Jun 18, 2009 0
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update – Network Trouble & High Pings
So I recently decided to update my Leopard install with the most recent update that was released. It is actually an older update, there is one that was released after this one. But I’d like to mention this one for one simple fact.
Over the past few weeks we have noticed that our office network has been lack luster to say the least. Pings between computers were so high, you’d think that the computers were in another country. After reading through the notes for the combo update that all the Macs in our office needed, I figured that it might help resolve the issue as our problem dealt with Flow Control which is a feature on our Comcast Business Class Router/Modem.
After installing the update we went back through and ran some tests on our network and to our surprise, the issue had been resolved. We went from a few hundred MS to each computer down to below 10ms, which is closer to what it should be on a local network with wireless clients and multiple hubs/routers setup.
So if you’re having problems with your network, computers connected via a wireless connection are running really slow and your pings are insanely slow for a local network, give the 10.5.7 OS X update a try, it will probably resolve your issues.
More about the update can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3397
