Apple issues patch to speed up Airport after troublesome 10.5.8 update

I'm not quite sure what my Macbook is, but it must be an early-2008 or earlier Macbook because it's the 15-inch black one. So I downloaded the patch because, like so many others, I've been really frustrated with my wireless since I installed the 10.5.8 update. My husband has a toshiba and his wireless is like angelsong... I just used a stopwatch (AFTER INSTALLING THE PATCH!!!!) and it took a whopping 46 seconds to load Facebook. I'm really pissed and have no idea how to fix this. Anybody???

Somehow this is not for my late 2008 MBPro Build 9L30; very annoying, dropped connections: ditto "I'm not getting this patch in Software Update either. I have a Late-2008 MacBook with 10.5.8."

I'm having what sounds like the same problem with a macbook purchased in spring 09. I thought it was the new router I bought (Netgear Rangemax), and was going to take it back but now that I see everyone else complaining I see that that may not be it.

I have a Aug '07 white MB and am having loads of trouble the past few days. tried to get the update, but my machine isnt on the list I guess. So my question is, what am I supposed to do??? I have the Apple installed airport card it came with that is sporadic at best. Come on Apple!!!

I have an early-2008 15" MBP. I noticed that 10.5.8 was really significantly worse than previous releases in terms of interactive ssh connections to other machines on my LAN (which is something I do a *lot*). An easy way to measure the problem, or something related to the problem, is to "ping" the laptop from elsewhere on your LAN. On power, the response is consistently sub-millisecond. Off power, 10.5.8 was showing erratic times up to and over 1 second :-(. It looks to me like they are trying to shut down the radio to conserve power, and overdoing it.

The patch makes it significantly better, but still not great.

This looks a whole lot like problems that I had last year when I first got the MBP. Recent 10.5 updates had pretty much cured the issue, but 10.5.8 brought it back ...

I've downloaded and installed the patch and I haven't seen any improvement at all. I didn't even really connect the slowdown to the system update in my mind until seeing this article (my brain is slower than my network, apparently). I may have to actually use the Apple Care support for once to try to solve this, if the patch worked for everybody else. Not me.

I have an early 07 MacBook that keeps dropping the connection to the USB HDD I have hooked up to my APE. I have not been able to backup over the air to Time Machine in over two months now.

I have an early 2008 MacBook Pro and a TimeCapsule 1TB, 10.5.8, updated everything, blah, blah, blah... so I downloaded the "patch." Unfortunately, the required restart sent my MBP into an infinite loop. I gave it an hour to finish shutting down, at which point I forced a kill.

Upon restart, my wireless is gone! I can't connect. AirPort Utility cannot see the TimeCapsule. My MBP can't join my AirPort network: it reports an invalid password or (usually) a timeout. Cycled the TimeCapsule and the DSL modem to no effect.

No doubt I'm the only one and it's all my own fault. But consider yourself warned.

Ever since 10.5.8, my MBP has been plagued with WiFi issues. My WiFi only seemed to work when I had my power cord attached and it seemed sluggish at best... as soon as I removed the cord, it completely crapped out, it couldn't even pull an IP address from my router. This update fixed it! I am writing this comment cord-fee!

MacBook 5,2 and MacBook 4,1 no notice about Airport Client Update