Apple Wireless

The MacBook Pro now successfully connects to my wireless router! Huzzah!

Do you want to know the secret? Well, if you read my previous blog post, you’d know. I ordered an Airport Extreme Base Station.

Seems like now is a good time to evaluate this process…..

1. Buy a Mac and expect it to work with your wireless network; Macs are excellent at connecting to anything you have – ‘things just work’ as the adverts have it
2. Spend hours trying to get your Mac to connect to your existing wireless network which your WM5 phone, your work laptop, your personal laptop can all connect to at all levels of security
3. Discover that your Apple MacBook Pro can connect to the wireless network if you have already had that laptop on the wireless network when you BootCamp’ed into Vista
4. Think, wait a minute, Vista can connect – I thought Vista was crap and Macs ‘just worked’
5. Read lots of forums and blogs and find that lots of people have similar problems.
6. Order the Apple Wireless base station and see if it works
7. The Apple Wireless base station ‘just works!’

So now I have a new router. This new router sits on top of my old router as my old router has an adsl modem built-in! As with all Apple equipment though, it looks lovely.

Tags: Apple, MacBook+Pro, Vista, Wireless, Airport+Extreme+Base+Station