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What's causing my Macbook air not see WiFi unless I turn on & connect via mobile hotspot first?

I have this weird problem with my MacBook Air. And this happens quite often. My macbook doesn't show my home WiFi on the available WiFi list. It searches for wireless networks and I can see other ...
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Mac mail can't send over home WiFi

Hoping someone can provide some suggestions - this one's got me scratching my head! For a few months now, I've had problems sending e-mail from Mac mail. It's a hosted account with a well-known ...
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Internet Connection Super Slow on Mac but not on iPhone on the same network

I have a wireless home network with 2 clients - My mac, and my iPhone. Over the past month, I have noticed that the internet speed on my mac is really slow. I get 100kbps on my 512kbps (third world ...
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Access web server on Windows computer from Mac on browser which are on same Network

I have a laptop with Apache installed on Windows 10 I have another laptop with Mac installed, both are connected to same Wifi network. I want to access Web Server of Windows from Mac's browser. ...
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Access my camera from the internet

I bought a camera put it inside my home to watch over my dog when I m not there. So far it's only visible on the local network, so when I m connected to wifi, using any device I can view camera/move ...
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Internet Sharing on OS X Mavericks stopped working

I have an iMac with OS X Mavericks (10.9) installed. I've been using the Internet Sharing feature to connect to other devices regularly, but since last week the Internet Sharing option has stopped ...
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Indoor Positioning System

We are developing an indoor positioning system. And for locating the indoor position we are using Wi-Fi, as we know GPS does not work properly inside a building so it was ruled out. As I was going ...
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Using custom-defined IP address vs DHCP on Different Networks

On Mac OSX, is it possible to let the computer obtain a specific IP address (192.168.1.123) on wireless network #1, and let DHCP assign it a dynamic IP address on all other wireless entworks?
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Why does my MacBook Pro wireless networking stop working?

I have a network that looks like this: wireless router: 192.168.1.1 Linux machine: 192.168.1.16 (via cable) Mac machine: 192.168.1.17 (via wireless) Windows machine: 192.168.1.18 (via wireless) ...
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OS X advanced wireless adapter configuration

Windows drivers typically offer advanced configuration options for wireless adapters. For example, you can specify a frequency, network standard, or adjust roaming aggressiveness. Unfortunately, ...
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Mac share ethernet connection with proxy over wifi without proxy

I have a wired connection over a proxy server, and I'd like to share it over wireless to my iPad / other devices without proxy. Is there some software or something that allows me to do this?
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Sharing Wireless Connection with Mac

There is a wireless network secured with WPA 2.We have a mac and a old XP. Unfortunately, the XP is not updated to connect to WPA 2 networks, but we cannot change the security settings on the router. ...
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Mac: Internet blocked over WiFi

I'm not sure how it's happened but for some reason when using a shared internet connection on my iMac (OS X Lion) all internet traffic is now blocked from being sent to my other devices. However ...
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How do I improve wireless connectivity on my MacBook running Ubuntu?

I recently installed Ubuntu on my MacBook and it's great. The only problem is the Internet speed... on Mac OS X it is much faster which doesn't surprise me because both have been optimized to run fast....
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802.11n and network slowdown

My router, 1st generation AirPort Extreme, is 802.11n 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz capable. Whenever I turn it on, instead of 802.11b/g/n the network slows down considerably within a few days. This probably is ...
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