Airport drops down, Beacon lost thing...

H*ll, I got this problem since 10.5.3 and now I am sick of it.
Is Apple gonna fix this? I'm thinking of selling my still brand new iMac cause it's done nothing the past 6 months.
I tried 1000 of things.
It's amazing. Hope this will be the central topic for calling apple to do something.
Message was edited by: FerdiV

William,
I know nothing, and wish to know nothing about deep going computer technics and such, this is the main reason for buying a mac.
However, if my internet connection was 100% stable before the update and continuously drops after the update then indeed there might be something else the matter and it would be unfair to blame anyone.
However, having re-installed a 10.5 basic OS on my iMac, which was having exactly the same problems, it ran smooth again.
And running Vista on my MacBook Pro doesn't have any problems either.
I know this is not a scientific trial and error testing method but the sequence of events do allow blaming the external factor as opposed to the internal factor..... ie. something Apple added/changed/deleted within the update.... hence my post.
The change/addition or deletion might be for the best, this I cannot judge, but in this case it would of been good if sufficient information would of been provided in order to provide a proper basis for these changes/addition or deletions.
The fact that this has been going on for over 4 weeks now without any sign of a change deeply disappoints me. And the fact that 1000's of other users don't have this problem, good for them, but judging by the amount of "noise" on the internet I am definitely not the only one experiencing problems with this update.
And being a Mac enthusiast enabling one to technically solve these issue from behind your own desk is nice, but I definitely am not, nor do I wish to be one of these people, I bought my Macs for ease of use, reliability and it's idiot proof setup and use..... and this is not what I am currently experiencing.
Kindest regards
Jan

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