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When the hell is Apple gonna fix the Wireless problem in Leopard?!

Nope, spoke too soon.

It seems doing that is a quick fix. I get about 5 minutes of connectivity then im offline again, reflushing and turning airport off / on then seems to do the trick.


This is not cool, ****ing unbelievable really... and to think, its the 5.1 update that GAVE me the issues - did not have them before.
 
poohat1000 said:
Nope, spoke too soon.

It seems doing that is a quick fix. I get about 5 minutes of connectivity then im offline again, reflushing and turning airport off / on then seems to do the trick.


This is not cool, ****ing unbelievable really... and to think, its the 5.1 update that GAVE me the issues - did not have them before.
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For some reason I occasionally lose the connection, then it works ok, I'm wondering whether when it scans for new networks it accidently loses the connection to the existing one. Do you have a lot of wireless networks around where you are?
 
This is an amazing thread ... we have full wireless force in-play in our house -- 7 macs of all shapes and sizes --- including some 2 MacBook Pros that are less than a month old - all are running leopard and all are wirelessly connected to each other and the interenet -- with no outages (drops) at all ... I wonder if we too are headed for the issues your facing?:eek:
 
yes we have a lot of networks.


It was the 10.1 update that GAVE ME the issue, i was fine before.

Even plugging in an ethernet cable is resulting in near dial up speeds.


This needs fixing
 
poohat1000 said:
yes we have a lot of networks.


It was the 10.1 update that GAVE ME the issue, i was fine before.

Even plugging in an ethernet cable is resulting in near dial up speeds.


This needs fixing
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Don't you mean the 10.5.1 update?

As for your ethernet cable - have you talked to Apple yet? have you tried different cables? any interference? I'm just going through the laundry list of possible causes.
 
kaiwai said:
Don't you mean the 10.5.1 update?

As for your ethernet cable - have you talked to Apple yet? have you tried different cables? any interference? I'm just going through the laundry list of possible causes.
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yeah sorry my bad - 10.5.1... the ethernet cable is serriously old and has been through a couple of wars. So that might be it in regards to that.

However, today i had enough - went out and bought a wireless Linksys. Replaced my airport. 100% fixed instantly.
 
poohat1000 said:
However, today i had enough - went out and bought a wireless Linksys. Replaced my airport. 100% fixed instantly.
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So hold on a sec, so Apple's OWN Airport router doesn't work properly with Leopard for you while a Linksys one does? How ridiculous is that!

If that's the case then Apple have no excuse.

Still, glad you've got a working wireless connection now!
 
Neutral Gamer said:
So hold on a sec, so Apple's OWN Airport router doesn't work properly with Leopard for you while a Linksys one does? How ridiculous is that!

If that's the case then Apple have no excuse.

Still, glad you've got a working wireless connection now!
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It probably has more to do with the quality of the routers by comparison and the signal strength they emit / quality of reception.

Apple's own wireless routers have always been a bit weak in the features compared to offerings from other companies. I'd go with Linksys (and I do) for a router before using Apple's. Sure, Apple's are easy to set up, but they lack in some areas compared to the Linksys routers I've compared them to.

Particularly in the security / encryption options.
 
Neutral Gamer said:
So hold on a sec, so Apple's OWN Airport router doesn't work properly with Leopard for you while a Linksys one does? How ridiculous is that!

If that's the case then Apple have no excuse.

Still, glad you've got a working wireless connection now!
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thanks :D

yep thats exactly the deal, i just unplugged the airport, replaced it with the linksys set it up and bam! really fast, not one drop out.

bit of a joke aye
 
Almost...

today I left my system asleep, when I came back from work and awoke the computer, it gave me the message of "your known network could not be located" so I was a tad singed but I tried something different, I put it manually to sleep and then awoke it right away and the network logged on like usual. it was the first time in about 5 days that the connection was lost, regained as it is in seconds. I looked at the Console logs and there was no special messages. hmmmm!
 
poohat1000 said:
thanks :D

yep thats exactly the deal, i just unplugged the airport, replaced it with the linksys set it up and bam! really fast, not one drop out.

bit of a joke aye
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Quesiton, when you connected to the airport base station, is it set to N mode in 2.4 or 5ghz?
 
I just recently upgraded (or so i thought) from a Powerboook with OSX 10.3.9 to a new MacBook with Leopard.... Ever since the upgrade I have been experiencing slow browsing with both Firefox and Leopard. I was wondering if any other users had this problem and knew how to fix it?

Some things I experience are slow browsing, pages timing out, pages loading incorrectly, pictures not loading...

I just tried turning off my airport, and connecting my laptop to the modem directly, the problem went away!!!

I have also put in:
sudo ipfw flush
Into Terminal, this seemed to help a bit. This worked for about 5 minutes then stopped working.

Sound familiar? Any suggestions?
 
I got a belkin Wireless N router yesterday, strangely enough it has been rock solid in "G only" mode, however will not work in "N only" or "mixed" modes. I am assuming there is something wrong with the n mode.... I am unsure whether it is this same issue, and it will hopefully be resolved when apple updates leopard in their next upgrade.

