The Airport on my MacBook seems to be acting up. When I join my home network, it connects readily but often takes a minute or two to get an IP adress via DHCP. Often I'll hit the "renew DHCP lease" button but I'm not sure that speeds things up very much.

I've tried rebooting the MacBook, the router and the modem. I've tried a different router. None of those seemed to help. The MacBook sometimes has problems with other routers as well. Recently it has started dropping the connection, forcing me to manually reconnect.

The only thing which has seemed to help (not positive the instances of "seeming to help" are statistically significant) is turning off the "Enable interference robustness" option.

My home network is set up as a preferred network. The signal is strong, and the noise is low, giving a good signal/noise ratio.

Any ideas?

Any playlist you create on an iPod should appear in iTunes as an "On The Go" playlist. (If you create more than one they get numbered.)

Sorry Tommy, I should have been more specific, I connect my iPod to my work computer, and create the playlists on the ipod via the iTunes. God, has anyone made large playlists with on-the-go? On my 4th gen that seemed painful.

Thanks for the other ideas. I think YamiPod might do it.

Sorry Tommy, I should have been more specific, I connect my iPod to my work computer, and create the playlists on the ipod via the iTunes.

Yeah, I was wondering if I was missing something....

I think my biggest on-the-go playlist was five or six songs....

Fun! OK, so apparently to export a playlist such that it can be imported into iTunes, that feature is only available in the Win & Linux versions. So, since I just got Parallels, no problem. Except it seems Win doesn't see the Firewire port. OK, dig for USB dock cable. So then in order to export, ya gotta compare the playlist with a list of songs. Of course I can't get Parallels to see the Mac partition. So I link it back to the iPod. Apparently it has to analyze the whole volume before it can do the export. Ya, so I'm waiting while it goes thru over 6,000 to export a song list of 800.

I tried to get it to import a playlist to itunes and it was more problem than it was worth. So I just decided I didn't need those playlists after all.

What you may want to do is load the playlists in yamipod and save them as a html file so at least you have the name of the songs.

I tried to get it to import a playlist to itunes and it was more problem than it was worth. So I just decided I didn't need those playlists after all.

Ya, I'm getting close to that. Not giving up on the playlists, but thinking it might be easier to just recreate it manually in iTunes. (I had to stop the export earlier today to go frolic in a/c land, and I'm trying at it again before going to bed.)

Does this make any sense? [link]

A rumor that the high-end iPod will switch to Flash-based storage (no HD).

How much would an iPod with, say, 120GB flash storage cost?

(Yeah, I know - I should just wait 'til tomorrow. I've been ignoring most iPod rumors, but this one made me curious.)

Does this make any sense?

Makes a whole lot of sense -- it's been rumored for a while now, they've had a lot of success with the flash-based Nano, and it's been rumored for even longer that flash rather than hard drives will be the direction for portable devices (including lightweight laptops) as larger amounts of flash storage get cheaper.

Here's a rumor saying they won't be switching to flash: [link]

Someone should totally deathmatch the rumors sites. Engadget could be the referee.