Airport connection dropping off - how to fix it
Sun, 18 May 2008
Boy, can it be frustrating when your wireless network starts dropping every few minutes!
First it works fine, then the traffic stops even though the Airport indicator shows the full signal. When I click on it, the status shows as “Airport: Scanning” then after a few seconds it’s “On” and the traffic goes fine. Minute later it stalls again.
Endless reboots, change from Airport Extreme base station back to my old WGR614 Netgear router, changes and tweaks at both ends, dozens of tips and tricks in different forums, all tried, and nothing helps.
Then a friend of mine suggested to delete a few preference files and the things are working perfectly fine now.
Here is what to do: go to your user preferences folder (~/Library/Preferences) and delete all files containing com.apple.internet… I found only two files - com.apple.internetconfig.plist and com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist, backed them up and then deleted both.
The wireless connection works like a charm now.
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a said: Sun, 18 May 2008 at 22:39
If that works, I owe you!! :D
Felix said: Wed, 2 July 2008 at 19:07
i have the exact same problem but when i search my mac none of those files are there =(.
Rick S said: Sun, 6 July 2008 at 02:12
I tried using spotlight to look for these items but couldn’t find them. Then I looked manually, found them, backed them up, deleted them and, at this point my connection seems faster than ever.