Macbook won't connect?

[dunkyd]

My daughter moved into a new house. Her iPhone connects perfectly with the house router wirelessly. Using the same password, her laptop won't connect. Keeps saying 'connection timeout' ? 2 other girls have laptops connected using the password. Any ideas out there? No responce from the Apple forum in 5 days. She lives on Channel Islands with extremely fast internet in case that matters ?

 

[StbA]

The router is old and its security setting needs to change.

 

[phiber]

Netgear router? I usually just try a few times and it connects... quite irritating. Often restarting the router helps.

 

[macboer]

Also try postin gthe question on forum.maccast.com The people there are extremely helpful.

 

[dunkyd]

Thanks, still waiting for the name of the router ! Washing her hair I suppose.....

 

[phiber]

Thanks, still waiting for the name of the router ! Washing her hair I suppose.....

hahaha, brilliant! Apple did say they fixed this a while back, but its not only you. Have a few macbook floating around the house, and all experience the same issues from time to time (but its random and about 30% of the time). They do eventually connect. There was a fix released in 10.6.2 or somewhere around there that made it less frequent, but it does happen. Only started happening to me when I got a netgear, and chatted to a few other people with Linksys who don't experience this problem.

 

[bwana]

My daughter moved into a new house. Her iPhone connects perfectly with the house router wirelessly. Using the same password, her laptop won't connect. Keeps saying 'connection timeout' ? 2 other girls have laptops connected using the password. Any ideas out there? No responce from the Apple forum in 5 days. She lives on Channel Islands with extremely fast internet in case that matters ?

Frustrating to say the least. Restarting my MacBook pro tends to sort out.

 

[Sputnik]

You could try creating a new location in the network preferences, this some times helps. You could try a newer router.

 

[dunkyd]

Sadly , nothing technical can be done. They can switch on phones, sms and shop ! I will pass on all info and try and talk her thru it via Skype to the phone tonight. Thanks all.

 

[Sputnik]

Frustrating to say the least. Restarting my MacBook pro tends to sort out.

Try deleting the keychain entry for the wireless network and re-adding the network again.