Solution: Intel Mac Wireless Networking Issues
I’ve heard several reports about poor downloads performance on the Intel Mac over wireless LAN. The symptoms are unusually slow download speeds, intermittent connectivity problems, and general flaky performance.
Turns out that it is a conflict between the Bluetooth and Wireless card in some configurations. I finally dug up the solution in this thread from an Apple support site. The gist of the problem and fix is here:
The engineering departments says that there is interference between channel 6 on wireless routers with Bluetooth. They told me to change to any other channel and the problem should be solved. I just changed my D-Link 624 to channel 11 returned to our wireless keyboard and wireless mouse and we now have screaming fast download speeds that match our 15 inch PB.
Surprise, this is the default channel on the popular Linksys wireless router. To fix it, visit your admin server panel (normally at http://192.168.1.1) and select a different channel:
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