OS X Leopard Airport Scanning Driving You Crazy? A Possible Fix
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[UPDATE 2: 10 Nov. 2008: Downloading the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004 (1.0) did the job for me. Two days in and no drops, much faster load speeds.
From the Apple Downloads site: "This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5."
NOTE: I don't have Airport Extreme. I have an old Airport Express and a Linksys. But it still fixed the problem.
Good luck! Let us know if this did or did not work for you! ]
[Update: See comments for more news on this.]
Is anybody else experiencing Airport Wireless “airport scanning” weirdness in OS X Leopard? Since upgrading to Leopard, my wireless disconnects constantly to scan for other networks - when the network I’m on works fine. My Airport signal is also lower since the upgrade. I know it’s a problem because it’s affecting four - that’s right, four - separate Macs I’ve been using since Leopard came out. And I’m not the only person having this problem, as a quick glance at Apple’s support forum shows.
If you’re having this problem too, this free download, AP Grapher, might help. Since installing it a few minutes ago, I haven’t dropped connection at all. Here is some guidance from the Apple Support forum:
Hi guys
I too have been going INSANE because Apple can’t seem to sort this out. Its enough to drive you mad - especially when they still aren’t acknowledging it as a problem.
Download AP Grapher from here: http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/apgrapher/
Run the program while you browse…In preferences, I set the scanner to refresh every 10 seconds, and the Grapher to refresh every second. Although I’m still experiencing dropouts, the constant activity means they aren’t noticeable at all. It really does seem to work well because it reconnects immediately
The Grapher is also helpful - the Tx rate (yellow) will show you what’s going on and how frequently the connection drops.
…and no - i don’t work for chimoosoft!
Happy camping, Owen
If you’re more tech-savvy than I am, and have a solution for me and others, please drop a comment and help us all out - thanks in advance.
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Yes, this drives me insane! The weird thing though is that I’ve used osx leopard since it came out, but the airport scanning seems to have gotten worse recently. I am going to look into your fix (thanks for sharing it) and will let you know if it works for me.
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Andrea Hernandez
21 Jun 08 at 4:05 am
Andrea - AP Grapher still seems to be doing the trick. Please let me know if it works for you too. The frustration has been constant and endless for weeks now.
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Clay Burell
21 Jun 08 at 4:13 am
By the way, deselecting “Show Airport in Menu Bar” on preferences is another change I made, after reading forums.
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Clay Burell
21 Jun 08 at 4:14 am
nope. didn’t work. still scanning…I used to be able to watch a video with no problem, but now I can’t watch anything without almost constant stopping and scanning. I think it may not be the airport scanning, though, I think it may just be our broadband connection is slowing down.
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Andrea Hernandez
21 Jun 08 at 4:19 am
did you set the settings per “Owen’s” instructions? And disable “show airport in menu bar”? It’s still working for me, and it’s been about an hour.
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Clay Burell
21 Jun 08 at 4:21 am
Yes, I followed all the instructions. I do think there is some improvement. My computer has always done the scanning thing, but it wasn’t bothersome before. Now, like I said, I can’t watch a video. I think it is something other than the scanning. I just plugged my computer directly into the ethernet cable, and it still happened.
I’m glad you solved your problem, though!
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Andrea Hernandez
21 Jun 08 at 6:21 am
Andrea, that’s just weird. For the record, it’s now 18 hours and no dropping problems. Again, I:
1. Installed AP Grapher
2. Removed Airport from the menu bar.
That did the trick, and ended a weeks-long headache.
Sue Waters adds to be sure you’ve updated your Leopard software (Apple > Software Update…. in menu bar). I’d already done that, and it wasn’t enough, but it never hurts.
Let’s hope others weigh in with their own silver bullets.
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Clay Burell
21 Jun 08 at 8:22 pm
UPDATE: AP Grapher only solved the problem for a day or so.
I think I’ve found the REAL FIX for my situation, anyway. It’s this:
Airport Express “Channel” setting was set to “automatic.” I think that caused Airport to scan for any and all available wireless networks.
