Last night my circa 2009 july MBP os 10.6.8 would not access the internet at home.. After playing around I found that for some reason using the ethernet connection I've always used wasn't working. If I unplugged the ethernet the airport wifi would connect and work. I figured I had a problem with my ethernet port. I played with network utility and I couldn't ping a local device, my tek scope without the wifi on. I figured I had a hardware failure. I went into work expecting my ethernet cable to be of no use but with airport off I was able to plug into the ethernet network and it worked fine accessing the internet. I thought that meant the ethernet port was working fine. After all I had airport shut off and my internet was working through the
ethernet cable. I come home tonight and once again the hardwire connection to ethernet does not work. I swapped cables and ports but nothing. I hooked my daughter's mac book up to the ethernet cable and shut her airport off and it worked fine accessing the internet over the same cable I normally use for my MBP. If the cable is good why would my MBP work on the ethernet connection at work but not at home. Nothing has changed on my Airport base station at home. At least I've done nothing to change it. Any suggestions? Also I can access the ethernet connected printer that is connected to the Airport Extreme. Everything is hooked to the Airport Extreme Router and it is feed by my dsl modem through ethernet. All other computers access the internet fine. WTF?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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