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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: 0s | 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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msbarnett ◴[12 Jul 11 19:44 UTC] No.2756196[source]▶
The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID.

Moving to a router that allowed them to be configured with different SSIDs resolved all my issues.

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1. shinratdr ◴[12 Jul 11 22:31 UTC] No.2756925[source]▶
> The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID.

That is the default behaviour for an Airport Extreme.