So I got my MacBook Pro some days ago. As I was downloading software to install in the new laptop and transferring data files from my desktop, I noticed crawling glacial wireless speeds.
I conducted a little test, and the MacBook Pro was transferring at 850kb/s while and old Compaq XP was transferring at 1.2mb/s. WTF?
Googling "Macbook pro Air Port slow" got a bunch of stuff that got me the idea of taking the laptop to the nearest Apple store for a check.
Well, that trip to the Apple Store was a semi-fiasco. The store was choke-full of people in line for the "Genius Bar". It occurred to me to test the MacBook Pro on the Apple Store wireless network while I waited for my turn. The transfer speeds there where lightening fast. So, the issue was not the Air Port in the MacBook Pro, but a configuration issue with it in combination with the wireless router at home.
When my turn came at the Genius Bar, the person helping me, suggested as a solution, to replace my router at home with an Apple Air Port base router to solve all my problems. Genius.
Well, "no thanks" I will find the right configuration to make it work, I said, and as I was walking out of the store, it occurred to me to check the network configuration of the laptops in display at the store. Ah-ha! I discovered some hints there. With my handy-dandy iPhone "Camera Genius" I took some pictures of the screens to replicate the configuration at home. So the trip to the Apple Store was not a total waste of time.
On my way out I was internally brewing new ways to poke fun at technology an deride Apple when all of the sudden I came across a succinct reminder of why I made the switch form Microsoft back to Apple a couple of years ago.
A "hung" Coke machine unable to re-boot some version of Windows XP. No way to do the 3 finger salute (Ctl-Alt-Del) on this hardware....Someone coud try Coke-DrPepper-Sprite.
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