OK, I've got a Gigabit AEBS which has been bugging me for *months*.
I've upgraded from 7.2 to 7.2.1 to 7.3.1. In the meantime I've also upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.2), and all in all, the experience hasn't exactly lived up to "It just works".
I've had dropped connections, inability to find the damn AEBS, and lately, after 7.3.1 it's been extremely sloooooow. This has, of course, meant that any ambition wrt. wireless Time Machine was unrealistic.
However, tonight I'm zooming along at a nice clip, with TM chugging away in the background (the first one is going to take a long time). Everything seems rock solid.
So, what changed? Well I've been through the whole routine of wiping the AEBS, deleting keychains and starting over, but this time I did it with a twist:
Following best practice, I don't use the administrator account. So, when I have to do admin stuff I typically use sudo (in the terminal), or the admin password whenever a window pops up.
This time I said fsck it, and
1. Hard reset of base station
2. Destruction of all airport keychains
3. Log out, and log in as administrator
4. Reconfigure AEBS to desired (WPA, etc. etc. etc)
5. Log out of administrator
6. Log in as regular user.
Oh joy. Full Power!!!
YMMV
I've upgraded from 7.2 to 7.2.1 to 7.3.1. In the meantime I've also upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.2), and all in all, the experience hasn't exactly lived up to "It just works".
I've had dropped connections, inability to find the damn AEBS, and lately, after 7.3.1 it's been extremely sloooooow. This has, of course, meant that any ambition wrt. wireless Time Machine was unrealistic.
However, tonight I'm zooming along at a nice clip, with TM chugging away in the background (the first one is going to take a long time). Everything seems rock solid.
So, what changed? Well I've been through the whole routine of wiping the AEBS, deleting keychains and starting over, but this time I did it with a twist:
Following best practice, I don't use the administrator account. So, when I have to do admin stuff I typically use sudo (in the terminal), or the admin password whenever a window pops up.
This time I said fsck it, and
1. Hard reset of base station
2. Destruction of all airport keychains
3. Log out, and log in as administrator
4. Reconfigure AEBS to desired (WPA, etc. etc. etc)
5. Log out of administrator
6. Log in as regular user.
Oh joy. Full Power!!!
YMMV
