Apple today released AirPort Utility 5.5.3 for Mac which contains bug fixes including the following:
• Resolves an issue that caused the AirPort Utility to unexpectedly quit during setup
AirPort Utility 5.5.3 for Mac is available via Software Update.
More info and download link (10.8 MB) here.
Apple today also released AirPort Utility 5.5.3 for those unfortunate souls who inexplicably subject themselves to Winblows. It resolves the same issue. Now all you need to address is your OS issue.
More info and download link (10.1 MB) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Don’t you mean ‘Wi-Fi Utilitiy 5.5.3’?
I’ll have to check the notes, hope it has a fix in there for us with the new iMacs having wifi problems.
Long story.. But we have narrowed it down to the driver.
Here’s hoping we see an update to our airpor….. Err WiFi next
There is no iMac “driver” update in an update of the Airport Utility. And this one does not have an update for the base station firmware either.
If you have not already, be sure to try starting up in Safe Mode (hold down Shift key during startup), which will run the iMac with “safe” preference settings and no non-Apple software. If it works better in Safe Mode, there may be an issue with settings or third-party software running in the background.
put it to you this way…
Apple Tech’s already have ruled it an Apple software problem.
Bootcamp… works great at full 450 with windblows.
OSX sputters along and can’t stream a 5 mb file.
you have to downgrade your connection to 802.11 b/g to get it to work fine. oh, and remove encryption from your network…
someone posted a log file showing the iMac keeps trying to authenticate over and over and over and over….. even though it’s already connected.
What i was hoping for, is that soon Apple will release an updated driver. as are many of us 2011 27″ iMac owners. Also was hoping the Utility had a firmware update…
If you don’t believe me about the problem, go read the many discussions on it on apple’s support. tech’s have contacted many of us, by phone and email, and some of us are working better… not perfect but we are better than when we started. I went from not being able to stream anything to being able to deal with the occasional hiccup. takes 15-30 seconds to load MDN sometimes…. then it works fine for hours…
Bottom line, apple knows the issue.
safe mode does nothing to change anything, still runs like crap.
been like this since i pulled it from the box and connected it to my Airport extreme. had nothing installed… and took 4 hours to download a 300mb software update… Connected at 450Mbs 802.11n WPA2 encryption. (which is the big problem, drop to WPA… Which is not 802.11 N.. and it works better)
I didn’t say you don’t have a “real” problem. But Apple has probably sold a few hundred thousand of these new iMacs by now, so if it was a widespread problem, the Genius Bar would have a line going out the door. I was at an Apple Store yesterday, and everything looked pretty normal…
Since it is fairly new, you should insist it be resolved under warranty (or AppleCare if you bought it). If it can’t be resolved with your iMac, you should ask for a replacement.
If you haven’t done so already, you may want to try booting from the Snow Leopard installation disc, erasing the hard drive, and doing a new standard installation. And if you did ANY type of “migration” previously (with the initial startup), don’t to it this time. Use it “as it” with a fresh install, with only Software Update installing the latest Apple updates. If it still has this problem, you need to get it resolved instead of waiting for Apple to issue some unknown “driver update.” It may be faulty hardware.
FTB – I’ve got the new 27″ iMac also, love it btw, I’ve only connected to the net through cat5 so far. I’ll try to replicate the issue your having when I get home. It does sound more like a hardware issue to me and not a software issue, but as my “born with a Mac in his room” son likes to tell me when I diagnose any Mac related issue, “leave it to me and the pros dad.”
It’s not hardware… Already ruled out by techs.
There are discussions already about it, techs have contacted many of us, some have brought the iMacs to the genius bar. Same result, someone even replicated it on the display iMac at an apple store in front of all the genius’.
If it were hardware, bootcamp would replicate the problem. It goes away in windows.
There are log files from routers showing the new iMacs are sending out authentication requests constantly. Only under os x, and running correctly under windows.
It’s a driver.
Most of us have been able to remove 90% of the problem, still there but works a lot better. You can’t let the iMac sleep… If it goes to sleep, it comes back to spotty connections again.
Easy there MDN. I have to use winblows because Crestron and control4 won’t come out with a Mac version of their software. I’ll take all the apple software I can get even if it only serves to remind of how things could/ should be.
Where is the iOS version damnit?
With iCloud around the corner, my iPad can be PC-Free, so how do I configure my Airport Base Stations without an app. I don’t care if its an Airport Extreme, Express or Time Machine… you have to use a computer to run the Airport Utility to set it up. Not very practical in the “post-PC” world Apple is taking us to.
Maybe they’ll just allow web-based configuration like other manufacturers do. I don’t care either way… just do something!
There will be a utility in IOS 5 that will enable you set up the Airport and other devices sans the computer.
“• Resolves an issue that caused the AirPort Utility to unexpectedly quit during setup”
I’ve never seen this bug. I was kind of hoping for an improvement in their buggy IPv6 implementation, seeing as ‘Test IPv6 Day’ was June 8th. I can dream…
It’s definitely snappier.
I thought Apple was going to do away with the term AirPort?
I had no idea Apple was developing aviation software.
They should call it Airplane and have Leslie Nielsen be the spokesperson.
Sadly, Leslie Nielsen passed away recently…
“They should call it Airplane and have Leslie Nielsen be the spokesperson.”
The cockpit? It’s a small compartment in the front of the plane. But that’s not important right now!
“No I’m not kidding, and stop calling me Shirley!”
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