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.
Thanks Scott & Greg.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
2-12-2008 @ 2:21PM
Amul said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 6:09PM
mortzz said...
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?
2-12-2008 @ 6:19PM
mkay said...
Wow, same exact thing in my case. I'm also connecting to a 2wire gateway/router.
2-13-2008 @ 10:20AM
LT said...
I've been having this problem since 10.5.1. I'm *thisclose* to installing Tiger.
2-12-2008 @ 2:27PM
sam said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 2:36PM
El Cartel said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 3:21PM
K said...
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
2-12-2008 @ 2:38PM
iWookie said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 2:40PM
joe said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 2:41PM
Alex said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 5:30PM
Jason said...
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.
2-12-2008 @ 11:38PM
Alex said...
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
2-12-2008 @ 2:49PM
Steve in Denmark said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 2:50PM
Ryan said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 4:22PM
a ham sandwich said...
what are you talking about? vista never had these issues!
2-12-2008 @ 4:46PM
Ryan said...
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.
2-12-2008 @ 5:43PM
Brandon Martinez said...
You're right, Vista just drops WIRED connections :P
2-12-2008 @ 2:53PM
Howie Isaacks said...
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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2-12-2008 @ 7:49PM
Howard Jeffrey said...
Me too Howie...
2-12-2008 @ 2:56PM
Fjordstorm said...
10.5.1 my wireless was dropped every 10 minutes using a Belkin Wireless N router, now with 10.5.2 it is more stable but it takes roughly 5 minutes to obtain an IP address after restart or wake from sleep which was never a problem before. Fix one thing, break another...
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