My wireless network appears to have been compromised Here's an interesting message dialog that I just got on my new laptop:
The full text states "The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute."
This happened when I had connected to my MacBook Pro from a wired Mac Mini and was transferring some files between them. The MacBook Pro was also downloading a file inside Parallels at the same time. The local network is on a TrendNET router using WPA-PSK as the wireless security option.
I'm pretty sure this is a false alarm. Googling the message returns a few other people who have seen it, and one of them mentions a TrendNET router is involved.
21 comments | Happened to me too - usually when transferring large files through a wireless network. | | |
| Yeah, I've had this thing happen a few more times since I posted this. It's somewhat annoying. | | |
This has happened to me too. I'm surprised I don't find more information about it. Worst is that this time, the network won't come back. Looks like Mac OS X wireless driver has failed. I was making heavy use of the link, receiving a big file and sending it to an NFS mounted drive.
Mac OS X has not been good to me the last few days. Many crashes, hangs. I don't think the system is corrupted, I think I'm doing things that are apparently out of the mainstream. Not looking very impressive in the stability department.
I am NOT using a Trendnet router, I'm using a DLink. | | |
| I have a Dlink router and it keeps happening to me. Especially when I'm uploading a lot. | | |
I've been getting this message a lot all of a sudden. I get it about 3 or 4 times and I have to turn airport off and on again to be able to re-connect.
I'm going to change my router password just to be sure.
I'm running a Linksys WEP54G router with default firmware (replacing one with a dd-wrt firmware flash). | | |
| erm wrt54g router... with WPA encryption. | | |
This problem is still happening on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, unfortunately.
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I get the problem every time I wake my macbook up from sleep. To work around I cannot let the macbook go to sleep while connected to the wifi. I shut off airport, then close the lid.
Annoying, but better than the restart that it normally requires.
Does anyone know the service that controls airport? I suspect that a kill of the service would trigger launchd to respawn and may fix the issue without a restart. Two post Leopard updates have addressed ominous wireless issues now with no success in addressing this. | | |
| I don't need to restart my mac to get wireless back, just wait a minute and re-select the network in the menu. | | |
Hope this might help... I just installed a WRT600N, dual band wireless... and was having this issue (never did this with my 'old' WRT300N)... I could copy a 2gb file from my NAS to my iMac and it would raise this error EVERY time. I ended up setting my WPA2 to use AES instead of TKIP and it SOLVED the problem... I have copied the test file over 10 times now and it is perfect! I'm getting 270 Mbit/s solid to my AP and that 2gb file copied over in 4 minutes flat!
Hope this might help with others having this problem. Am running 10.5.1. | | |
| I to have been getting the message. "The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute" I do have my sister who is in the other room also running on the same router. It's a Netgear dual wireless router. Any suggestions on how to make this stop? | | |
I was having this problem while using a macbook pro connected to a Linksys WRT54Gv8 with DD-WRT installed. It would show up most often while using Skype. Switching from TKIP to AES solved the problem immediately!
Thanks for the help.
Good luck! | | |
I got this error when I installed a Linksys WRT610n.
Had to specify "open system" in Authentication type instead of "auto". The problem is gone now. | | |
| This is enough to make me go back to PC. I made the switch and got this Mac Book Pro and I constantly get this message. I have looked at tons of people having this problem and there has been no fix. I am using a Netgear WRT600N (it still happens with my linksys router too) and have used TKIP and AES, as well as a combination of both. I have plenty of other wireless devices in my home all of which have no problem. Maybe there will eventually be a fix for this... | | |
| I'm using a Linksys WRT610N dual n wireless router, and I've received the same message on my 2.16 ghz macbook and my 2.4 ghz aluminum imac. I haven't been able to nail down any specific circumstances that cause it. I know it's not a problem with the network, it's wpa2 encrypited with mac address filtering. Any ideas | | |
| I have the answer. Go to the Linksys website, 192.168.1.1; Sign In; click the 'Wireless' tab; click Wireless Security; in Encryption 'field' change from "WPA-TKIP or WPA2-AES" to 'AES'. Done, GTG, happy webbing. | | |
| Switching from WPA-TKIP or WPA2-AES" to 'AES' should fix the problem I tried it and it worked immediately as Kevin as well as others have stated. Thanks to for the info about the change in encryption. | | |
| I have 3 Imacs and 1 Macbook Pro wireless throughout my home/office. This message started to appear after I installed a Netgear Range Max Dual Band router. Sometimes I have to clik "ok" on the annoying little window 5 or six times! before it goes away. I almost feel like I'm back in the PC world. Anyone use the router I just installed? | | |
| Jay, I have the Netgear Range Max Dual Band router and am having the same issue. | | |
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