At home I use the small Airport Express Base Station and so far without any problems. It worked perfect and I enjoyed my browsing wirelessly. And then, a couple of weeks ago my Intel iMac could not find my network or my Base Station anymore. I thought that’s odd. I have also a Macbook in use at home and it had no problems to go online via the same network. Both machines run Leopard and the software package is similar too and so the up-dates.
First, the network disappeared on the iMac randomly, came back and went again somewhere and so on. To keep the connection I left the iMac running days and nights. But finally came the day where I had to shut down the machine and to restart it. The wireless connection was gone. The iMac could not find the Base Station again and my search for proper solutions started. Either restarts of the Base Station or resetting were helpful. It did not work and the strangest thing for me was, the Macbook was still online, with the same set up and so on. I was looking on thousands of forum sites and as I was close to give up I found the solution.
The Base Station was running with the 6.3.3 update and that caused the problems with my Airport. With a re-update to 6.1.1 came the connection and everything back! So if you have any problems with your wireless connection and your Airport does not find the Base Station or your network I really recommend the step above. Good luck and all the best!
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