Since I may (ahem) have moaned about this at some length, I thought it was only fair to post this somewhere ...
As a tiny number of people may recall, I have basically found that since buying my MacBook in May 07 (2.16HGHz shipping with 10.4.9) every OS update has FUBARed my wireless internet - 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 both did it, with connection becoming unreliable, and speeds averaging a mighty 5k per second.
Last weekend, I installed 10.5.2 and that didn't fix the problem, either. However, since today's Airport Extreme Update (2008-001) promised to improve Airport performance, I thought I'd have another go.
Since wifi internet is unreliable under normal 10.4.11 operation, I d/led the Airport update as a .dmg first, ran software update to upgrade to 10.4.11 and then ran the Airport update.
Result! We have full-speed internet access over wifi. I'm going to image the drive with CarbonCopy Cloner over the weekend and then see if the improvement remains once I've upgraded to 10.5.2, then report back.
Cheers
Jim
As a tiny number of people may recall, I have basically found that since buying my MacBook in May 07 (2.16HGHz shipping with 10.4.9) every OS update has FUBARed my wireless internet - 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 both did it, with connection becoming unreliable, and speeds averaging a mighty 5k per second.
Last weekend, I installed 10.5.2 and that didn't fix the problem, either. However, since today's Airport Extreme Update (2008-001) promised to improve Airport performance, I thought I'd have another go.
Since wifi internet is unreliable under normal 10.4.11 operation, I d/led the Airport update as a .dmg first, ran software update to upgrade to 10.4.11 and then ran the Airport update.
Result! We have full-speed internet access over wifi. I'm going to image the drive with CarbonCopy Cloner over the weekend and then see if the improvement remains once I've upgraded to 10.5.2, then report back.
Cheers
Jim