Have a customer who has been running a Mac - connected to wifi on a Mikrotik RB951 router/access point. Has worked well for a long time. The Mac is around 10 years old.
When trying to connect to his wlan recently he couldn't see the wlan. The Mac detected, however, a couple of near-by networks.

I did some checking and found that I could  see the network and log on from my windows PC and from my Samsung phone without any problems. Customer could also see the network and log on from his iPhone. Tried to define a new network on the Mac by entering the ssid and the password, but got message "Network not found".

Tried to turn off the WPA2 encryption and run witout any encryption, and then he could connect without any problem.

This problem seems to have shown up after upgrading to Router OS 6.43.8.
Downgrading to previous version (6.42.6), but it didn't change anything.

Had a very similar problem with another customer also with a Mikrotik hap ac lite. After upgrading to Router OS 6.43.8, apple devices got connection problems. Replaced it wirh a Ubiquiti unifi ap, and the apple devices started to connect properly again.

Any ideas why Apple produkts seems to have these wifi connection issues?

P.S.  Have also posted this quesiton in the Mikrotik forum.

-Olaf-

I got Apple TV 4k device as a gift.  Don't know how it works.  
Do I need to subscribe for it or can I watch stuff for free?  and another question in general.   How does it compare to roku or chromecast?
Thanks in advance!

Apple Airport vs. eero mesh network - iPad Pro wireless network loses connection 

As Apple is ceasing manufacturing Airport router, l want to replace with router with greater signal in 2335 sq. ft. single story rectangular home. Issue is MLB.TV signal. Currently Spectrum signal is 100 mbps with Cat5 connection @ Mac OS. Wireless is less than 60 mbps. At opposite end of house iOS signal is less than 30mbps Ookla).

No MLB.TV connection issues with Apple TV CAT5 connected to router.

Frequent MLB.TV  signal loss with iPad Pro, similar loss with YouTube, both require iPad reboot. Message suggests trying alternate account for login - not true, reboot required.

Would something like eero 2nd gen. Mesh network help?

I have had a few people tell me that when trying to visit a site using safari on their iPhones, they get an error that says:

Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found.

I asked other people to test on their iPhones and they said it works fine. After asking Google about this it seems that the answer is always something to do with the phone itself. But, it is not realistic to ask everyone with an iPhone to check this setting, and check that setting in order to try use the website.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this?

I really know very little about Macs.

A friend sent me this about his macBook laptop

I was updating my hard drive with my external hard drive this morning and the computer froze midway through. I turned the computer off and unplugged the external hard drive which may have been my first mistake. The entire hard drive seems to be deleted and I have no operating system. The computer starts up and goes to a list of OSX reinstallation options. At this point I don’t want screw anything else up. I last backed up in mid April so I won’t lose that much considering I send most files out by email.  Can you help get me going?

Anyone know where to start with this? He was using time machine - is that an  image of the hard drive / we restore the image and we're done?  Or is it just backup of certain files / folders? We'd have to install the OS, apps, configuration, .etc?  HGe talked of removing the external hard drive... not sure if he corrupted that too?

Would anyone care to share some advice where to start to get that machine going again?

The machine is only a couple years old.

Somehow, I have a 'mac os and install disk 1' for 10.5.4.  taht's copyright date of 2008.  (NOT from his machine, just a disk I have on my shelf.

And I have a bunch of USB disks if there's a place / need to download the OS.

But I have no clue where to start.

Thanks!

How can I script:

Install all PKG in /foldername

Maybe write log somewhere too....

Thanks

What are the best software programs for performing file comparisons between 2 different folder locations within a Mac OS X computer?

I need to find out which files and folders exist in one location that don't exist in the other location and if there are any differences between the files within the two folder locations.

How can I determine the last time that a Mac OS X computer was rebooted or shut down?

PArdon the dumb question.  Not really an Apple Person. I have to install an IMAC w/ an Airport Time Capsule at a client's location tomorrow. They have an existing wireless network but, I'm not sure if it is Apple or not. How do you configure the Airport to use the existing wireless network?  Of note. the location is very large and the Time Capsule won't be near the Modem or router.

setting up AirPort Time Capsule to only work as backup disk (and not as wifi router)

I want to use my Apple Time Capsule just as a network attached backup drive and not a router.

This what I have done:

(I got the following instructions off of apple.stackexchange.com)

To prevent the Time Capsule from acting as a WiFi access point or router, and use it only as a backup disk, just open the AirPort Utility app on a Mac (Applications -> Utilities -> AirPort Utility) and do the following:

1. Select your Time Capsule and hit Edit.
2. Go to the tab labeled Wireless
3. From the Network Mode pop-up menu, choose Off.
4. Click Update, and the base station will restart and load the new settings.

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OK. So I did all that. The AirPort Time Capsule restarted. But now the computer cannot find it when I go in to the AirPort Utility.

See screenshot:

Oh boy. So now what did I do?

I think that the instructions that I got from that website lead me on the wrong path.