10.4.6 upgraded my Airport firmware!
As the title says, I just downloaded the intel build of 10.4.6 and I immediately checked my firmware version, just in case, and voila, it changed from 0.1.12 to 0.1.17. I ran network utility:
Ping has started ...
PING www.l.google.com (72.14.203.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=28.790 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=26.939 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=24.676 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=26.795 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=28.070 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=244 time=28.378 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=244 time=27.566 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=244 time=25.840 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=244 time=26.977 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.203.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=244 time=25.146 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 24.676/26.918/28.790/8.373 ms
This seems to have eliminated my problem with wireless (I will be keeping my eye on it though). For now, all of those 200+ms figures have gone away, along with that annoying packet loss problem (I was going at about a 50% success rate before this update)!
you can also get the mother load download which will update more than what software update "thinks" you need.
I usually get the full version to make sure that everything is addressed in case I accidentally deleted something I should not have.
The combo one is here http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1046comboforintel.html
and weighs in at 191 mb.
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