And I thought things were supposed to just work?!

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Couple of problems with my new MacBook.

First up, Airport.

I've been using my MacBook fine wirelessly since I bought it, it picked up the connection fine and I was away. Now today it's decided that it's not going to work. Airport is turned on but it just won't find my wireless network. I've logged onto the router and no settings are any different, other laptops can see the network fine too.

Second problem, Transmission not downloading/connecting to torrents.

I've got UPnP turned on, on my router. I've opened up the network settings and it's set to "automatically map port". On my router it shows the port as 1412, same as port forwarding too. I type this into the network settings on Transmission and after aaaages of waiting I get a "cannot check port status". I've tried lots of different ports (which I know will work fine), tried turning the mapping off etc, nothing makes a bit of difference.

Any ideas? The wireless issue is pretty major and it's putting a downer on the whole Mac goodness thing. :(
 
Justin, restarting seems to have solved the Airport issues. Thanks. What would have caused that though?

I've got Azureus installed now and the torrent is downloading. Seems to be getting around 2-3kbs, although i'l leave it a while to see if this increases. I'm guessing there aren't any issues with ports being open etc as it's working now?

WotDa, It's a Netgear MR814 v2.

PS What the hell is that Vuze thing all about? I remember Azureus being much cleaner/lightweight?
 
Ahhh I see. :)

Cheers Justin, it seems to be working fine now. Will probably let this finish downloading before I have a look around for the older version, don't want to push my luck too far. :p

Another query (last one for now I promose!) regarding HDD space.

I have the MacBook 2.2ghz with the 120GB HDD. It's saying i've got 96GB free, so used around 20GB.

Thats with the Leopard install, (3.3GB of language/printer files removed using the Monolingual program), VNC, FireFox, Adium, Azureus and Transmission installed. Does that sound about right?
 
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