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Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?

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354 points timdoug | 1 comments | 12 Jul 11 17:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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troels ◴[12 Jul 11 17:48 UTC] No.2755659[source]▶
Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi. I often have to try multiple times and some times I give up, have to walk over to the router and restart it before I can get on. Probably an issue with the router ultimately, but I don't have this problem with other devices.
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1. cbs ◴[12 Jul 11 19:18 UTC] No.2756081[source]▶
Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi.

There are certain networks they loathe to connect to and I haven't been able to find a common cause. The 802.1x authentication at college took lots of fiddling around on my mac every time I tried to connect, while all my other devices worked fine.