One of the troubles is that my Dell laptop has trouble getting a network address from it, nearly all of the time; it takes so long that usually the little pop-up box for "Network has limited connectivity" pops up, and then a few seconds later it actually gets an address. (Once it's connected, though, it generally works quite well, without any further issues.) This seems to happen to a lot of other people, too. But it's been doing that since I brought it home; that's not really the baffling thing -- though, if there were a way to fix that, I'd be happy.
The baffling thing, though, is that in the past couple of weeks or so,
I am not sure if this timing is correlated with when I did a firmware update on the Airport or not; I think it may have been. I did another update a few days ago, which appears to have fixed some issues that I was having with flaky connectivity (dropped packets, etc.) in my laptop, but Suzi's is still having problems.
Any ideas? Perhaps some new setting that I ought to set differently, or something like that?
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