Comments on: OS X Leopard Airport Scanning Driving You Crazy? A Possible Fix

By: mokum von Amsterdam

mokum von Amsterdam — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:06:35 +0000

Same horror here: perfect signal but no traffic going through the air. Only a stop & start of the Airport in my MBP [unibody late 2008] restores functionality.
Ranging from removing IPv6 to changing channels, from ditching my WRT54GS to buying an Airport Extreme, from airport radar widget to KisMAC I have tried it all… with 0 result.

I have 4 macs & iPhones. The iPhones are the only devices working flawlessly.

And of course if I boot any other OS [XP via bootcamp, Linux&BSD via USB stick or CD] then the wireless works flawlessly.

My Wi-Spy 2.4x [see http://www.metageek.net/ is not of too much use since it does not work with the 'n' [5Ghz] range.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:17:21 +0000

I’m still learning my way around the MacBook and stumbled across this thread looking for a solution to the airport issue… but I do know something about networking

Unless you have an advanced configuration, your router is most likely your gateway as well. To find your gateway address, open a terminal window and type:

netstat -nr

And look for the line that says “default” in the destination column. The IP address in the Gateway column is probably your router.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:15:02 +0000

This thread was fascinating to me, as well as very discouraging. I’ve had these same problems with my MacBook Pro since I switched to Leopard a while back. I tried all the solutions about with no luck. The most frustrating thing about it is that my older iBook G4 (running 10.4) can sit right next to my MacBook Pro and get perfect signal and connectivity. I think I may try to take them both to an Apple store and show them how ridiculous this is.

By: BCW

BCW — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:26:50 +0000

FWIW…

I happened on this thread because I was having the problem with an Intel Mac Mini running 10.5.6 and 10.5.7.

I have an external hard drive that normally sits on top of the Mini. After trying many of the suggestions from posts on this thread and elsewhere, and getting nowhere, it occurred to me that perhaps some subtle shift in position of the HDD unit was somehow interfering with the Airport antenna. I moved the HDD about a foot away – problem solved immediately.

I suspect there are many causes for this issue, but if you have other equipment near your Mac, simply moving stuff around is a pretty easy thing to try.

Good luck, all…

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:37:09 +0000

I have this problem with rpeated scanning on Airport on my 2 year old MacBook. It is driving me crazy as well. I live in the country so there are no competing networks. When I go to Airport Utility it doesn’t even show my wireless network regardless of how close i am to it physically. I am using a Linksys Wireless G router.

Any ideas?

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:31:38 +0000

I don’t quite believe it. The Airport Extreme patch by itself didn’t work. Desperation overriding my natural skepticism, I removed the airport status icon from my toolbar and, voila: fast internet connection on every site I’ve tried. One click solves MONTHS of frustration with scanning.

By: charter57

charter57 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:09:21 +0000

So I have an iMac and have heard that my problem is everything from a crowded 2.4 GHz band to the aluminum casing around my computer causing interference. Whatever it is, I’ve (KNOCK ON WOOD) solved the problem simply by changing the channel on my router. I just logged on my router’s IP site and fiddled with the channel. I was on the default (6) and first tried 9 which didn’t work (perhaps because it was too close to the 11’s and 6’s that are operating in my vicinity according to AP Scanner. Then I tried 3, which was totally out of the way of local traffic. Problem solved.