FIX IT (fingers crossed) by ASSIGNING A CHANNEL TO YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK. See this link for more: http://www.macworld.com/article/45248/2005/06/changechannel.html
Do that by opening AirPort Utility, selecting your base station, and - if it’s set right now on “automatic” - clicking “Channel.”
Then assign a channel that’s ideally four channels away from other networks in your location (AP Grapher’s “scan” view will show you other available networks where you are, and what channel they are set on, to help you determine the best “more than four channels away” setting for your base station).
Hope that helps. It seems to have done the job for me.
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Clay Burell
24 Jun 08 at 3:04 am
Clay, I’ve tried that a few times without success. Let me know if it works for you.
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Jeff
27 Jun 08 at 2:47 am
Hey everyone. My airport scans too, but my connection doesn’t drop. Usually that means it’s having trouble finding the source of the network. And disabling “show airport status in menu bar” has nothing to do with resolving the problem at hand. All it does is stop showing in your toolbar whether airport is connected. I would make sure that the firmware on your router is up-to-date, try erasing all networks except your own in your Network System Preferences, and then look at changing the channel on your router. If you have interference from neighbours or stuff in your home, a channel change should resolve it. Hope that is helpful!
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Caroline
27 Jun 08 at 8:31 am
Okay, lots of hits here, so let me update.
AP Scanner _did_ help reduce the frequency and duration of dropped connections, but it didn’t solve the problem.
I just installed a Linksys wireless router in my apartment, and have had no problem at all: fast loads, strong signals, no drops.
This leads me to suspect that the problem is with my Airport Express. It’s two years old, but worked fine until I upgraded to Leopard. So my guess is that Leopard doesn’t play well with older Airports.
Do all the rest of you have older Airports as well? Or do some of you have new ones?
If you have new ones, then I’ll forget considering to buy a new Airport or Time Capsule, and just stick with the Linksys.
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Clay Burell
16 Jul 08 at 5:16 am
I have a Macbook Pro with 10.5.1 and this has been a problem ever since I bought it. It had Tiger before the upgrade and it had the same issues of dropping the connection. You want to know the funniest part? I use BootCamp and run Vista Enterprise Edition on the laptop. It NEVER loses the wireless connection. So for al the Apple tech guys out there it seems if you want a wireless connection that doesn’t disconnect you’ll need to put Windows on your Mac.
And for everyone stating in all forums that it is a router firmware issue that is completely impossible due to the following observations. My Macbook pro does this EVERYWHERE. I mean it loses connection at every hotel where I use wireless, my friends who have wireless, at my work and my home NO exceptions. Flip over into Vista and no more drops at the same exact location.
So I wasted 2000.00 to buy a silver Windows laptop with a Apple logo.
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cccode
21 Jul 08 at 4:25 am
Airport Express SCANNING all the time .. equals lousy performance - ehMac.ca
21 Jul 08 at 7:11 pm
@cccode (and all): I hate to say it, but the Airport Scanning has returned with my Linksys.
Has anybody heard anything from Apple on this? Maybe it’s a problem only for certain batches of their products, which would explain why some people don’t have the problem, while others do.
I’m reduced now to having to plug in to an ethernet cable to work reliably on my MacBook.
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Clay Burell
22 Jul 08 at 5:02 am
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26 Jul 08 at 4:07 am
Okay, here’s the latest ray of hope, from a support forum:
Anybody else find anything useful?
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Clay Burell
3 Aug 08 at 4:05 am
I have a month-old Macbook Pro (15″) running Leopard that just started doing the same thing. I installed the “radar widget” and it did absolutely nothing.
Videos stop buffering, chat applications close, it’s horrible. I thought it might be my internet connection but when I switch to a neighbor’s connection it does the same thing. I’m thinking perhaps a dedicated channel for my Linksys Wireless router will do the trick (though a roommate has an Airport Express we might try too).
