Slow wireless speed with new iMac Intel- problem with 802.11g?

There IS a problem with the new Intel Mac, I have tried both the Intel iMac and the new Intel Mac mini and they both have the same problem with slow wireless speed (or rather it variates, if I do a ping to another computer on the network the speed goes from < 1 ms up to 1000 ms and then down to < 1 ms and so on). The older mac minis, my Linux boxes and my Windows PCs don´t have that problem. I have also read reports on the net and it appears that most users experiencing this problem have wireless card firmware version 101.3 (3.120.28.3) . A possible "fix" is to change to 802.11b on the router and then it works. No speed fluctuations and a stabile network! I know it is a bad solution, I would prefer to use 802.11g and get the speed. However I think this points to a problem with the drivers regarding 802.11g. I am starting up a new thread on this and those of you with problems, please try to switch to 802.11b and if it works let us make Apple aware of this.
/Tobbe

Which home hub do you have?
There is some general help at this link Wireless connection problems
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Well, folks, I trolled further, and found the answer further down on this Forum. The solution below worked for me:
MikeT
Posts: 1
From: US
Registered: Feb 24, 2006
Re: iMovie HD not loading
Posted: Feb 24, 2006 6:22 PM in response to: Daniela Sciaky
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OK after reading the other post I have the Workaround/Fix
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AppleWorks on a New iMac Intel

Hi there,
I have a new iMac Intel computer. I purchased iWork with it; however, as I have many spreadsheets (Excel) and documents (Word) on a Windows XP computer I want to be able to bring them over to and work on them on the iMac. I want to keep the iMac as clean as possible and am not sure I want to use the Office for Mac that came with a 30-day trial. What I'm wondering about is whether the AppleWorks or iWork (2006) will allow me to update my existing Word documents. What might I lose? Eventually I'd like to move all my documents, spreadsheets and databases from Windows XP to Mac. I'd like to keep applications that I install on my iMac as native ones if and where possible.
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Hi there,
I have a new iMac Intel computer.
Welcome to the Mac community.
I purchased iWork
with it; however, as I have many spreadsheets (Excel)
and documents (Word) on a Windows XP computer I want
to be able to bring them over to and work on them on
the iMac. I want to keep the iMac as clean as
possible and am not sure I want to use the Office for
Mac that came with a 30-day trial. What I'm
wondering about is whether the AppleWorks or iWork
(2006) will allow me to update my existing Word
documents. What might I lose? Eventually I'd like
to move all my documents, spreadsheets and databases
from Windows XP to Mac.
No application opens or saves Office files as well as Office does. Every other application that can handle Office has varying degrees of difficulty with the Office format. This is because Microsoft haven't made the file format for Office documents open and free.
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TextEdit (only does basic Word documents, think of it as WordPad on Windows)
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Microsoft Office for Mac (mostly perfect, but doesn't include Access - it's not available for the Mac)
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I'd like to keep
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You won't have a problem. It's not native, but it runs just as well as it does on a PowerPC based Mac.
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can open and edit these?
No can do. Hardly any program, PC or Mac based opens Publisher files. Your best bet is to either continue using Publisher on the PC, save the Publisher files into a Word format and use them like that on the Mac, or save the Publisher files as a huge image (eg gif) and import them into any Mac program.
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