24 comments

Not for me. I keep losing my connection even after the update. I just went in to the apple store to get it fixed.

Brett, on May 31st, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Confirmed: since the .5.3 upgrade, the Airport connection in this MacBook Pro has not failed to lock on to my home (or other) signal at anytime. Prior to that, after resuming from sleep or even just when returning home, I often had to re-boot the wireless router, even though other machines could see it and acquire a signal, before the MacBook would deign to acknowledge that it was there…

Chris Bulow, on May 31st, 2008 at 12:29 pm

Problems? I’m sorry to disappoint you: 10.5.3 solved mine so far!

BOK, on May 31st, 2008 at 12:34 pm

I was losing my connection every 10 or 15 minutes before the update. Since the update I have had no problems at all.

Dylan, on May 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Definitely improved my 802.11g performance/reliability-the frequent dropouts and “scanning” pauses seem to be gone now.

MacBooker, on May 31st, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Unfortunately, the update doesn’t seem to have fixed it for me. I *might* say that things have improved a bit, but I’m still getting random drops, and it’s driving me crazy!

Kevin Haggerty, on May 31st, 2008 at 6:17 pm

My Mac Book Pro works fine with Fujitsu wifi-router before and after update. But my wife’s Mac Book fails to work with this particular wifi-network after resuming from sleep, though it worked fine with it before 10.5.2 update. And 10.5.3 hadn’t solved the issues…

Nikita Shulga, on May 31st, 2008 at 6:45 pm

I have a dream that someday my Mac Mini will hold its Airport connection for more than an hour. That would be awesome. 10.5.3 did nothing to improve it.

Grant Hamilton, on June 1st, 2008 at 3:26 am

I did never lose my connection, only file transfers are still very slow

Chiljon, on June 1st, 2008 at 3:43 am

I’m still having problems. My MacBook seem to pick up the only non-locked wireless signal from my house fine at certain regular times of the day, then the signal gets steadily weaker until it’s unuseable by 8.

. . . of course, maybe I should just stop piggybacking and get my own router. XD

MacBookGrl, on June 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am

I’ve never had problems with my connection, before of after patch. MBP, 2.2Ghz C2D. Weird, eh?

Cheers,
Thomas

Thomas, on June 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Prior to 10.5.3, my SlingBox which is connected to an Airport Express which in turn is connected to my Extreme Base Station was regularly dropping the connection. Has been rock solid ever since updating to 10.5.3.

Kerry Plunk, on June 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm

So that’s what’s been going on and, no, it isn’t fixed and it’s driving me crazy. I invested in an Express to try to boost the signal; no soap. I have to keep turning the network off and then back on and then off and then back on and off and on until I finally establish a stable connection. And then my wife will come down to tell me that her email doesn’t work and it’s right back where we were.

Mac owner since MacPlus. My daughter’s gummi Mac manages to keep a stable connection…

Arggh.

Peter, on June 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm

even for me. no problem at all until upgrade to 5.3.
Now, after the update, I loose my connection randomly every 10,15 minutes

Diego, on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Same problems post-patch on an iBook G4 updated via Software Update.

what, on June 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 am

I had no problem until AFTER installing 5.3 Now I have to manually connect to the router after resuming from sleep.

(And it seems to have broken remote printing via Bonjour, too)

Jack, on June 4th, 2008 at 8:18 am

My Wi-Fi’s always been fine.

Does that mean Leander doesn’t care if we download his books? Are you telling us to do that or is it a trap?

Kyle, on June 4th, 2008 at 10:17 am

@Kyle: no trap, Leander put them out on TPB for everyone’s enjoyment.

L

Leigh McMullen, on June 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

My MacBook’s even worse AFTER the 10.5.3 update. It now drops intermittently every minute or so!!!! Driving me crazy. I’ve changed channels, deleted airport preferences files to no avail…..

axelle, on June 5th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

I bought a MacBook Pro with 10.5.2 and now upgraded to 10.5.3. Using a Linksys WRT160N router on wireless home n/w with Comcast cable modem. Airport has consistently been scanning since Day 1…bigtime frustrating…when will Apple make the fix??

roger, on June 14th, 2008 at 6:56 am

I upgraded to 10.5.3 and afterwards i could no longer reliably use my neighbors super fast wifi connection. I assumed it was because of the update as I downloaded the 420 mb update super fast and afterwards i could not maintain the connection. I downgraded back to 10.5.2 and this fixed my problem! 10.5.3 made my wifi worse..

ian, on June 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm

This is driving me insane, it goes from 100% strength to nothing, then it says it can’t find my network. Even when the network become available on the list, it doesn’t connect automatically, I have to click. What’s causing the drop?

Andrew, on June 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 am

yeah 10.5.3 definitely has something wrong with it having to do with wifi signal strength

ian, on June 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm

I can confirm that 10.5.3 broke something in wifi on my MacPro. Prior to this install wifi was rock solid … 4 bars all the time. Now it fluctuates between none and 2. I reinstalled Leopard to be sure. Before doing the 10.5.3 updates I had 4 bars. After I was back down to 2.

Nathan, on June 26th, 2008 at 7:27 am