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Jason
7 Aug 08 at 12:38 pm
How frustrating! Here are my observations for what they’re worth:
I got my macbook w/leopard in October. It always did the scanning, but did not drop the connection until recently. My husband uses an ibook, running osx 10.4 that is equally bad about dropping the connection. We have an airport express router. He thought this was the problem, that we should have bought the extreme (the more expensive airport), so it is interesting to hear that people have this problem no matter the router. Finally, I am having the same problem even when I plug into the cable directly. Again, the problem is NEW! I have experimented with watching videos on youtube that I used to have no problem watching just a few months ago on this same computer. Now they stop again and again!! Very, very annoying.
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Andrea Hernandez
8 Aug 08 at 1:27 am
My completely unelegant (is that word??) solution to this has been to start a ping in the back ground to my wireless router. Not a great solution but it keeps the connection stable and active.
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Edward Targonski
10 Aug 08 at 1:27 am
@Edward, if you could post the steps to do that, the hundreds of visitors this post gets each week might make you a hero
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Clay Burell
10 Aug 08 at 1:56 am
Well right now its a manual process of starting a terminal shell and doing a ‘ping 192.168.0.1′ (my router address) from the command line and minimizing the window. As I said not very elegant but its working, I can stream video and share iTunes. Ping is very low priority and is low bandwidth. Its not perfect but it will work until we can get a fix. I am thinking I can probably do this with automator somehow, but I am still working on that. So the steps are:
1. After logging in, open a terminal session and use shell, new window (you’ll have to pick your favorite theme, its personal preference has no effect on the outcome).
2. From the command prompt type: ping (your router/access point ip address) then hit return.
3. With the ping running minimize the running window.
4. Surf as desired.
If I can come up with an automator script I’ll post that as well.
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Edward Targonski
10 Aug 08 at 2:06 am
Edward, thanks so much for that.
For those like me knowing enough just to be dangerous, the Router I.P. address can be located in System Preferences > Network > Airport, right? Under “connected,” mine says “AirPort is connected to linksys and has the IP address 192.138.1.101″, for example.
And this is valid advice I’m giving, right?
Thanks again. People like you make the world better for surfing (fingers crossed).
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Clay Burell
10 Aug 08 at 2:22 am
@Clay: That is showing your IP Address, I am assuming that since your network is named linksys that you have a Linksys Router (Sherlock Holmes has nothing on me!) and that it is still set to its default address which would be 192.168.1.1, you can try it out by following the steps I previously listed. I assume that because the IP you listed, 192.138.1.101, is owned by the University of London, and that you meant 192.168.1.101.
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Edward Targonski
10 Aug 08 at 2:42 am
The typo king strikes again. Good catch, Sherlock.
I guess I’m hoping a “finding your router i.p. for dummies” bit of all-purpose advice might be possible for all the ppl coming to this thread in hopes of improvement.
But I’m getting the feeling that there’s no one-size-fits-all method for finding that router i.p. - true?
Thanks again for troubling, Edward.
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Clay Burell
10 Aug 08 at 2:52 am
Well the gateway is typically the IP address of the web interface for managing the router. For Linksys it tends to be 192.168.1.1, you can identify it by looking at the setup guide for the router or check with the manufacturer. You can identify it in the GUI by opening Finder, Application, Utilities, Network Utility, on the Info screen click the down arrow where is says Network Interface and select the one that is the Wireless Network Adapter, you can see it by where it says Model at the bottom, mine is en1. Then click on the Netstat tab, Select the Display routing table information option and click the Netstat button. The first 2 columns are Destination and Gateway, the entry you are looking for is default under Destination when you see that look under Gateway, the IP address there is the address of the router.
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Edward Targonski
10 Aug 08 at 3:07 am
I should mention that this is another process running and could accelerate battery depletion, but constantly re-establishing a wireless connection can’t be good for battery life. This is also a workaround and I will be testing after each system update to hopefully not need it anymore.
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Edward Targonski
10 Aug 08 at 3:16 am
The minimized ping command is not working for me. I’m still getting constant network drops…hopefully this message will post! I have a 1 month old Macbook running 10.5.4 with all updates current. Thanks for the suggestions and keeping us posted Clay!
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Frustrated Fred
14 Aug 08 at 2:46 am
my solution for my macBook pro/airport extreme [g1] was this:
-disable IPv6 in the network settings
-disable ‘display airport status in menu bar
strange, but true.
