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From: Danny Thompson on 22 Mar 2010 13:24

I know some of you are happily using a Mifi, but I'm having problems
with the one I got a week ago.

It is one of the Novatel 2352 models, on a Vodafone contract.

It worked pretty much out of the box with both our iPhones and with the
2006 Intel iMac, connecting straight away.

However, despite trying everything I can think of I can't get my 15"
2.16Ghz Macbook Pro to connect wirelessly.

It will work when connected via USB, but nothing will induce it to do so
when not tethered.

I've tried every setting I can think of - broadcasting the SSID and not;
WEP, WPA, open - and with two different sim cards in it.

Each time the iPhones and iMac connect faultlessly - but the Airport
icon on the MBP shuffles up-and-down for a bit then displays an
exclamation mark in the middle of the icon.

It is now really annoying me.

Any ideas?

Danny
From: Flavio Matani on 22 Mar 2010 13:35
Danny Thompson <danny(a)itshouldbe.harrietbarber.obvious.com> wrote:

> I know some of you are happily using a Mifi, but I'm having problems
> with the one I got a week ago.
>
> It is one of the Novatel 2352 models, on a Vodafone contract.
>
> It worked pretty much out of the box with both our iPhones and with the
> 2006 Intel iMac, connecting straight away.
>
> However, despite trying everything I can think of I can't get my 15"
> 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro to connect wirelessly.
>
> It will work when connected via USB, but nothing will induce it to do so
> when not tethered.
>
> I've tried every setting I can think of - broadcasting the SSID and not;
> WEP, WPA, open - and with two different sim cards in it.
>
> Each time the iPhones and iMac connect faultlessly - but the Airport
> icon on the MBP shuffles up-and-down for a bit then displays an
> exclamation mark in the middle of the icon.
>
> It is now really annoying me.
>
> Any ideas?

I have had that but very occasionally with a macbook (not pro, old black
plastic) and a 3 mifi (a Huawei E5830). I've never figured out what's
going on when it happens but a restart on the macbook cures it every
time. It being a different mifi and network might mean the behaviour in
mine is not related to the problem in yours..

I also (on very rare occasions) get the exclamation mark thing with the
macbook and my house BeBox and, again, nothing will cure it apart from a
re-start, in this case sometimes just restarting the BeBox.

One thought: can you control the mifi box from a web page? I imagine so,
since you mention changing security settings, etc. Have you tried
changing the channel it is broadcasting at?



--
flavio matani
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http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk
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From: SteveH on 22 Mar 2010 13:38
Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote:

> Have you tried
> changing the channel it is broadcasting at?

^ This.

When I had a BT Home Hub, leaving it set to 'auto channel' caused many
issues.
--
SteveH
From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 15:21
Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote:

> Danny Thompson <danny(a)itshouldbe.harrietbarber.obvious.com> wrote:
>
> > I know some of you are happily using a Mifi, but I'm having problems
> > with the one I got a week ago.
> >
> > It is one of the Novatel 2352 models, on a Vodafone contract.
> >
> > It worked pretty much out of the box with both our iPhones and with the
> > 2006 Intel iMac, connecting straight away.
> >
> > However, despite trying everything I can think of I can't get my 15"
> > 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro to connect wirelessly.
> >
> > It will work when connected via USB, but nothing will induce it to do so
> > when not tethered.
> >
> > I've tried every setting I can think of - broadcasting the SSID and not;
> > WEP, WPA, open - and with two different sim cards in it.
> >
> > Each time the iPhones and iMac connect faultlessly - but the Airport
> > icon on the MBP shuffles up-and-down for a bit then displays an
> > exclamation mark in the middle of the icon.
> >
> > It is now really annoying me.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> I have had that but very occasionally with a macbook (not pro, old black
> plastic) and a 3 mifi (a Huawei E5830). I've never figured out what's
> going on when it happens but a restart on the macbook cures it every
> time. It being a different mifi and network might mean the behaviour in
> mine is not related to the problem in yours..
>
> I also (on very rare occasions) get the exclamation mark thing with the
> macbook and my house BeBox and, again, nothing will cure it apart from a
> re-start, in this case sometimes just restarting the BeBox.

I get the question mark (not with the mifi) sometimes in the evening
when the network drops. Turning the network off and on again on the mac
works fine.


--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
From: Danny Thompson on 26 Mar 2010 08:20
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Danny Thompson <danny(a)itshouldbe.harrietbarber.obvious.com> wrote:
> >

Thanks everyone.

Tried all of that and more.

No luck.

The problem is with the MBP, wirelessly. Everything else works fine.

Kind of stuck now.

Danny

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