I'm having trouble staying connected to my wireless router. To my knowledge, nothing has changed except for the fact that I upgraded to Mac Lion OS. If I remember correctly, it happened before that too but not to this degree. It's several times a day at this point. I either have to reboot or fiddle with reconnecting to the router again.
Sleeping seems to have nothing to do with the disconnect. It does it when it wants to.
Wiring things up isn't the answer for one of the computers.
Anyone else with issues on this and how you resolved it? Thanks!
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Wireless connections should be pretty stable provided signal strength is good, which will be affected not only by distance from the router but the number of walls (or floors) the signal has to travel through.
Your Mac should have a wireless signal strength indicator on the menu bar up where the time is displayed. If all the "bars" are full you shouldn't be having any connection problems.
If the signal is weak say because of going across the house, through walls or floors, you might need to add more wireless access points closer to the computers/devices having problems.
If the signal is strong but it keeps getting dropped, it could be the router. These things can tend to go wonky from time to time and need to be replaced. I've had everything from Linksys, D-Link, Siemens and Cisco systems routers all shoot craps after a year or two of use.
It may also be some other source of radio interference in the house.
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