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crazycaddy

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Ok, i'm still having trouble with the speed of my airport extreme in my new iMac (download at max 200kb/s whereas before it was 500kb/s on pc).
And I am starting to think it may need a firmware update.
I went on the apple site and downloaded the latest firmware update for airport extreme, but when I try to update it doesn't find the device, but its asking for an airbase and not airport extreme.
I am so unbelievably confused.

Heres some ping results to my router:
Code:
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.336 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.543 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=11.296 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.508 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.506 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.496 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.397 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.393 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=1.463 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.499 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1.582 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.580 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=1.575 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1.500 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=1.528 ms


Also when I disconnect and reconnect for a short period I get full speed (about 5 mins) it then dips down to how low it was previously.
 
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