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AirPort Software Updated to v3.4
iumacboy writes "Available now in your Software Update, Apple AirPort Software v3.4, which 'provides improved AirPort wireless networking software, and is recommended for all users with an AirPort Extreme and AirPort enabled computer or an AirPort Extreme base station.' New features include: 'improved antenna output control, enhanced logging from your base station which is compatible with syslog, and performance improvements for WPA security implementations.'" Apple also put up some AirPort Management Tools (a management utility for viewing logs and configurations, and a client monitor) but they quickly disappeared.
Out of curiosity, if you're using extreme do you have "interface Robustness" turned on? It seems to me that that decreases the range considerably.
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Oh, bullshit. Despite all the "/. favors platform X over platform Y" memes, the fact of the matter is that /. remains one of the best places to hear about both the merits and defects of just about any OS and/or hardware platform you can name. There is no pro-Apple conspiracy here.
There are certainly those (I'm one of them) who will happily spend mod points to mod down stupid "M4X0Rz 5uX0rz" trolls, but that's not the same thing. As an iBook user, I'm glad to know that I should hold off on the latest software update. A look at the various signal strength posts, most of which are modded "Informative," will tell you that a lot of other people feel the same way.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
No, DAldredge. It's not just your Apple posts that get modded down, it's your posts on every topic. Why? Because more often than not, your commentary demonstrates a lack of even the most tenuous grasp of the facts (e.g. your vaguely racist conception of India's caste system). If only you would get it through your thick skull that the world neither wants nor needs to hear your retarded ramblings, we would all be better off.
Given the fact that Apple -- as the True Believer faction loves to rub in other OS users' faces -- has complete control over the hardware and doesn't have to cover all kinds of variants like Linux or Windows, these things simply should not happen. This is a sign of sloppy testing or bad quality control, just like the famous creaking left handrest on the iBook, the batter cover that is not flush, the vanishing COMMAND-TAB command after using X11, and all the other little things that shouldn't be an issue given the amount of money that we paid for these machines.
Steve, either try harder or open source the bloody drivers. People with three percent market share and products with these price tags can't keep screwing up like this.
Lots of people are complaining about fewer bars, but nobody seems to have demonstrated worse connectivity. It's quite possible that signal strenght hasn't changed but just that they changed the way they measure signal strength.
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