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I have a wireless network at home consisting of a cable modem into a Linksys wireless router. I have one PC hardwired out of the router and two other PCs that connect to the router wirelessly. Everything there works fine. I recently got a Macbook Pro and cannot get it to connect to the internet through the router. It sees the router but will not connect. I have turned off encryption and MAC filtering...still no connection. Now to my question. A friend said he had a similar problem with several PCs on a home network...the wireless PCs could see the router but not connect. He said he simply put an ethernet switch (hub) between the modem and the router and his wireless PCs connected. For the life of me, I don't understand how that could work, but if it is logical I would give it a try. Any info will be appreciated.
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Wireless setup, does this make sense?
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smax013 
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Posted 24 August 2007 - 09:12 AM
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I have a wireless network at home consisting of a cable modem into a Linksys wireless router. I have one PC hardwired out of the router and two other PCs that connect to the router wirelessly. Everything there works fine. I recently got a Macbook Pro and cannot get it to connect to the internet through the router. It sees the router but will not connect. I have turned off encryption and MAC filtering...still no connection. Now to my question. A friend said he had a similar problem with several PCs on a home network...the wireless PCs could see the router but not connect. He said he simply put an ethernet switch (hub) between the modem and the router and his wireless PCs connected. For the life of me, I don't understand how that could work, but if it is logical I would give it a try. Any info will be appreciated.
I have a wireless network at home consisting of a cable modem into a Linksys wireless router. I have one PC hardwired out of the router and two other PCs that connect to the router wirelessly. Everything there works fine. I recently got a Macbook Pro and cannot get it to connect to the internet through the router. It sees the router but will not connect. I have turned off encryption and MAC filtering...still no connection. Now to my question. A friend said he had a similar problem with several PCs on a home network...the wireless PCs could see the router but not connect. He said he simply put an ethernet switch (hub) between the modem and the router and his wireless PCs connected. For the life of me, I don't understand how that could work, but if it is logical I would give it a try. Any info will be appreciated.
I cannot think of a reason why adding in a switch would cause the WiFi to connect, but if that friend swears by it, ask him if you can borrow the switch and try it with your network. I am betting that it will NOT work and that it was just some sort of coincidence.
As to your problem, you have done just about everything that I would recommend. About the only other thing that I would suggest is to maybe completely reset the router to default setting (I think for a Linksys, you hold down the reset button for something like 10 seconds typically) and try it again with no security (encryption or MAC filtering) setup. It could be that something is "stuck".
If that does not work, it just might be that the WiFi chipset in the MacBook Pro does not like the WiFi chipset in the router. When my dad's old Netgear router died and went to get him a new one, I tried a Linksys at first. But, I could not get it to work with his MacBook Pro. So, I returned it and got a Buffalo that I was eventually able to get to work fine.
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