Snow Leopard 10.6.2 is out

Two months ago I noted:

I finally (finally? hah-hah) upgraded to Snow Leopard this evening. The only glitch: I lost a couple of hours because the airport interface simply didn’t want to the time capsule, I couldn’t get a reliable connection, especially DNS. The third time I restarted the airport device, things seem to have finally settled in, and now it looks like I’m working properly.

via A few quick hits… | Chuqui 3.0.

and here we are with 10.6.2. It turns out I spoke too soon on the WIFI issues, they were chronic, and I had the same problem in LA with my mom’s network — but only when a Leopard device was ALSO on the network. The Leopard boxes never had a problem, and I never had a problem if the network ONLY had Snow Leopard on it.

I “solved” it for the time being by installing a second WIFI network on a second router, which works, but is a hassle. So tonight, I upgraded to 10.6.2, and at this point, it looks like the problem is solved. And no, Wifi and networking issues weren’t even mentioned in 10.6.2’s release notes. Like that suprises me.

This seemed to be a relatively obscure bug — but if you watch Apple’s support forums and other places where users kvetch, I wasn’t the only one nailed by this. But now it’s gone, and if you ran into this, upgrading to 10.6.2 seems like a good idea.

The release notes also mention a fix that MAY be my other snow leopard problem; every so often, running Entourage (out of office 2004; yes, I ‘upgraded’ to Office 2008 and loved it so much I removed it from disk and went back to the older version) would cause the entire user environment to crash and return me to the login prompt. That, by the way, is not a fun thing to have happen, especially the first time when you don’t know to keep everything saved… I haven’t tested against this yet, but I’m hoping this problem is gone, too. We’ll see. If so, the only issues I care about in Snow Leopard will have been resolved. As it is, if I go another 24 hours without seeing the WIFI bug, I’ll declare Snow Leopard fixed and stable enough to install on other computers…

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