New Airport Update Issues

Everyone's saying that WEP encryption will fix it, but I was using WEP to start out with! 😟 I have a D-Link DI-524. Booo...I really miss that "system restore" feature on a PC now....

Well, I actually was using WPA. So I change to WEP.

Didnt work.

I changed to NO security.

Didnt work.

APPLE! FIX THIS!

Same problem here :

Last Airport extreme update 2007-002 makes it impossible to connect to my DI-624 D-Link wireless router. Ethernet working just fine through the same router...
But I need wireless connection.

Apple, DO SOMETHING!!! Quick!

Macbook Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Correction to my previous post -- I actually have a DI-524, not a DI-624. Also, after the update, I wasn't able to get WEP to work either, but I've never used it before and I fear the problem may be "cockpit error."

I finally just ended up using NO encryption, SSID broadcast turned off, and MAC address filtering to only allow my computers access. Still want my WPA back.

17" Core 2 Duo iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I too have not been able to connect to my Belkin wireless router since the 20007-0002 update, but the ethernet still works. Even if I disable WPA I am unable to connect to my router.

The only wireless connection I can make is to a neighbour's unsecured router.

Does anyone know how to complain to Mac? I don't have a password for the bugreports site.

Keep posting here your issues with Wifi and router in conjunction with 2007-002 update.

Your router brand model, security settings and if you fixed the problem and how.

What would be the best way to contact Apple on

this

subject?

Here is Apples bug report link

http://bugreporter.apple.com

Many of you are asking about Username and password for Apple bug report. If you have an iTunes account I believe you would use the same username and password as you would use for iTunes (thats what I used and it worked)

YMMV, but 10.4.9 put me back online - WPA-PSK with a DI-624.

Thanks for being a brave person on that 10.4.9 update. Glad to hear it solved the problem. I'll try it as soon as I'm sure no other problems crop up.

Bugreport is not working for me with iTunes login:

I get this response:


Re-enter
RadarWeb An Exception has Occurred (click triangle to view)

I installed the 4.9 update just now and it didnt change a thing. I still cant get on. I'm getting frustrated very quickly. Maybe its the fact that i'm just used to a computer without problems, but this is ridiculous. The internet is 90% of the reason I even have a computer.

Same problem. I am on a Motorola router with WEP at the office. Everything was going fine until I downloaded the update this morning. Spent five hours this afternoon trying to reconnect to my office network with no success.

This is a very big disappointment. I am the only Mac user in my office of 13 people. This system is by far the most expensive in the company, but I'm always singing its praises. It does not speak well of the product when I alone am suddenly, inexplicably disconnected from the network.

Apple needs to fix this immediately.

Downloaded 99.3MB for the MacOSX 10.4.9 Update last night to no avail, Still same systems- only connects to Open Wifi source. No luck with WPA on Dl-624 for me. I will double check all setting and reboot all devices and advise the results later.

YMMV, but 10.4.9 put me back online - WPA-PSK with a
DI-624.

Same issue here. D-Link DI-624 and following the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 update on a new Macbook Pro, cannot connect to the router with WPA turned on. I have not tried swtiching off WPA at home as I have no desire to open us my router and bandwidth to the world! At our office, there is no way that I am going to convince our sysadmin to switch off WPA so that my Mac (the only Apple in the house) can work. As if I really wanted to tell our IT group that my Apple won't work with our D-Link router and give them more ammo for "Macs are not compatible". This is embarrassing! And switching off WPA is NOT a fix.

My iMac intel at home DOES connect to the router however.

This is a very serious issue, and if you do a Google you will find many, many threads from users out there with the same problem. I am not willing to go fiddling about with kernels to downgrade the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 update, and I am not going to switch off security. For those of us in the same boat, our option are:

- purchase a new router that will work with the upgrade. This will not fix the issue where we need to access other D-Link routers that may not belong to us.

- wait for Apple to fix this bug. How long might that take?

As a final comment, it beggars belief that Apple would not have extensively tested this update with D-Link routers and noticed the bug before the update was released. D-Link is not exactly an uncommon wireless router out there.

I have a different issue. I have AirPort Extreme base and and AirPort Express in the kitchen with two loudspeakers. I use to listen to the radio in the kitchen streaming through RealPlayer/AirFoil to the loudspeakers. After 2007-002 update the volume has became low, very low, and I have to put the loudspeakers volume at maximum. This is true for AirTunes too. Any streaming has now a very low volume.

Mac OS X (10.4.9)

YMMV, but 10.4.9 put me back online - WPA-PSK with a DI-624.

Still no go for me with my Macbook Pro and D-Link DI-624

I'm going to present this option I thought of as a question since I'm not an Apple trained OS X expert. That means I'm open to hearing what the perils of doing what I propose would be. So here it is. Would this work?
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Another option is the archive and install feature on the startup disk. Backup any
files that are important or make a clone of the hard drive first (I like SuperDuper myself). Then reinstall the OS with the 'Archive and Install'. After that go here http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mgzty and install the 10.4.8 combo install that was issued Sept. 29, 2006. For those that don't know, that is all the updates Apple has/had issued up to that date. Then it might be safe to do the rest of the updates since then except the infamous Airport update depending on what they cover. Doing the latter may run the risk of mix and matching too I suppose. Staying at the Sept 29, 2006 level of update for a while could be not so bad. I would just continue to be careful from a security point of view.

I am guessing this would take about 2-3 hours to do maybe less.
This might not be practical to do at work but it beats not having WiFi at all.
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So how does that sound?

MacBook Intel Core Duo 1.83 Ghz/Dl-624 WiFi Router Mac OS X (10.4.8) PowerBook G3 Pismo runs 10.3.9/ Lombard too; runs only OS9