If your airport connection isn't dropping but it is extremely slow......

I think I have solved my problem. A friend fixed a macbook pro on a netgear router and I applied a similar trick on my d-link router and it seems to have worked. On a netgear router you need to change the speed to 2 mbps. On a d-link router change the tx rates (wireless > advanced > performance) to 1-2 mbps. Let me know how you get on. I am now getting pages to download quicker than my girlfriend's pc which certianly wasn't the case before. At last !!! This must be a setting that doesn't affect PPC macs and PC's but did affect us poor people

obviously depends on what router you are using. But connect up to your router... put in default username and password etc.... the setting will be in the wireless settings of your router. In the wireless speed bit I think it is set by default to quite a fast mb/s rate. select a slower option. click apply/save changes. the router will restart. Once it comes back up re-select your wireless network and you should be sorted

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My macbook works normally connected to the charger, but it is very slow when using the battery. What can I do?

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