Yeah my buddy has a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and noticed his signal improved greatly with Tiger. He said the upgrade was worth it just for that improvement alone.
Yeah my buddy has a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and noticed his signal improved greatly with Tiger. He said the upgrade was worth it just for that improvement alone.
you know, it's looking that way... at this cafe-hotspot thing, i'm actually across the narrow road from the bakery-cafe with the hotspot...
pre-Tiger, connection was spotty and intermittent, though fast when signal was good.
now, i'm getting full bars and maxing out the 512kbps available through this (paid) hotspot -- $40 for 3 months unlimited. sweet
...mainly for my dad when he is in his office, we don't worry about DSL, just subscribe to the hotspot coming out of the bakery-cafe across the street.
Yeah my buddy has a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and noticed his signal improved greatly with Tiger. He said the upgrade was worth it just for that improvement alone.
same here with my 1,5 Ghz Powerbook.
Couldn't get a signal in the cellar with 10.3, but with 10.4 I get a very good signal.
Airport driver has definitely improved. Not only in performance but compatibility as well. I have an access point that runs in WEP+WPA dual encryption mode, and in Panther my Powerbook just couldn't connect. In Tiger this has been fixed.
I'm just wishing one day there would be WPA2/AES support.... but maybe that's a hardware limitation.
I'm very happy with the airport improvements as well. I use airport to set up a computer to computer network between my G5 and Powerbook. Before tiger I would get the connection quickly but sometimes no volumes show up in the finder. I'd have to turn all the airport stuff on and off again until I got something. Now it works all the time and very quickly.
Same here. Noticed it immediately. Used to get a reduced signal when going upstairs. Now it stays almost 100%.
Seems faster too...by at least 20% (just an out of my ass estimate).
I read somewhere a few months ago (too lazy to look up the link) that 10.4 changed the way the AirPort menu reported signal strength. Previously, the bars literally reflected the power of the signal being received, but now it reflects throughput instead. Rationale being, sometimes even if you're a bit further away--say, with ~65-75% signal strength--actual download/upload speed will still be just as good as if you were right next to the access point. Long story short, you might not actually have a better connection than you did before; it just looks like it.
The Air Traffic Control Widget works really well for helping you find the strongest signal within range.
I read somewhere a few months ago (too lazy to look up the link) that 10.4 changed the way the AirPort menu reported signal strength. Previously, the bars literally reflected the power of the signal being received, but now it reflects throughput instead. Rationale being, sometimes even if you're a bit further away--say, with ~65-75% signal strength--actual download/upload speed will still be just as good as if you were right next to the access point. Long story short, you might not actually have a better connection than you did before; it just looks like it.
The Air Traffic Control Widget works really well for helping you find the strongest signal within range.
Fair enough, but I think a number of people have reported "actual" better reception, eg, being able to get better speeds from a router when at the same position as they were pre-10.4, and also people not having to use their wireless repeaters as much...
Fair enough, but I think a number of people have reported "actual" better reception, eg, being able to get better speeds from a router when at the same position as they were pre-10.4, and also people not having to use their wireless repeaters as much...
I wonder if any of this was included in the recent Airport 4.2 release, because my home WiFi is *much* better suddenly. More solid signal, and yeah, it feels quite a bit faster.
I gotta say Dlink uses some sort of super-high quality DSP's in their wireless stuff. I can pick up hot spots 4 houses away and across the street where airport has trouble from my driveway.
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Originally posted by hmurchison
Yeah my buddy has a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and noticed his signal improved greatly with Tiger. He said the upgrade was worth it just for that improvement alone.
you know, it's looking that way... at this cafe-hotspot thing, i'm actually across the narrow road from the bakery-cafe with the hotspot...
pre-Tiger, connection was spotty and intermittent, though fast when signal was good.
now, i'm getting full bars
...mainly for my dad when he is in his office, we don't worry about DSL, just subscribe to the hotspot coming out of the bakery-cafe across the street.
Originally posted by hmurchison
Yeah my buddy has a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and noticed his signal improved greatly with Tiger. He said the upgrade was worth it just for that improvement alone.
same here with my 1,5 Ghz Powerbook.
Couldn't get a signal in the cellar with 10.3, but with 10.4 I get a very good signal.
I'm just wishing one day there would be WPA2/AES support.... but maybe that's a hardware limitation.
Seems faster too...by at least 20% (just an out of my ass estimate).
Originally posted by SDW2001
Same here. Noticed it immediately. Used to get a reduced signal when going upstairs. Now it stays almost 100%.
Seems faster too...by at least 20% (just an out of my ass estimate).
I read somewhere a few months ago (too lazy to look up the link) that 10.4 changed the way the AirPort menu reported signal strength. Previously, the bars literally reflected the power of the signal being received, but now it reflects throughput instead. Rationale being, sometimes even if you're a bit further away--say, with ~65-75% signal strength--actual download/upload speed will still be just as good as if you were right next to the access point. Long story short, you might not actually have a better connection than you did before; it just looks like it.
The Air Traffic Control Widget works really well for helping you find the strongest signal within range.
Originally posted by Reid
I read somewhere a few months ago (too lazy to look up the link) that 10.4 changed the way the AirPort menu reported signal strength. Previously, the bars literally reflected the power of the signal being received, but now it reflects throughput instead. Rationale being, sometimes even if you're a bit further away--say, with ~65-75% signal strength--actual download/upload speed will still be just as good as if you were right next to the access point. Long story short, you might not actually have a better connection than you did before; it just looks like it.
The Air Traffic Control Widget works really well for helping you find the strongest signal within range.
Fair enough, but I think a number of people have reported "actual" better reception, eg, being able to get better speeds from a router when at the same position as they were pre-10.4, and also people not having to use their wireless repeaters as much...
Originally posted by sunilraman
Fair enough, but I think a number of people have reported "actual" better reception, eg, being able to get better speeds from a router when at the same position as they were pre-10.4, and also people not having to use their wireless repeaters as much...
Exactly. I swear my connection is faster.