So my unibody macbook is going out the window shortly...

Bengaboy · 24 Mar 2009 at 02:18

Unless the bloody wireless doesnt stop going on and off constant...

Its happened ever since I had the macbook, but was putting up with it, but seeing as I spent £949 on this, it had better start to work flawlessly!!

Looking on the net , seems this is a known issue with it - Ive had the unibody macbook since release, what do you think I should do with it - send it back to Apple?

Cheers

Feek · 24 Mar 2009 at 06:09

Absolutely! Get yourself booked into the Genius bar at the closest Apple store to you and get it sorted.

macfb · 24 Mar 2009 at 08:30

Do what I did, Phone them up and complain telling them you need this to be reliable. I did and I got moved from a WhiteBook to the model you and have then from that the the 2.4ghz unibody MacBook. It's worth a shot, you never know what could happen.

p.s try and talk to someone in customer relations.

Jon

mattpj · 24 Mar 2009 at 19:33

i get this but every other day or so. It isn't right at all, I bought mine second hand, will I have any bother?

JAMAL · 24 Mar 2009 at 19:34

I have never had this problem with my unibody, i use a linksys router

Infact it has never dropped a connection!

Feek · 24 Mar 2009 at 19:37

Is the wireless actually switching off and on or is it dropping the connection?

If the latter, try switching your router to a different channel. My daughters Toshiba laptop used to keep dropping on and off of the network until I changed the router from channel 1 to channel 4 and that cured the problem.

mattpj · 24 Mar 2009 at 19:38

me too jamal.. its frustrating when it does drop out. I have to wireless connections in my house and it doesn't matter which one you use!

mattpj · 24 Mar 2009 at 19:39

Feek said:
Is the wireless actually switching off and on or is it dropping the connection?

If the latter, try switching your router to a different channel. My daughters Toshiba laptop used to keep dropping on and off of the network until I changed the router from channel 1 to channel 4 and that cured the problem.

speaking for myself the wireless icon in the topright goes blank i then click this and it says scanning.. after a while my available wireless networks come up

DireEmblem · 24 Mar 2009 at 20:29

so its possibly a problem with crap routers (bebox for example used to drop ALL THE TIME till i changed), or the routers are interfering on the same channel...

mattpj · 24 Mar 2009 at 20:37

had this setup for over a year and only recently got a macbook. On my pc and laptop this doesn't happen. If it happened on all of them i would agree with you !

Bengaboy · 24 Mar 2009 at 20:54

Yep, my router is pretty good - and it only happens on my macbook - never used to happen to my other laptop, or my brothers xbox, or his laptop...

When you spend a grand, you expect the wireless to work dont you!!

Rameses · 24 Mar 2009 at 21:04

Guys try unplugging it, and then take off the battery for a while.

See what happens then, perhaps also delete ur wireless profile and re-do it again.

Av8 · 24 Mar 2009 at 21:28

Hope I'm not speaking too soon but I've got to be honest I've got my uni-body macbook and haven't had any of these problems maybe my wireless setup is why, I have the Apple Time Capsule with their built in wireless router could be a reason.