AirPort Software Updated to v3.4 78
iumacboy writes "Available now in your Software Update, Apple AirPort Software v3.4, which 'provides improved AirPort wireless networking software, and is recommended for all users with an AirPort Extreme and AirPort enabled computer or an AirPort Extreme base station.' New features include: 'improved antenna output control, enhanced logging from your base station which is compatible with syslog, and performance improvements for WPA security implementations.'" Apple also put up some AirPort Management Tools (a management utility for viewing logs and configurations, and a client monitor) but they quickly disappeared.
Airport update (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Airport update (Score:1)
17 PB, Extreme, etc etc
Re:Airport update (Score:2)
Warning! (Score:5, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Warning! (Score:1)
It lowered my signal (Score:4, Informative)
Re:It lowered my signal (Score:3, Funny)
Link supplied in body is dead (Score:5, Informative)
Right now the Airport Management Tools can be downloaded from the Airport Support Page [apple.com]. Look down the right column until you get to the section, Resources.
Re:Link supplied in body is dead (Score:3, Funny)
The iGone?
File Mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Goodbye, sweet bandwidth, and flocks of /.ers speed thee to thy doom.
Re:Link supplied in body is dead (Score:2)
They feared lawsuit from Disney.
Honestly, get the dmg, mount it, and what you see is Mickey head
Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:5, Interesting)
Kills the range (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Kills the range (Score:4, Informative)
I wish I could say I should have read this first, but that was 8 hours ago. If my Airport signal weren't borderline in the first place, I wouldn't have applied the "fix". Live and learn.
Re:Kills the range (Score:2)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:5, Informative)
Still, could be worse.
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:1)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:2)
http://www.speedtest.coxinet.net/ [coxinet.net]
You'll need javascript turned on to use this. It tells me that I'm getting a bit over 2 Mbytes / sec after installing the upgrade. This is about the same number as before. However, the reported signal level is noticeably lower than before. So it's likely that the signal level doesn't mean the same thing as before.
Now to carry the PB outside and see what happens
Anyone know of other good network speed tests?
One pr
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Reportedly killing range and disables MLDonkey (Score:3, Interesting)
So regular 802.11b Airport is unaffected? My old iBook can't use an Airport Extreme card anyway. Do I take it then that older gear is immune to this bug?
Re:i'm apple users know this already (Score:5, Insightful)
There are certainly those (I'm one of them) who will happily spend mod points to mod down stupid "M4X0Rz 5uX0rz" trolls, but that's not the same thing. As an iBook user, I'm glad to know that I should hold off on the latest software update. A look at the various signal strength posts, most of which are modded "Informative," will tell you that a lot of other people feel the same way.
Re:i'm apple users know this already (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:i'm apple users know this already (Score:1)
Re:i'm apple users know this already (Score:1)
The Slashdot Apple Cabal (Score:2, Interesting)
I know how you feel -- I used to feel Linux fans were fanatics until I bought an iBook and began hanging out with the Apple crowd. Since then, I've stopped laughing when people talk about joining a religion with your computer purchase.
I think there is some astroturfing [slashdot.org] going on here, too. Apple's community is small enough that a few people can make a d
Range Issues, ignorance is bliss (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed on the range issue (Score:3, Informative)
Test early, test often, test on all supported platforms.
Airport Extreme Base Firmware Update (Score:2)
apple.com [apple.com]
Re:Airport Extreme Base Firmware Update (Score:5, Informative)
Obligitory... (Score:4, Funny)
[SIGNAL LOST]
Even more Obligitory... (Score:2)
Re:Obligitory... (Score:1, Offtopic)
i'm going over to meta-moderate right now just on the hopes of getting that mod.
Re:Obligitory... (Score:1)
What comes to mind... Maybe signal was showing "wrong" before and fixed now?
Improved Calibration? (Score:3, Interesting)
It turned out that there was also something wrong with my AP card, as my most annoying problems (silent dropping of connection) went away when I swapped it out for a friend's AP card. Getting a new one from Apple fixed things up nicely for me.
Problems in 802.11g only? (Score:3, Interesting)
TiBook867 (10.3.3)+802.11b Airport card on
(a) ABS(Snow) at home
(b) Netgear at work
(Both are 802.11b)
Are there any 802.11b folks having a problem?
cheers- raga
Re:Problems in 802.11g only? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Problems in 802.11g only? (Score:1)
My appartment is very small, and I usualy sit withing 6 feet of the AP. I have always had full signal strength everywhere in my apt..
Now it consistently drops to 1 bar.. and I lose signal when I go into another room...
This royally sucks..
Re:Problems in 802.11g only? (Score:2)
cheers- raga
Re:Problems in 802.11g only? (Score:1, Funny)
Perhaps your unique circumstances are because you're using a nonstandard access point? Try upgrading to Apple Hardware and see if that fixes the problem. If not, try buying two or three new Airport Extreme cards and see if they all behave the same way.</sarcasm>
If buying more Apple hardware doesn't fix your problem, perhaps you should use something simpler, lik
More bad Apple quality control (Score:2, Insightful)
Given the fact that Apple -- as the True Believer faction loves to rub in other OS users' faces -- has complete control over the hardware and doesn't have to cover all kinds of variants like Linux or Windows, these things simply should not happen. This is a sign of sloppy testing or bad quality control, just like the famous creaking left handrest on the iBook, the batter cover that is n
Another Report (Score:3, Informative)
going back (Score:2, Interesting)
Possibly a false negative. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Possibly a false negative. (Score:2, Informative)
You must be one of the mods that mod bombs every apple post I make.
Re:Possibly a false negative. (Score:2)
Uh. yeah. That's me. posting from AlBook and modbombing the apple fanatics. And yet - somehow posting to the same thread.
If it makes you feel better, said AlBook hasn't had any of these signal strength problems - although I do have the !@#%$!@# problem where trying to print to a shared printer locks up the Airport card altogether.
Deskjet 5800 drops print jobs from pb not Ibook (Score:2)
After the update, the iBook still works without a problem. iBook print jobs to the Deskjet still process. The PB has far lower "bars" and, when sending a print job to the Deskjet the printer drops all but the first page of the job.
I had to reconfigure the Deskjet to ad hoc
Quick Summary (Score:5, Informative)
As best as I can determine, a combination of (one or more) of the following causes the problem:
1) Airport Extreme network
2) ABS extreme not updated to 3.4 (only the mac updated to 3.4)
3) Using a network app such as Retrospect/LimeWare/MLdonkey etc.
4) Apple has changed the algorithm to the signal strength display.
It may be a good idea to hold off the upgrade till 3.4.x is released.
Having said that, I should add that I did upgrade without any problems (couldn't wait to play with the new apps
The new Airport Client Monitor is cool. It plots the signal and noise strengths, as well as the transmit rate (which I could also see on MenuMeter, but not as a plot over the last 60 seconds.) The Airport Management Utility seems to be a superset of the old Airport Admin Utility and would probably be most useful if you have more than one ABS to handing off roving clients to one another. It can also "see" all Rendezvous enabled devices.
cheers- raga
Management tools (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Management tools (Score:1)
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For what it's worth (Score:2, Informative)
A potential fix (Score:2)