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schande
16 Aug 08 at 5:53 pm
schande. Good tip. I’ve been working this ALL DAY and the simple 2 steps you posted are holding up for a half hour now.
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Mike Maziarz
19 Aug 08 at 11:25 am
I jinxed myself… I am reverting back to Tiger (10.4) immediately.
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Mike Maziarz
19 Aug 08 at 11:30 am
@Mike, If you find a link with easy instructions on how to revert to Tiger without losing all sorts of data, please share it here. I’m with you: until Leopard fixes this monumental bug, it’s not worth the trouble. I need stable wireless connections and fast loads more than Leopard’s bells and whistles.
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Clay Burell
19 Aug 08 at 12:27 pm
correction: after a day or so with a stable connection i’m having dropouts again. now i tried disabling airport security and signal robustness with MAC address access control but to no avail.
the only thing that seems to be working is to disable all security options [password, closed network and MAC address access control]; not really an option for most of us, i’m affraid.
no news from apple yet?
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schande
25 Aug 08 at 8:33 pm
I have a (one week old) 24″ iMac running 10.5.2 with the airport scanning issues from the first time I turned it on.
I’m using a linksys WRT54G2 router. I have a MBP (running 10.4.11), an old titanium PB, and a Dell laptop connecting without any problems.
Any advice?
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jen
27 Aug 08 at 11:11 am
Hi all, sorry I don’t have much to offer, as I’ve tried several fixes and today the scanning returned after several weeks of clear surfing. Really frustrating as I have a 12″ G4 Laptop that works fine with tiger, but the 24″ iMac scans and drops connection intermittently.
My best fix so far is to reset the router and change the channel, but its not working today. The website below has a clear analysis and solution chain that has helped me.
http://installingcats.com/2008/06/06/airport-wireless-connection-drops-on-leopard-10-5-2/
There is a comment on repairing permissions that has seemed to help some people as well.
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Joe
28 Aug 08 at 3:56 am
Promising fix. Try this: and out of curiosity, tell us if you migrated an older Mac onto your new Mac, like I did - and like this clever guy did too. That might be the cause….
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Clay Burell
1 Sep 08 at 5:47 pm
I have the new 3ghz iMac and use an older airport extreem and have had the “Scanning” problem since I took it out of the box. there are a few things that have helped but one one real fix so far. firstly I would suggest changing your wireless channel to 5 for all who use apple airport routers/basestations. this is the channel that has the least amount of interference. installing thins such as a ping program or the AP Grapher only makes the problem less but does not solve anything.
the only thing that will work and will work perfectly all the time is to take out all security on both your router and airport card. even with no real security and having mac address protocol on so only selected mac addresses can connect will not work either.
I have personally addressed this with Apple Tech Support and their answer is that I am having interference problems with either my phone or someone else’s network. I know this is complete crap and have phoned back a few times and always get the same response. the only helpful thing I have gotten from apple is the channel 5 thing (which made my internet faster bit still dropping).
good luck to all =)
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Simon
7 Sep 08 at 4:33 am
Try deleting your Real Player
inally! All I had to do to solve the nasty wireless connection drop problem was to remove “RealPlayer Downloader” from my personal account login items. I had read about this solution in this forum in the past but had never bothered with it because I did not believe I had ever installed a “Realplayer Downloader”. I was wrong, it was installed as part of a larger package when I upgraded my RealPlayer software several months back. Further, I was not up to removing all RealPlayer files as had been suggested was required in some contributions. Since then, everything has worked flawlessly and I did not need to leave 802.11n and I did not have to remove all RealPlayer files.
For the less tech-savvy, like me, here is my stab at a step-by-step how to diagnose and resolve the problem:
(1) Under the Apple, select “System Preferences…”
(2) Within “System Preferences…”, go to the fourth row, which has the heading, “Systems” and select the first icon from the left, which is labelled: “Accounts”.
(3) Once inside “Accounts”, click on “Login Items”.
(4) If you have a item called “RealPlayer Downloader” (may not be precisely correct about title as I have vapourized mine), it may well be the source of your MBPs problems. (Diagnosis.)
