Leopard Cripples, Disables Wireless Connections

(TheForceField.net ) October 30, 2007 — Users of Leopard are reporting partial or total failure of wireless connectivity after installation of Apple's new version of its operating system, according to comments in Apple's blog .

Users complained of slowdowns in wireless connections to the point of complete disconnection. The initial post by "nunofgs" described the problem. "When you connect to your wireless network, your transmit rate will be 54. (if you're using the 54g standard). If you start up a download or something that occupies your bandwidth (even LAN traffic), you will notice that the transmit rate drops to 11, then to 3, then to 1 until finally your downloads will drop, your ichat connections will fail and your browser will not load pages. "

One user known as "osxy" wrote "This morning i recieved my copy of leopard and installed it on my iMac (core 2 duo 2.16ghz first generation iMac). And I got 1 big problem, Airport, with airport i got a very bad connection. When i open several sites at once my ping to my modem shoots up from 2ms to 3k ms and basicly my whole network is useless."

The problem was not limited to Airport. Other users observed the issue with other devices as well. DCYorke said "Also having a problem with my D-Link access point. I would like to add I seem to be having the same type of symptoms with my Verizon Wireless ExpressCard connecting to their 3G network."

Users suggested a myriad of fixes but as of today had not found a common cause nor solution to the problem. All, however, called on Apple to fix the problem, and quickly. As of this afternoon Apple had not posted a solution.

 

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