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AirPort Issues in Mac OS X Leopard

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Numbers of users reported that they were having problems with AirPort in Mac OS X Leopard. So far I have not personally encountered any problems with AirPort.

I installed Leopard on the following machines:

  • 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 (Aluminum PBG4 1st generation) – Clean Install
  • 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 (DDR) – Clean Install
  • 1.67 GHz PoWerBook G4 (DDR2) – Archive and Install
  • MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.0 GHz (1st generation) – Clean Install
  • iMac Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz (Aluminum) – Upgrade

None of the machine above has any AirPort issues. I included the installation method to see if there’s any correlations with the said AirPort issues.

I’d certainly recommend Clean Installations of Leopard instead of upgrading. I found some weird issues with the Archive and Install method on the 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 (DDR).

4 Replies to “AirPort Issues in Mac OS X Leopard”

  1. I did an upgrade on a 1.67 GHz PowerBook and am seeing Airport problems using a Linksys wireless router (802.11B and 802.11G)

    If it’s not too much trouble, try clean install Leopard. I’d say it’d be a lot better.

  2. I did a clean install of Leopard on 2GHz MBP. Airport drops in and out on a variety of different routers. Fingers crossed the soon to be released update fixes this!

    What model of routers are you having problems with?

  3. I upgraded and am facing problems of losing my wireless connectivity and my notebook shutting down (or a screen that says restart) everytime my download speeds drops to zero. Will the Leopard uograde help solve this problem. Now that I am back on Tiger it does not recognise my external hard drives (only recognizes them on Leopard) so i cannot retrieve my date till I upgrade to Leopard.

    Have had the apple tech guys do a hardware test which found nothing so its definetly Leopard.

    Did you do “Upgrade”, “Archive and Install”, or “Erase and Install”?
    Try clean install (“Erase and Install”). Immediately apply the 10.5.1 update. That should works.

    About your external hard drive, I’m not sure what’s going on. Connect it to your Mac, then launch “Disk Utility”. Select the drive then click “Mount” to mount the partition. I doubt that Leopard changed your hard drive partition tables.

    hope this helps.

  4. I to am having Airport issues. I have a Linksys WRT150n.

    My connection drops randomly and 4-5 times a week – very frustrating. I reboot the router and it still won’t connect – reboot the Mac – bingo.

    I did an upgrade from Tiger simply because I am relatively new to Mac OS X. I might image the machine and try a clean install. Seems a bit of an arduous task having to install all of my apps afterwards though.

    I’ve also had some other random issues since upgrading, so perhaps a clean install is best.

    I’m a Microsoft Consultant and would never upgrade Windows, not in a million years, so perhaps I should take that mentality with me to my Mac OS!

    It all depends on the conditions of your previous Mac OS X install, or in general it depends on the previous version of the operating system. I always do clean install.

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