New Airport Update Killing Connection

joshdelight · 04-22-2004, 08:18 PM

I am SO unbelievably frustrated. I have a 1 ghz PowerBook G4 with an Airport Extreme card. I downloaded the current Airport update from Software Updater, and now, even when I have a strong signal, I frequently cannot access the internet (on a WAP where others are accessing it sucessfully). One moment it'll work, the next, nada.

It also seems that this happens more frequently (or, only) when I have a Gnutella sharing client open. All of a sudden my access to the net will die, and I have to restart. This happens on multiple networks, all of which are unrestricted and allow sharing clients.

This did NOT happen before I installed the most recently offered update for the Airport card. Nothing changed besides the stupid update.

What gives? Can I uninstall the update? ACK!

hayne · 04-22-2004, 09:33 PM

There has been a lot of discussion about this problem on macintouch.com and macfixit.com
One of those places mentions how to revert to the previous version.

04-22-2004, 08:18 PM	#1
joshdelight Prospect Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5	New Airport Update Killing Connection I am SO unbelievably frustrated. I have a 1 ghz PowerBook G4 with an Airport Extreme card. I downloaded the current Airport update from Software Updater, and now, even when I have a strong signal, I frequently cannot access the internet (on a WAP where others are accessing it sucessfully). One moment it'll work, the next, nada. It also seems that this happens more frequently (or, only) when I have a Gnutella sharing client open. All of a sudden my access to the net will die, and I have to restart. This happens on multiple networks, all of which are unrestricted and allow sharing clients. This did NOT happen before I installed the most recently offered update for the Airport card. Nothing changed besides the stupid update. What gives? Can I uninstall the update? ACK!

04-22-2004, 09:33 PM	#2
hayne Site Admin Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Montreal Posts: 32,473	There has been a lot of discussion about this problem on macintouch.com and macfixit.com One of those places mentions how to revert to the previous version.