Leopard Wireless Broken
If you’ve updated your MacBook to Leopard and are having wireless troubles, you’re not alone.
If you’re not into reading the hundreds of messages those threads represent, the gist of it is that if you’re using a MacBook Pro and a non-Apple wireless router, your WiFi connection might randomly go away and there’s not much you can do about it. Apple Support doesn’t have any answers yet.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
That’s funny! I didn’t even realize Apple made wireless routers. :)
October 31st, 2007 at 5:33 pm
dont buy crApple.
powerbook g4 1.5ghz 15 inch.
clean install. degrading to no wireless signal with leopard. other crapples in our house work fine online but that is cause they dont use leopard. called crapplecare and they had me reboot holding down shift. this worked while he was on the phone but minutes later didnt work again. this sucks.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Yup, same here. Wireless has gone to crap on the Macbook. Poor signal, dropouts, etc. Never had this issue on Tiger (in fact signal strength on Tiger was very, very good.)
Apple needs to take a hard look at their testing department for this on MANY other Leopard issues.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
This is affecting me – my wireless p2p network between my imac and mac mini has dropped in speed by 80%.
Connecting the two was a chore, as well, as it couldn’t find the imac’s network.
Didn’t have any issues with Tiger, using the exact same gear.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I was just on the phone with leopard. after a 60!! minute hold time, i got this info:
Change your Location in Network preference to something else, then back to your preferred “Location”. This resets something and lo and behold, my network speed is back to about 75% of what Tiger offered.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Jan. It worked. I just upgraded to leopard.. Woohoo!
November 15th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Well, i was hoping 10.5.1 would be a better fix – sadly, no. they didn’t address this issue. Changing location still only gets me about 1.4mbps vs ~2mbps I had with tiger.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:01 am
A fix that works for me….
open Terminal, ping your routers IP address. Dont close it down keep it running…
as long as this is pinging, the connections stays open. Im sure this gives me a performance hit but hey rock solid internet!!!
hope that helps
dm
January 5th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Leopard has been a big disappointment for me. Seeing that it had to be delayed because of the iPhone and even then to be in such a “unstable” state is very sad. Maybe Apple is following Microsofts footsteps. Right not Leopard is not much better then Vista, but there is hope in 10.5.2 at least. Lets hope they fix the issues.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
For what it’s worth….
I was having both Wi-Fi dropout problems as well as connection time-out issues after upgrading to both 10.5.2 and 10.4.11. My issues happened on both Intel and PowerPC G5 hardware. In the end, as a last ditch effort, I decided to update the firmware on my NetGear w602 V3 WAP. All my issues are gone now.
Hope you’re all able to resolve your problems, its been quite a headache for me.
Cheers!!