed an ATT Microcell (VERY cool if you live in the country) and all was ok until about 2 weeks ago. (connection error's affected safari, mail, backup, firefox, intego-netupdate)Ĭlearly there's a ton of us out here with the SAME PROBLEM. I have no idea what stops and what starts the problem. Then about 11pm it springs back to life enabling me to write this. Put it to sleep at 10am and woke it 8.30pm up pressing the space bar with no connection again went through all the same procedures of checking and double checking settings. This morning got up started machine 8.45am no problem with internet connection on safari and itunes.
Spent 1.5 hours trying to figure out what went wrong before giving up and going to bed. about 6pm left it to go to sleep 7.30, then woke it up 3 hours later. It's happened twice in the last 24 hours, started up when I got in from work read emails etc. I've tried restarts and shutdowns then after a about 2 hours with no obvious outcome by checking settings etc., things return to normal as if nothing had gone wrong.
I have suffered the same problem after waking the imac from sleep mode, it seems to forget how to link with the web, I can see my wireless router in safari which tells me there isn't a problem with my network or internet connection. I hope my struggles actually help someone I got a message saying there is no assigned IP address so I went back into >advanced>TCP/IP and turned on Using DHCP, Hit "Renew DHCP Lease" and it finally created a brand new IP address 10.
Here's what finally worked: Again in System Preferences>Network> I turned Wi-Fi off, Went to Advanced>TCP/IP>Configure IPv4 and changed it to off, hit "OK", Highlighted Wi-Fi in the left column, hit the - sign on the bottom left, deleting it, then hit the + and created it. IP as before and still not working 6) I changed the from a 162. but no actual connection 5) I deleted "Wi Fi" from the left panel and recreated it using the + and - buttons on the bottom of the left pane and hit renew DHCP address, but it recreated the same 162. the green light again went on and it said connected under "wi fi" in the left panel of the preferences.
but no actual connection 4) I changed the Manual IP address to Match my working Connected Mac. the green light went on and it said connected under wi fi in the left panel of the preferences. nothing 3)I went into System Preferences > under TCP/IP I changed the Configure IPv4 to "Using DHCP Manually" and used an IP address close to the one from my other mac which was connected just fine. I attempted the tricks that people posted here: 1) Turned off and back on the wi fi. due to the "self assigned IP address" message.
First it worked two days ago at the same coffee shop, the only thing that had changed was the password, however no matter how many times I entered the password in the different forms. Like often happens when a Mac quirk shows up I just wasted hours of my life and finally got it to work. I am very frustrated with the situation as I, like most people, require internet access for both school and work.Īny help, tips, or advice on the situation would be grateful. I HAVE ALREADY TRIED RESTARTING both my Mac and my router, I have reset the router, I have restored original settings in both Safari and my router, I have tried removing the security from our network in order to connect without a password, I have tried re-configuring the router to work with Macs.all no success. No success.Īpple charged me $49 to talk to them, with no success. I have been on the phone with At&t many times trying to troubleshoot and fix the problem. My roommates connect to use our wireless network with their PC's just fine, and my Mac connects to other wireless service at school and work and works just fine.
Since, my computer "connects" to my network, accepts my password, and shows full signal, but when I open Safari, or any other app that requires internet, I just get the "failed to open page because you are not connected to the internet" page. I recently switch wireless service at home to At&t.