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Airport sucks since 10.5.3
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I had the same issue. I spent about 5 hours off and on with tech support. At their direction, I reset Time Capsule more times than I care to count. It would get better for a little while and then get a lot worse. Sometimes I would get the "You don't have an internet connection" message in Safari.
Finally, out of desperation, I did a "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility and then a shut down and restart. It fixed everything.
Finally, out of desperation, I did a "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility and then a shut down and restart. It fixed everything.
thats funny
my airport was so ****ed up in 10.5.2 kept goin in and out all day
10.5.3 finally restored my stuff back to normal.
my airport was so ****ed up in 10.5.2 kept goin in and out all day
10.5.3 finally restored my stuff back to normal.
sOwL
macrumors 6502
Just stating that you're too lucky that you didnt have any problems with it until 10.5.3 came out.
I'd rephrase your title to: "Airport sucks since 10.4.9"
wrldwzrd89
macrumors G5
Actually, I didn't have problems with 10.4.9 at all... but I do now, with 10.5.3. AirPort connectivity is much more variable than it used to be - worked great before in my house, now it's spotty. Some places I get the "No internet connection" messages, other places 4 full bars of strength. Also, it doesn't seem to matter how close I am to the base station.
BlakTornado
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sOwL
macrumors 6502
let me be more specific: It worked untill 10.4.9. I have 10.4.11 and i patched it that way so it will still have the 10.4.9 settings for the airport. Otherwise it would hang all the time
robert05au
macrumors regular
Can you be a little specific about what the issues are.
I am on an Intel imac and have no airport issues to even think of as it just simply works without hassles.
I have an airport extreme and have the intel imac wireless networked and a PPC imac G5 connect via ethernet and both work no problems.
I have read a major amount of issues with the macbook and macbook pros and airport issues this seems to be a ongoing issue and could very well be some form of hardware or maybe even cpu related issue.
One thing which may help and is a real pain due to the fact all the airport base station settings get wiped is a hard reset of the base station as the 7.3.1 firmware update doesn't reset/restart the base station fully.
Also most third party routers have issues when it come to being used in conjunction with airport as I found this out the hard way myself just recently.
I am on an Intel imac and have no airport issues to even think of as it just simply works without hassles.
I have an airport extreme and have the intel imac wireless networked and a PPC imac G5 connect via ethernet and both work no problems.
I have read a major amount of issues with the macbook and macbook pros and airport issues this seems to be a ongoing issue and could very well be some form of hardware or maybe even cpu related issue.
One thing which may help and is a real pain due to the fact all the airport base station settings get wiped is a hard reset of the base station as the 7.3.1 firmware update doesn't reset/restart the base station fully.
Also most third party routers have issues when it come to being used in conjunction with airport as I found this out the hard way myself just recently.
Yeah it was so bad I had to archive and install.
In 10.5.2 I went from stable and nice, to hardly getting a connection, in the same room, same spot.
Went back and now its fine.
In 10.5.2 I went from stable and nice, to hardly getting a connection, in the same room, same spot.
Went back and now its fine.
Update on my 10.5.3 network issues
After upgrading, my Airport and ethernet performance was 2/3 worse. I went into network props and reset the "Ethernet" settings using
1. Auto
2. Manual
3. Manual with a 1492 MTU (i use fios; was 1500 before and worked fine).
The third option fixed the ethernet, and now the Airport seems better too.
Not sure what exactly happened, but I'm back up to speed
🙂
After upgrading, my Airport and ethernet performance was 2/3 worse. I went into network props and reset the "Ethernet" settings using
1. Auto
2. Manual
3. Manual with a 1492 MTU (i use fios; was 1500 before and worked fine).
The third option fixed the ethernet, and now the Airport seems better too.
Not sure what exactly happened, but I'm back up to speed
🙂
Just wish I knew...
I had a suspicion after doing 10.5.3 upgrade on my Mini, which went smoothly, as soon as that was done, I tried to update my intel iMac and nothing. Had a hard time finding and holding wireless router. Now. I have nothing but problems, and so does my neighbor that provides my signal. At first, I am doubtful that this can be the OS X update, but now I am suspicious. My neighbor turned of the wireless on her DSL and reset it. Now that I turned it back on and connected, problems again. I sure hope this isn't an Apple F/U. Come on Apple, give us some answers...
I had a suspicion after doing 10.5.3 upgrade on my Mini, which went smoothly, as soon as that was done, I tried to update my intel iMac and nothing. Had a hard time finding and holding wireless router. Now. I have nothing but problems, and so does my neighbor that provides my signal. At first, I am doubtful that this can be the OS X update, but now I am suspicious. My neighbor turned of the wireless on her DSL and reset it. Now that I turned it back on and connected, problems again. I sure hope this isn't an Apple F/U. Come on Apple, give us some answers...
I updated all four of my Macs each a day or two apart. My MacBook 2.4 seems to be lagging some and so does my MBP. Today I updated the iMac and it seems to be doing ok using WiFi. I now have my MBP using ethernet as is my Mac Pro and those are also fine under ethernet. Not sure what the difference could be on why my iMac seems unaffected so far.