Comments on: Mac shipments suspended from NYC Schools over WiFi flaw

By: tripleman

tripleman — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:05:14 +0000

For the record, I’m not sure what the wireless issues are. I have no problems either at work or at home, through ethernet or wireless.

I’m not saying it’s not happening to anyone, just not to everyone.

By: WholesaleMagic

WholesaleMagic — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:50:02 +0000

Leopard has problems that affect users on home networks as well.

Some people have reported:

1. Wireless dropping out at random.
2. Wireless hanging, but not losing signal.
3. Slow transfer and internet speeds over LAN.

I have personally experienced both 1 and 2, and if Apple Discussions is anything to go by, so have many other people. The problem is not limited to users of 802.11n, but also affects 802.11g.

By: jfatz

jfatz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:25:32 +0000

I’m not actually sure what the wireless problem is in Leopard, but it certainly hasn’t affected me or anyone I know in any way, so I assume this is something particular to large networks, or higher-level-security-related?

It is, of course, normal business practice to prioritize work in a way that makes the most sense to them. A PR hit always kicks something way up that list, because only THEN does it “make a lot more sense” than other items on the list. ;-)

Obviously every company is concerned with their image.

By: ewelch

ewelch — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:28:46 +0000

Now, Apple, once that’s done, how about fixing the problems in Leopard with Active Directory? Huh?

Deployment of Leopard at our company (with schools in 14 countries by the way) is on hold until the multi-name-controller - or whatever it’s called - bug is fixed.

By: WholesaleMagic

WholesaleMagic — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:43:18 +0000

I’ve got to say, wireless is terrible on Leopard. It was bad in 10.5.0, but it got significantly worse in 10.5.1, and there was no change when 10.5.2 came out. I was extremely disappointed with Apple regarding their lack of communication. There were many threads on Apple Discussions attempting to come up with solutions, but nothing eventuated. It was up to Apple to fix.

What’s even more disappointing is that they ignore the hundreds (and possibly thousands) of users with wireless problems for months, but ’scramble’ to fix the problem as soon as a prominent institution complains. Obviously, Apple is concerned with their media image.

By: jfatz

jfatz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:52:05 +0000

…therefore Apple is a horrible company!