The cure:
(5) Simply click one time on”RealPlayer Downloader” to cause it to be highlighted, then remove it from “login Items” by clicking once on the “-” (the minus sign) that sits just beneath the sentence that begins with: “To hide an application when you log in …”. Please note that “clocking on the hide checkbox will accomplish nothing for you. You must remove the item from Login Items, not just cause it to be hidden at startup.
(6) Restart your computer.
(7) start enjoying your MBP wirelessly again.
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Clay Burell Reply:
September 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I hope that works for others. It didn’t for me.
Thanks for sharing.
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Prev RP user
9 Sep 08 at 1:15 pm
Apple Still Has Not Fixed Leopard Wireless Dropout Problems
17 Sep 08 at 5:05 am
This has been driving me nuts and still is. I purchased a wireless usb adapter from a company called Hawking Technologies. It works very will. It just sucks have this external antenna sticking out of my computer. But until apple fixes this I’d rather have a stable internet connection.
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Andrew
30 Sep 08 at 6:47 am
another workaround to try out is this:
try configuring your airport with a mac running on anything EXCEPT leopard. seems that the airport utility software in 10.5 is malfunctioning.
did it yesterday, today my connection seems stable.
i’m still very pessimistic about this, so i’m not saying this is a fix. if this isn’t working, i’m passing this silver brick back to the apple store.
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schande
30 Sep 08 at 6:53 am
I’ve tried just about all of the workarounds listed, but alas none work. I have a 24″ 3.06Ghz iMac, and this has been a day one issue. I also have a 17″ powerbook G4, a 13″ macbook, and two iphones, with both the laptops running leopard, and only have the scanning issue with the imac.
I originally had an older linksys router, and decided to buy an airport extreme, thinking there was some sort of RF issue between the 802.11n wireless NIC and the older router. Well, i have the same problem even with the airport extreme. It’s intermittent, some days, i have no problems, other times, i can’t get 30 seconds of stable connectivity.
running a ping to my router results in almost total packet loss:
10.0.1.1 ping statistics —
453 packets transmitted, 67 packets received, 85% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.519/170.476/5410.098/850.303 ms
The airport extreme is only 10 feet away. This is driving me crazy. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to submit this comment…
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Bobby
30 Sep 08 at 7:34 am
When I started to experience these problems I searched the net for a fix and can’t believe how widespread this is and wonder why Apple do nothing?
I have (regretfully) bought an iMac recently. Connection to airport extreme / internet is superb - no problems. As soon as we connect to airport with the macbook or macbookpro (10.4.11) the iMac gets the sporadic scanning situation (dropped connection every minute).
Spent over 4 hours with Apple on their support line, as I am sure other people have done here, which was a waste of time. Basically they followed their script by making sure the firmware was updated, creating new user for airport, suggested changing channels, changing from 2.4 to 5.4 Ghz etc. Evidently its all my fault for living in an area with a lot of wireless activity in the neighborhood.
Each day I have this problem I waste time and money when I should be working, and now my only “desperate” solution is to run an ethernet cable from the airport extreme to the iMac and have the laptops just connect to the wireless. Our cable modem has to be two rooms away so I will need to get planning permission to drill through two walls/rooms in order to get the cable to my iMac….at probably great expense.
I will never buy another Apple product after this mess….I am loosing the will to live with this.
Steve
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Steve
5 Oct 08 at 7:18 am
I have been battling this constant scanning issue since getting a new MacbookPro & MacMini about a month ago… after bragging to wife about how we’d use it to get video from hulu.com etc… but it runs a while & then hangs up buffering.
However… the PING solution appears to “fix” it.. not sure how much the constant ping traffic effects things.
here is the script I am using…
activate application “Terminal”
tell application “Terminal”
do script “ping 192.168.1.67″
set miniaturized of windows to true
end tell
change the 192.blahblahblah to whatever you router ip is. found that in the network control panel.
“Save as” application & you have a steady connection.
Insane, but true.
Jeff
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Jeff
5 Oct 08 at 11:33 pm
Thanks Jeff. Looks like it is fixed without setting up the ping.
