Slow Airport Connession

I guess many people are having the same problems, so I want to share mine, and the solution I found, for now. When I installed Mac OS 10.5 on my new iMac 2.8 GHz 24" I soon started to have connection problems (incidentally, these problems did not occur on my older MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz, which continued to connect fine).
In any case, I found a solution switching fro WEP 128 bit security to WPA 2 Personal. Things seemed to work fine (still slow, but at least the connection stayed on). After installing the 10.5.1 update problem came back, suddenly (but not just right after installing the update, a few days later) connection was slower than on a modem (I have ADSL or ASL according how you call it, it is the same thing). The solution now was to set no security at all. This way connection is way faster, and when using the Airport Utility the AirBase is recognized right away (with security on it was recognized once every 20 or more attempts).
Still... I wonder how Apple can sell an upgrade with problems in such a crucial area as security... I wonder what problems will occur with a further system update now...
Cheers.

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Well, the "speed" really depends on your ISP, it really does not matter if you have a G or N if your ISP has a cap on your connection G & N or even 1Gbps will have no impact on your speed.
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After hours of trying (days actually) i still can't resolve this, so hopefully someone out there can. Running an iBook G4 with Airport Express hooked up to a cable modem, the connection speed - at best - is about 10 kbps, and is usually worse than a dial-up. If the computer is hooked up directly to the modem, speed is as it should be - about 190kbps - so the problem is not the ISP or the modem. Testing on a friendly neighbour's wireless network, my iBook also hits those speeds - so the prob is not with my iBook.
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I have spoken to my internet provider & they mentioned trying MTU's???
MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit. Sometimes adjusting the MTU setting will help when you are having overall throughput performance or just connecting to some websites.
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MTU will vary with connection type. Cable and non-PPPoE, can use up to 1500, whereas PPPoE connections (WinPoet, RASPPPOE, Enternet, etc.) can only use up to 1492.
The best value for MTU is that value just before the packets get fragmented. To test, use the Ping utility.
From Terminal: ping -D -s 1472 www.dslreports.com
Reduce 1472 by 10 until you no longer get the “packet needs to be fragmented” error message. Then increase by 1 until you are 1 less from getting the same error message. Add 28 more to this (since your ping packet size, not including IP/ICMP header is 28 bytes). This will be your MaxMTU. (Note: If you can ping thru at 1472, stop, you’re done! Add 28 and your MaxMTU is 1500.)
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1500: The biggest sized IP packet that can normally traverse the Internet without getting fragmented. Typical MTU for non PPPoE, non VPN connections.
1492: The MaxMTU recommended for Internet PPPoE implementations.
1472: The maximum ping data payload before fragmentation errors are received on non-PPPoE, non-VPN connections.
1464: The maximum ping data payload before fragmentation errors are received when using PPPoE connected machine.

AIRPORT EXTREME RUNNING EXTREMELY SLOW., AIRPORT EXTREME RUNNING EXTREMELY SLOW.

why is a brand new airport extreme running extremely slow. Worked fine before the firmware update.

I nearly fainted when I just read your post. I bought the new airport extreme on June 24, 2011, just as the store was closing -- 8:45 PM. At home it worked well right out of the box, but the next morning it has been nothing but trouble. I wracked my brain to figure out what could change overnight, and your suggestion that it was updated by firmware is logical. Oddly, it works well with my desktop, which is less than two feet away (I don't use ethernet), but in the next room over it is fast only sporadically. I replaced the prior extreme because it suddenly quit, and the genius spent some time diagnosing it and concluded it no longer worked.

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