10.5.8 slow Airport when on battery


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Hi there,

As they explain here: Apple support discussions

People have some slowdown airport/wifi issue after updating to 10.5.8.

They talk about an halfed bandwith on battery compares to a normal bandwith on power adapter:

as seen on the thread

"// on power...

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.930 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.126 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.434 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=2.325 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.036 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3.036 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=2.180 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=3.100 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=1.821 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=2.008 ms

// on battery...

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=245.190 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=172.162 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=93.776 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=235.040 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=168.364 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=226.567 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=163.696 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=604.404 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=219.934 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=99.750 ms"

It seems to vary between the MB models from 2006 to 2009.

Do you guys here at neowin have some issues after updating?

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Tested 10.5.8 with a 2007 Spring/Summer Macbook Pro 15", I can't replicate the issue.

Normal pings, normal speeds (note that this was a fresh install with 10.5.8 dropped on top from a cloned image).

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