Hooray for Revisions

Maybe it’s a desire to be cutting edge, maybe it’s plain old greediness, maybe it’s an uncharacteristic need to belong, but I love updating and upgrading. If there’s a firmware revision or a feature upgrade, guaranteed I’ll be downloading and installing it. Sometimes, like last weekend, this can cause problems. I don’t have an Airport pod, but my PowerBook is wireless so I installed the Airport Update v3.4 for the heck of it last weekend. Almost immediately I started seeing a difference. My antenna range noticeably dwindled and I was having trouble getting online unless I was very close to the router.
    It appears I’m not the only one experiencing these problems. A revision to this software was rumored. And I discovered it was released tonight, coincidentally when my connection problems were at their worst. I just ran Airport Update v3.4.1 and things are happily back to the way they were. Case in point, I’m writing this from the other end of the house. A nice relief.