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KyleC said:
Maybe its just more accurate?

I would assume this is the issue at hand. I don't see why it would actually increase/decrease anything as its just software...
 
Mine is mediocre at best right now. If Tiger blows it, I probably won't be able to even connect to Google.

I think the poster who said that it's more accurate is probably on the right track. Have you tried moving closer to the hot spot to see if it changes?
 
I'm practically right on top of the Airport Base Station as it is. It's not 8 feet from my laptop, on the otherside of a paper thin interior wall of my apartment. My roommate's PC laptop gets almost perfect signal and he's on the other side of the room further from the base station.
 
stoid said:
I'm practically right on top of the Airport Base Station as it is. It's not 8 feet from my laptop, on the otherside of a paper thin interior wall of my apartment. My roommate's PC laptop gets almost perfect signal and he's on the other side of the room further from the base station.
I have this problem at work - I'm using Panther.. I'm 2 meters away from the base station... yet i get 1 or zero bars... I didn't always be like this.

Someone else, sitting not too far from me is getting fine reception.
 
Over Achiever said:
Actually I've noticed the opposite, here where I have low reception of the university network, it frequently switches from 4 bars to 1. Before it never had more than one bar.

My buddy says his range has about doubled. He can now surf in places he didn't have any reception before on campus.
 
swissmann said:
My buddy says his range has about doubled. He can now surf in places he didn't have any reception before on campus.
I used CNET and oddly enough, my speeds are 1.5-2x my speeds before. And I'm very sure my university didn't suddenly upgrade their wireless at the same time.

Interesting, I didn't think software could improve upon the hardware ... weird.
 
I'm using airport with my iMac, and I usually get about 50kb/sec down. Yet on my wired network (going through the same internet connetion), I usually get more like 250kb/sec. I'm convinced it's either Panther or Airport. Even with wireless B, that's still plently of bandwidth to handlle high speed internet, so I don't know how to excplain it. It'll be interneting to see if Tiger fixes this.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?
 
At least your guys' wireless still works at all. Tiger has seemingly killed the D-Link DI-624 router my roommates and I use in our apartment. Here's what happens:

Any time a Mac with Tiger is connected, seemingly wirelessly OR with Ethernet, it connects, receives a self-assigned IP address, gets a regular IP address, gets kicked, and then the router itself restarts.
 
I noticed when I'm idle for a while the signal strength drop to 2 bars, however once I start surfing the web it pops back up to the max. :confused:
 
Tiger boosted my wireless bars. I used to get 2 max, and as soon as i had installed tiger, the reception was full.
 
I'm getting much better reception according to Apple (Menu bar and Internet Connect window) but according to Macstumbler, it's exactly the same. I think they probably just re-calibrated it.
 
I have yet another very odd Tiger wireless issue. I used to get full speeds across my wireless network (Airport Extreme cards and Belkin 54G router), but since I've updated my iMac and PowerBook to Tiger, the PowerBook works the same as before, but I'm getting a max of 9k/s on the iMac. The things are sitting side by side, so I have no idea why I'm taking such a hit in performance.
 
Just to let everyone know, a call to tech support revealed that we needed to zap the PRAM on our PowerBooks. Turned off the Airport cards, moved the System Preferences folder from the main library out to the Desktop, then shut down and started up holding the key combo. After Tiger booted, wireless worked fine. It was bizarre.
 
I REALLY hope the range is doubled because I sit in class next to two dorks with HP & Compaq laptops and I can't get online---while they surf the net and play battlefield.

they love my notebook, but they laugh at my wifi connection.
 
AirTunes Woes

Wireless is fine for me, but AirTunes performance sucks now... it takes much longer for iTunes to connect to my speakers when I start playing a song... what gives?
 
Cless said:
Just to let everyone know, a call to tech support revealed that we needed to zap the PRAM on our PowerBooks. Turned off the Airport cards, moved the System Preferences folder from the main library out to the Desktop, then shut down and started up holding the key combo. After Tiger booted, wireless worked fine. It was bizarre.


Thanks for posting that Cless. I have the same router and I was having a similar problem. I used the same solution to fix it. That saved me a lot of time.
 
With the installation of Tiger, my wireless range has grown to it's maximum! Pages definitely seem to load quicker than with Panther. Most people are now reporting Tiger does what it did to the OP or what it has done to me; I'm not sure why.
 
stoid said:
Before updating to Tiger I was always getting 3 or 4 bars in the menu icon. Now I'm getting 2 and sometimes only 1. What happened? Has anyone else experienced this?

mine is better... with panther i was always one short of full signal now it is completely full all the time.
 
Here is the deal:

The airport read-out used to show signal strength; now it shows effective maximum throughput or somesuch.

It is a more relevant measure, but one that can differ - sometimes quite dramatically - from signal strength.

You can for example have a very strong signal, but have a lot noise in the connection.

-RS
 
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