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Apple AirPort Base Station Update

Apple AirPort Base Station Update

for AirPort Utility 5.0

Version:  2007-002

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Apple wireless is ages behind technology

Feedback Type:  Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: scott.z_dotmac Sunday, December 04 2005 @ 01:28 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Yes its great that everyone can manage their airport networks on the business side. But the simple fact is, without the home users APPLE IS SCREWED. This update didnt fix anything for me. I cant get 2 feet away from my router without it dropping to one bar.

I am having the same problem as listed below. It scans and detects my wireless network. Has full strength for about 5 seconds, then drops to 3, then 2, then 1 and doesnt even stay connected if you have a constant bandwidth going through. In fact whiole writting this(5 feet away from my wireless router) it has dropped 3 times. I have read every darn article you can find and having to reset the power is a joke.

APPLE PLEASE FIGURE OUT THIS PROBLEM. HOME USERS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THEN BUSINESS USERS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE HOME USERS USUALLY HAVE THE WORD ON IMPLEMENTATION @ WORK!!!

On my wireless laptop I can go all the way to corner of my yard without lossing much signal strength @ all, so don't tell me its interferece. In fact I dont even have a LAND telephone line. The only wireless thing I have is my xbox 360(which is turned off), my MN-700 Wireless router and my DirectTV satelite with no noise intruding on the connection.

If there is any fix, please update it quickly. Otherwise I am going to cancle our order on the airport network @ work and go to linksys because they obviously know what to do.   
System Info:Airport Extreme Card on 1.0ghz iBOOK G4 12"

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Apple wireless is ages behind technology - benjaminrolland

This same thing.... 5...4...2....1 bars began happening to me 2 years ago. Finally I was fed up with not being able to connect with routers I was fine with for a year. Home, school (multiple locaitons), work, friends' houses, etc. I tried clean installs (of 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) and developer versions of all the same. Nothing fixed what once was fine. Finally I had a free week and called applecare (THANK GOODNESS) I purchased it. The first time it came back with an antenna, jumper, and cable replaced.......... same problem!! I called again, sent it in again, and it came back today..... to the same problem!! Until I uninstalled Menumeters, zapped PRAM, and reset PMU. Now it is FINALLY FINALLY fixed!!!! The uninstalling and zapping did nothing before. It was indeed a hardware problem with my PB G4 1.5ghz 17". "INVRTR and something ASSBLY" replaced. The problem is finally fixed! Home, work, school are back to 100% all the time.... If you have applecare call today, if not, ouch. HTH

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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 03:45 PM PDT


Apple wireless is ages behind technology - mtnbiker82

You think apple reads this?

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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 05:00 PM PDT