Early 10.5.2 reports: some users having wireless issues
As the Considering that Apple's own Airport Extreme has come in for some criticism over the past months for dropping connections (in some cases prompting radical solutions), and that 10.5.2 has wireless fixes listed among the changes, it's both unsurprising and disappointing that the upgrade hasn't gone more smoothly for WiFi users. If you're running 10.5.2 and seeing problems with wireless, let us know below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Amul said 2:21PM on 2-12-2008
Yes, I have a Macbook 2.2ghz and now my wireless connection drops every 10 minutes or so. I never had any problems with 10.5.1.
Very disappointing :(
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mortzz said 6:09PM on 2-12-2008
Same for me as well. 2.2 macbook
2-wire router/modem 802.11g, worked fine with 10.5 and 10.5.1, but now it drops the connection every ten or so minutes. It will sometimes reconnect after a couple of minutes, but other times it will require a reboot. It's very maddening, I thought it was the router, but now I'm sure it's 10.5.2
Is there any way to downgrade back to 10.5.1 until they fix this?
mkay said 6:19PM on 2-12-2008
Wow, same exact thing in my case. I'm also connecting to a 2wire gateway/router.
LT said 10:20AM on 2-13-2008
I've been having this problem since 10.5.1. I'm *thisclose* to installing Tiger.
Tyler Slaymaker said 4:15PM on 2-12-2008
Definitely have issues with my self-installed 802.11n in my 2.0ghz Core Duo BlackBook... not happy about that, and my sister is having trouble with her SR 2.4ghz 15.4" MBP.
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sam said 2:27PM on 2-12-2008
the self-assigned IP problem that I and others have been having since .1 is also unfixed in .2. extremely disappointing!!
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iWookie said 2:38PM on 2-12-2008
I am having this same problem on my iMac and MBP. Connection drops every 10-15 minutes, have to reconnect manually. Really screws up streaming to my AppleTV.
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El Cartel said 2:36PM on 2-12-2008
Updated to 10.5.2 and now My isync and Mail are no longer working I am so mad. I called the apple phone number and they were no help. Someone please help me.
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K said 3:21PM on 2-12-2008
just restore a time machine save from before the update, should get everything working again, albiet without 10.5.2 love but oh well...
on another note, 10.5.2 is running great on my macbook (2.16ghz, 3gb) and I couldnt be happier. Things feel snappier, less graphic hiccups, and my airport issues from 10.5.1 are resolved. I am very satisified
joe said 2:40PM on 2-12-2008
I'm a new-ish Airport Extreme owner, and have had tons of wireless problems since then, on Tiger, 10.5.1 and now 10.5.2.
My Macbook Pro works flawlessly wirelessly. no problems.
But my Mac Mini (for TV) and my wife's Macbook both have problems where they will not reconnect automatically to the network. Every time they come out of standby or log in or whatever, you have to manually connect to the Airport Extreme network. They connect automatically with no problems to other networks, and to my old network with a linksys router, but they will not connect automatically to the Airport Extreme. I was hoping this was a 10.5.1 problem and it would be fixed with 5.2, but nope. Guess I'll be searching for more answers now.
Not to mention, I'm extremely disappointed with the wired and wireless transfer speeds of my APE, so I might be getting rid of it and going back to linksys....
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Alex said 2:41PM on 2-12-2008
apple's wireless is a joke. I go to school at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an undergrad and I also work at the school's IT helpdesk. EVERYDAY someone comes in with a macbook or a macbook pro that has problems with our wireless. We use a WPA certificate based system. 10.5.2 has not fixed this issue, and even if it did, these problems have existed since 10.4.x. I'm not the only mac user on campus who is furious with apple over this
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Jason said 5:30PM on 2-12-2008
What sort of problems do you have with WPA Enterprise? Works fine for me. I've used WPA and WPA2 with both EAP-TTLS and PEAP with MSCHAPv2. Worked fine here. Never gets an address assigned as fast as a PSK network, but that's due to the EAP stuff that takes place before the association is completed.
Alex said 11:38PM on 2-12-2008
The issue is that leopard tries to re-authenticate for every wireless access point it comes into contact with (or so it seems, we haven't tracked down the exact cause). This causes people to lose connection every few minutes. Generally, you can turn the airport on and off to get a connection again- but now after trying a permissions repair from disk utility after updating things seem to be humming along nicely
Steve in Denmark said 2:49PM on 2-12-2008
Sad to say that I'm on a 4 year-old PowerBook G4, with naff-all as a processor and an Airport Extreme thing that is the version I bought about 5 minutes before they introduced the very latest one and - everything working smooth as a baby's backside. Connects automatically (from start-up or sleep), doesn't drop out (whatever that may be) all that jazz. Still, it did before the up-date as well.
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Ryan said 2:50PM on 2-12-2008
I upgraded to 10.5.2 the moment I heard it was out - I was having relentless wireless issues and it was driving me crazy.
After finishing the 10.5.2 update, I unplugged my hardwire and watch the terminal ping Google repeatedly... Sure enough, not 5 minutes later, the connection dropped... And it continued to randomly do so throughout the day.
I finally decided to log into my router and start changing settings, such as turning off Super G, disabling Extended Range, setting a new channel, and enabling G-Only mode. I will say, the performance DOES seem a LITTLE better, I wasn't dropping connections NEARLY as much throughout the rest of the day - But it still did have problems, and before I upgraded to Leopard, there were zero. That's what I want - Zero problems. Seriously, can't they just revert the damn Airport to the nice, old, FUNCTIONAL version?
Leopard is the new Vista
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a ham sandwich said 4:22PM on 2-12-2008
what are you talking about? vista never had these issues!
Ryan said 4:46PM on 2-12-2008
No, what I mean is, much like how Vista was the "Must-Have OS" that everyone installed and immediately regretted, Leopard is now the "OMG-Time-To-Revert-Back-To-The-Last-Version" OS.
Brandon Martinez said 5:43PM on 2-12-2008
You're right, Vista just drops WIRED connections :P
Howie Isaacks said 2:53PM on 2-12-2008
How strange. I have experienced zero issues. Today, I have been on 4 different wireless networks (at home, at some of my clients' offices and at Starbucks). No problems for me. I'm glad that I can now how the option of having a translucent menu bar and, I'm happy that Stacks is now optional instead of having it forced on me.
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Howard Jeffrey said 7:49PM on 2-12-2008
Me too Howie...