Glynda
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Bluegreen Points Lodge Alley Inn.
Brewster Green (two weeks).
A few months ago we put a new Netgear router in our den downstairs along with an ORBI wireless modem. Upstairs we added one ORBI satellite. We have Comcast/Xfinity service. Since doing so we have been having frequent, but intermittent, problems connecting our MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops to WIFI. It’s been getting worse. Sometimes if we turn off WIFI on our Macs, restart then, and then turn WIFI back on each, we will be successful. However, if we should walk away from them for a few minutes then come back, we will no longer have a connection. The strange thing is that we do have a good WIFI connection on our iPhones and the iPad sitting in the exact same spots in the den. This leads me to believe that it is some sort of problem with our Macs. I do need to add that we have three CPI security cameras which are plugged into a CPI link (router or modem?) and the CPI link is plugged into the ORBI modem. When the CPI installer added this link and was shown the laptop problem, he ran tests and showed is that we had a strong signal and he didn’t have a clue why our Macs wouldn’t connect while our phones would but insisted it was not because of their connection. However, prior to adding the new Netgear router and ORBI modem, we had a combination router/modem by Motorola and our Macs were so much slower that one day I yanked the camera cables from it and we had decent service again. Can anyone help?