Network connection extremely slow after snow leopard upgrade

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Network connection extremely slow after snow leopard upgrade

I should first state that my son's new Intel Mac Mini (2009 model) is working fine without any issues - it is on the "n" band. My wife's macbook (on Leopard) and my Thinkpad are continuing to work fine - both connecting to the "g" band of my Simultaneous Dual band AEBS.

On my 2008 model mac mini, the installation went thru fine, but the network connection is extremely slow - it is connecting using the "g" band. Even when I launch the Airport utility, it takes a while to locate the AEBS and then when I click on "Manual Setup", it takes a very very long time to read the configuration. This tells me that the airport interface on the mac mini has some driver issue.

I tried all the suggestions given in other threads (listed below), but none of them worked.

1. Created a new network location and rebooted
2. Trashed the com.apple.airport.airportutility.plist and rebooted
3. Rebooted countless number of times - illogical, but that kicks in when I can't find a solution.

It is past midnight here (20miles from Apple headquarter). Going to wait for another 30minutes. After that, I will use SuperDuper to install my Leopard back on my mac mini which I had cloned before starting the installation.

Appreciate any suggestions - I am open to any prayer solution as well! If not, the Snow Leopard family pack is going back to the Apple store on Monday.

Just saw at engadget: "On a 17-inch unibody we were putting through the paces, the WiFi inexplicably has gone out and we have yet to get it working again."

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2xMac Mini 2Ghz(old+new); iPhone 3G 16GB; Apple TV 40GB, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 750GBSeagateFreeagentProFirewire4data; 1TB USB 4Backups; iLife09

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 12:21 AM

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dliang

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Aug 29, 2009 12:40 AM in response to new2appletv

Looks like a lot of people are having some sort of wireless issue. Including myself, I called AppleCare (2-hour call) and apparently they are not aware of this yet.

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Answer 2

Aug 29, 2009 7:11 AM in response to new2appletv

I've upgraded to Snow Leopard and my Wireless Connection droppped from 16MB/sec (AT&T Uverse) to less than 1MB/sec, I'm on a 2008 MacBook and this is driving me crazy, any workarounds?

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new2appletv Author

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Aug 29, 2009 9:37 PM in response to mediacore

Scanned all the threads discussing various networking issues, tried all the suggestions - none of them helped. I rebooted from my cloned drive which had the 10.5.8 and I was able to access the network without any issues. As soon as I reboot from the system drive which has snow leopard, I have the slow network issue. That proves that the mac mini, my router, home network, ISP connections are all working fine. It is the stupid snow leopard installation. I am not going to do a "clean install" as I have to reload all my apps and reconfigure them.

I restored leopard back from the clone drive and everything is fine now. I am returning back snow leopard until some passage of time. Apple is no better than any other software company which uses paying customers to test their products. I had more trust on Apple which was misplaced!

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Answer 4

Aug 30, 2009 8:25 AM in response to new2appletv

I've partially solved the problem going back to a very old firmware for my router, not acceptable at all.

Any fix/patch Apple?

This is SLOW Leopard for me.

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new2appletv Author

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Aug 30, 2009 12:50 PM in response to mediacore

Which router do you have? I am using Apple Airport Extreme Base Station with simultaneous dual band and connecting my mac mini to the g class band as my 2008 mac mini doesn't support n class.

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Answer 6

Aug 30, 2009 6:03 PM in response to new2appletv

I have a previous gen time capsule, tried everything..no luck at all. cannot pass 1mb/sec on a 18MB DSL connection.

Everything is extremely slow.

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Answer 7

Aug 30, 2009 6:17 PM in response to new2appletv

Are you sure it's not something silly like a time capsule backup taking place ? Did you try looking in Activitiy Monitor and Network Utility to see your actual connection speed and current traffic ?

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Answer 8

Aug 30, 2009 7:24 PM in response to new2appletv

I am having connection problems also. I usually can connect once and all is well. Then it drops the connection, showing due to inactivity in the logs, and then I can not reconnect. The AP no longer shows up in the list and manually trying to connect just times out.

I am running an original Macbook Pro connecting to an original airport extreme using 802.11A. No problems before the upgrade to 10.6

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imike27

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Aug 30, 2009 11:25 PM in response to new2appletv

I am also experiencing network problems! Went from 30 Mb/s to only 5 Mb/s... Macbook 13" Unibody. Hoping there is a solution to this ASAP. Thanks.

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Answer 10

Aug 31, 2009 7:47 PM in response to imike27

THink I found the connect problem:

I am using a Apple Extreme base station with the newest firmware. I would be fine for awhile and then it would drop. I would be unable to reconnect, saying it timed out. I tracked it down to be a power issue. If the laptop is plugged in, then everything works fine. When on battery, it works for a while them stops.

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new2appletv Author

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Aug 31, 2009 7:55 PM in response to Michael Hyde1

Michael,

Your problem seems to be different. My connection doesn't drop. It just stays excruciatingly slow. You macbook should stay connected even on battery. If you still have a problem, please search the forum to see if anyone else is having a connection drop problem (I did notice quite a few threads on that subject). Good Luck!

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new2appletv Author

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Sep 1, 2009 10:01 PM in response to new2appletv

Some more info about my setup:

*Simultaneous Dual band AEBS:*
Radio Mode: 802.11n only (5 GHz) - 802.11b/g
Radio Channel Selection: Manual - 161 (5GHz), 6(2.4GHz)

*Airport Express:*
Wireless mode: Extend a wireless network
Allow wireless clients checked under the name of the network (same as for AEBS).

Both are WPA/WPA2 Personal security. And both the routers were upgraded to 7.4.2 firmware this morning with the hope that it will help.

*N Devices (both working fine):*
Apple TV 40GB
2009 Model Mac Mini upgraded to Snow Leopard - working perfectly.

*G Devices:*
Thinkpad running WinXP
Dell Laptop running WinXP
Acer Netbook running WinXP
iPod Touch
iPhone 3G
Linksys webcam
_All of the above are working fine_.
+2008 model Mac mini -+ upgrade to Snow Leopard shows extremely slow wifi connection that it is unusable. It takes 20min to load apple homepage. When I boot from the clone of my Leopard lying on my external drive, it works perfectly.

I compared the settings between all the tabs of Network-->Airport-->Advanced and they are identical between Snow Leopard and Leopard mode except that SL doesn't have the "Apple Talk" tab.

Appreciate any help to debug this.

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new2appletv Author

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Sep 2, 2009 3:22 PM in response to new2appletv

Another piece of info: The AE is configured to extend the 2.4GHz band (g band).

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new2appletv Author

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Sep 3, 2009 4:15 AM in response to new2appletv

Until today, I had installed SL on my problematic mac mini twice - but both the times, it was an upgrade from Leopard. Today, I created a new partition on the drive and did a clean install of SL. I also disconnected the AE that was doing wireless extension. After the basic installation, the networking seemed to be OK. After that I installed iLife'09. It asked me to register the software after the installation and it couldn't load the webpage! I installed Airport Utility which went fine and it couldn't load the device configurations. Both are exactly the same symptoms that I was getting earlier.

I did the usual CPR - renew DHCP, create a new network location, yada yada yada...

If the networking was bad, it would have been caught by the minimalistic testing most software teams conduct. This is a typical software bug that only reliability and many cycles of compatibility testing can catch <Edited by Host>

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Answer 15

Sep 3, 2009 3:49 AM in response to new2appletv

my connection is loads slower than it was too!! sometimes less than 1m (only usually at 8m like)

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