The inevitable return of AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004

i have a macbook pro, the version right before the newest one with the black keyboard. 4gb of ram, 250 gb of hd 512mb of graphics, its wireless is okay, but as soon as i move more than 20ft from my belkin N1 router it starts losing the connection, which is weird considering the normal range of an N1 router. i dunno if i should install this update, on my previous macbook pro, the update destroyed it, had to buy a whole new hardrive and install it. so you can see why im a bit frightened of this one. if anyone can help me out, lemme know, thanks ^^

My mac auto-updated itself with this piece of crud and it gave me 4 days of headaches. Internet would not connect without a restart and then would drop after about 20 minutes. I called the Apple helpline 3 times and either the phone operators are blissfully unaware of problems associated with this or they are instructed not to acknowledge the problem. I had to use time machine to restore my system to the day before it swallowed this poison. Be warned.

I installed it on my 2.4 iMac and since then I have continues connection drops with my TimeCapsule. Also I noticed some strange behavior with my wireless Apple mouse. The click stops working and I have to turn off and on the bluetooth connection to work again (battery is full). I wonder if anyone else had the same issues

Getting lots of connection freezes after running this update on a late 2008 macbook. Was working perfect before the patch and I've got a couple of other laptops sitting right next to it working fine (so not the network).

I have installed this update along with the 2008-003 update that got pulled. I have installed from a clean isntallation and installed 2008-004 thinking it will fix the 003 problem. No luck my Wifi keeps dropping on my intel iMac (1st gen).

I in the UK and I am using a Netgear router. THe wifi and router are working OK as it works fine with my MacBook in XP and OSX.

For people having WIFI dropouts what is your router make and model, so we can try and identify what the problem is.

Warren

I did the update and now when I turn the airport on the whole computer runs real slow. if I leave the airport off it runs fine....weird?! anyone else had this problem?

Since I ran the last update, I have been unable to browse SMB shares running on my XP box on my mac. the mac always said "the location could not be found". After installing this update and rebooting, it can now find the shares again.

Hurrah. Now my internet at home is repeatedly dropped. I'm lucky to get a few minutes of wifi connection. I rebooted, didn't work. Internet is just fine on my roommate's PC.

Strange, because my MBP works alright at the university.

"2008-004" conflicts with some NetGear wireless routers, in particular, with my WGR614. I tested against the following combinations:

Leopard without 2008-004, with NetGear: Good
Leopard with 2008-004, with NetGear: Bad
Leopard with 2008-004, with Air Port Extreme: Good
Leopard with 2008-004, with an unknown router: Good
PC, with NetGear: Good

The "Bad" means the web access becomes so slow that 9 out of 10 times Gmail could not even show its login page.

My wifi keeps dropping and reconnecting, and I can't run Time Machine anymore with my USB hard drive. The drive is mounted, but Time Machine "cannot find the backup device"... NOT happy at all.