Mac Error Confusion

By on Jan 6, 2008 · 1 Comment 

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Last month I was in Vancouver for a round of taping of the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show when this somewhat odd error window pop’s up on my screen.

“The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute.”

I have never in my years seen this one, even had everyone on set stumped. Any ideas? I’d like to know if this has popped up on anyone else’s screen.

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  • Henrik Jensen

    I’d like to know too! At work I’m a lone Apple user in a Windows / LinkSys environment and I’m constantly being interrupted by this while all my XP and Vista co-workers just teases me by happily continuing on.

    The only explaination that I’ve found so far has to do with TKIP. If the signal drops below tolerance during a key renewal, it should cause this error. Switching to AES “should” resolve this but I’m not entirely convinced. I switched the company network (much to the annoyance of everyone) and while I’m not seeing this popup as much as I did before, I’m still dropped off the network just as as frequently as before.

    It seems to be something that could be improved upon considering how my Windows co-workers don’t experience this.

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