I got rid of the real player downloader, as suggested above but didn’t seem to fix the problem. I happened to click on the airport icon and then join other network selecting my own. This did the trick. I read somewhere else, and I lost the link now, that the “join other network” will clear the cache (not sure what it all means), so I think real player was the problem…or maybe creating a conflict between our computers. Who knows.
Anyway, thanks for everyone’s help, very much appreciated.
Steve
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Steve
6 Oct 08 at 1:31 am
Just unpacked my brand new MacBook yesterday, it’s the older, “white” one with Firewire. Lo and behold, I do have the same problem, AirPort: Scanning and dropping connections like gangbusters. Downloads dropped down to zero and then in the hundreds again.
I put a new firmware into my Linksys router, I run 10.5.5, have no security stuff running. It’s super frustrating.
I have no software on the machine but what came with it and World of WarCraft, have to admit it.
Using the “join other network” method did nothing for me, I see the constant scan again.
This is my first Mac and I am clearly not impressed.
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Roland
6 Nov 08 at 4:04 am
Roland - it is very frustrating. I completely understand where you are coming from.
Real Player might have come pre-loaded on your computer, have you disabled the downloader? De-activating this seemed to have helped out a lot of people.
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Steve
6 Nov 08 at 8:55 am
Steve, thanks for the suggestion. I did check the Login Items list - the only one on there was an iTunes help application and I even disabled that one.
I wonder whether this is actually two different sets of problems. Does the scanning message only appear once one clicks on the airport symbol? Or does it scan all the time as the wildly fluctuating download speeds during my patch downloads might suggest?
Let’s see what Apple is going to come up with - I should try a few more applications like Skype that need a permanent connection and monitor the situation.
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Roland
7 Nov 08 at 5:32 pm
Hello Fellow Sufferers:
Apple just released an Airport update that I installed just now, and page loads are MUCH, MUCH faster.
Give it a download and let us all know if you’re fixed too. (And re: the Real Player theory, it didn’t work for me.)
Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end. And thanks for all your input along the way
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Clay Burell Reply:
November 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Here’s the LINK TO THE UPDATE.
It’s “AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004″ (1.0).”
From the site: “This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5.”
Note: I don’t have Airport Extreme. I have an old Airport Express and a Linksys. But it still fixed the problem.
Good luck!
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Clay Burell
9 Nov 08 at 5:17 pm
I have been struggling with this same problem off and on for a long time but most noticeably for the past two weeks. I completely lost connectivity when any farther than 3 feet from the router.
I just downloaded the update for the Airport Extreme and although it might be a little early to judge, I can now be online and actually load pages from the opposite side of the apartment.
I hope this continues!
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Katie Richards
17 Nov 08 at 9:58 am
Hi there,
I had exactly the same problem as you guys! It seems that I solved the problem. In my case the problem started after I upgraded to Leopard. I did the standard upgrade from the installation disk. The performance of Airport was terrible. Before the upgrade it was stumbling fast.
I tried everything, but nothing really helped or was only of temporary kind. So I decided to back up my important file and do a clean install (with format) for all my Apple computers. Of course this was a huge job, but I got crazy with the drop-outs. It seems that this worked, the connection seemed to be even faster.
Then all of a sudden it started again!!! Then I remembered it was not only my upgrade to Leopard that was changed in my configuration. I also added a left-over AirPort Expressed based on ‘n’ to my network. Thought it was convenient to have Internet in the garden. So I took out my only network device based on ‘n’ and everything ran smoothly.
“Now with blazing 802.11n”, well it blazed away my bandwith, so I will put it on eBay and try to exchange it for 802.11b, and 802.11g. Apple claims “Interoperable with Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g”, but don’t count on that. Only when ALL devices are “n” based.
I hope this helped you guys.
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Rene
23 Nov 08 at 8:42 pm
O yeah, one more thing: don’t forget your newly bought Apple will probably have an 802.11n airport card inside. Make sure you upgrade the rest to this standard, because all 802.11b/g stuff will experience problems. Maybe one of you want to exchange your old 802.11b/g AirPort Express into my new 802.11n?
Cheers!
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Rene
23 Nov 08 at 8:51 pm