My MacBook Air goes everywhere with me. Now just because I have it, doesn't mean that I get to.
There has been an ongoing problem with the MacBook Air (and various other models of MacBook's - based on reports from friends) implementation of Wi-Fi.
The problem showed up when I was on campus at Sun and when I was at hotels that had multiple base stations. Apparently a WiFi network made up of multiple base stations all communicating with the same SSID confused the Mac and it ended up freaking out and not establishing a connection or being able to maintain such a connection.
There were multiple workarounds being used by folks such as pinging the default gateway/router, or bringing their own router and plugging it into the hardline networks. These both seemed silly to me ;-)
Eventually I found a post HERE that has been working fine for the last couple of hours. If it should fail I can go back to using the MacBook Air ethernet adapter. It looks like the issue is based on having a "location" named in your pref's.
Before this fix I would get dropped constantly (think like every 15 seconds or so) and the only way to recover the connection was by selecting the Airport Icon in the toolbar (upper right hand corner). When I hit the icon, the connection would magically fix itself .... bizarre
weird... this should be something that Apple fixes ;-) At least now I can be online in Maui without too much interruption.
kyle
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