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Newer Macs Dropping Wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rizzo, Jim)
Tue Sep 18 15:23:30 2012
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From: "Rizzo, Jim" <JRIZZO@providence.edu>
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We've been hearing about an issue with Macs on our campus, mostly newer one=
s with Lion and above, dropping their wireless connections after an hour of=
being connected. We thought it might have been related to the lease time f=
rom our DHCP server. We had an hour lease on all wireless IP addresses. We =
have since increased it to 2 hours, but many of our students (including tho=
se who work for me) have mentioned it still drops after about an hour. If i=
t matters, we use Aruba for our wireless (though I am not really involved o=
n the network side of things, so I can't really tell you more than that).
PC's have no problems. Macs running Windows from a Boot Camp partition also=
have no problems.
Has anyone else out there seen a similar issue? If so, how did you resolve =
it?
Thanks,
Jim
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<div>We've been hearing about an issue with Macs on our campus, mostly newe=
r ones with Lion and above, dropping their wireless connections after an ho=
ur of being connected. We thought it might have been related to the lease t=
ime from our DHCP server. We had
an hour lease on all wireless IP addresses. We have since increased it to =
2 hours, but many of our students (including those who work for me) have me=
ntioned it still drops after about an hour. If it matters, we use Aruba for=
our wireless (though I am not really
involved on the network side of things, so I can't really tell you more th=
an that).</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>PC's have no problems. Macs running Windows from a Boot Camp partition=
also have no problems.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Has anyone else out there seen a similar issue? If so, how did you res=
olve it?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Jim</div>
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<div>Jim Rizzo</div>
</div>
<div>Helpdesk Manager</div>
<div>Providence College Information Technology</div>
<div>(401) 865-1277</div>
<div>AIM: JRizzoPC</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://itweb.providence.edu/helpdesk">http://itweb.providen=
ce.edu/helpdesk</a></div>
<div><a href=3D"http://selfhelp.providence.edu">http://selfhelp.providence.=
edu</a></div>
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<div>Find us on Facebook!</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.facebook.com/ProvCollHelpDesk">http://www.facebo=
ok.com/ProvCollHelpDesk</a></div>
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