All these wireless problems are really unfortunate, as it seems as the only way to get a rock solid connection across all the various standards is through Apple's own Airport extreme router. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me, seeing as there are standards for a reason.

Nothing looks worse on Apple. I can't stand sitting next to a friend who is blazing around the net on their $800 dell, while we struggle around on our $2000+ macbook pro's.

Does anyone else have problems isolated to wireless N???

if not... what router are you using, other than the Apple.
 
zane19 said:
Nothing looks worse on Apple. I can't stand sitting next to a friend who is blazing around the net on their $800 dell, while we struggle around on our $2000+ macbook pro's.
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Yep, that's what REALLY bugs me about this whole situation and even more so for those, like myself, who spent over $3000 on their MBP's.

My cousin bought a super cheap PC laptop with Vista on it and I can't believe how slow it's become after just a couple of months; "Instant Search" is slower than Spotlight, boot up times, shut down times, anti-virus software updates etc.

Yet despite all that she doesn't seem too fussed (maybe she's just used to it?). As long as she can surf the web wirelessly around her house downloading whatever she needs to, she's alright. While I have to be tethered to a wire if I need any kind of connection stability.

I can talk confidently to her, with a smile on my face, about speed, Quicklook, Spaces and lack of viruses / spyware. But when it comes to wireless .... "roll on 10.5.2" is what I whisper quietly to myself! :rolleyes:
 
None of your preferred networks are available..

Does anyone have a solution to the "none of your preferred networks are available" message that pops up every single time I wake up my powerbook running leopard?

I put my home network into the preferred list and unchecked the ask to join option. Anything else?
 
zane19 said:
I got a belkin Wireless N router yesterday, strangely enough it has been rock solid in "G only" mode, however will not work in "N only" or "mixed" modes. I am assuming there is something wrong with the n mode.... I am unsure whether it is this same issue, and it will hopefully be resolved when apple updates leopard in their next upgrade.

All these wireless problems are really unfortunate, as it seems as the only way to get a rock solid connection across all the various standards is through Apple's own Airport extreme router. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me, seeing as there are standards for a reason.

Nothing looks worse on Apple. I can't stand sitting next to a friend who is blazing around the net on their $800 dell, while we struggle around on our $2000+ macbook pro's.

Does anyone else have problems isolated to wireless N???

if not... what router are you using, other than the Apple.
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Bloody hell! N isn't even standardised yet! so stop crapping on about standards.

As for wireless N, yes it is unreliable. Stick to mixed mode, and be done with it.
 
Just thought I'd say that I changed the channel on my router from 11 to 10 yesterday and it actually made a difference.

I was able to download the Quake IV demo from the Apple site. It wasn't perfect though; it dropped the connection once and it was downloading around 600-700 KB at a time before pausing for around 10-15 seconds or even more than 30 seconds sometimes before resuming.

Whereas using an ethernet connection it downloaded continuosly and in the end downloaded it over 3 times faster!

Still, at least I can now download large files without it losing the connection every 15 seconds ... :)
 
Neutral Gamer said:
Just thought I'd say that I changed the channel on my router from 11 to 10 yesterday and it actually made a difference.

I was able to download the Quake IV demo from the Apple site. It wasn't perfect though; it dropped the connection once and it was downloading around 600-700 KB at a time before pausing for around 10-15 seconds or even more than 30 seconds sometimes before resuming.

Whereas using an ethernet connection it downloaded continuosly and in the end downloaded it over 3 times faster!

Still, at least I can now download large files without it losing the connection every 15 seconds ... :)
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If you have a look through Zdnet news, there was an article talking about how different channels are better are resisting interference. For me, I have my router set to automatic, which means I'm sitting on Channel 6 - works beautifully.

When ever I hear people complain about reliability I have to ask myself - what have/aren't they doing?
 
Like many of you, I'm having intermittent drops with my wireless. Waiting for a fix from Apple I guess. Seems to be the most prevalent when I wake my MBP from sleep, Sometimes it picks up the network other times it doesn't. Usually turning off then on airport will pick up my home network.:confused:
Running Linksys Wireless G Router, WEP enabled, MAC Address only, SSID broadcasting off.
 
scotty96LSC said:
Like many of you, I'm having intermittent drops with my wireless. Waiting for a fix from Apple I guess. Seems to be the most prevalent when I wake my MBP from sleep, Sometimes it picks up the network other times it doesn't. Usually turning off then on airport will pick up my home network.:confused:
Running Linksys Wireless G Router, WEP enabled, MAC Address only, SSID broadcasting off.
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1) Why is SSID turned off?
2) Why aren't you using WPA?
3) Mac address filtering - why? there is no need if you use decent security.
4) What channel are you operating on? have you tried others?
 
Leopard....

You should be able to have ssid turned off or turned on, the thing I've observed in Leopard is that it does not carry prefs right, specially if its a migrated account, Leopard likes to write and modify files under its own environment, I would set the ssid on then restart the router, then the system then log back to the router then turn off ssid, restart router. I have it off and it has not dropped in a couple of days. I would make sure you have a second location to try it out under system prefs and have selected "remember any networks this computer has joined" also "allow the router to logoff"
 
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