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<DIV>In a message dated 6/21/2006 12:51:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ronsteinke@mac.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On 20
June, 2006, at 9:58:55, LeftyZ@aol.com wrote:<BR><BR>> While all three of
my laptops work GREAT in my office (where the <BR>> router is) using
the wireless cards, when I go to the backyard <BR>> (through the
house from my office -- about 100 feet from the <BR>> router), the
two cheap PC laptops (each under $1,000) continue to <BR>> work well
for internet access using their cards....yet, my $2,800 <BR>> 17-inch
G4 PowerBook gets no signal from the router at all.....<BR>><BR>> This
is frustrating. Any ideas? Is the AirPort Card just
weaker?<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>ronsteinke responded.....</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>You
didn't say whether the PCs have any part of their cards exposed
<BR>outside of their cases. Are the cards being used in the PC laptops
<BR>the PCMCIA variety? Do they have an external portion of the card
that <BR>sticks out of the PCMCIA slot?<BR><BR>It is very probable that
those cards have their antennae concealed in <BR>the portion that
protrudes outside the laptop case. In which case, <BR>they would have
the benefit of a more sensitive antenna than the Mac
<BR>laptop.<BR><BR>From this, I would suggest that your difference in signal
strength <BR>and performance is more dependent on the external antenna
that a <BR>PCMCIA card sticks outside the laptop case.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Both the PCs are internal cards that came with the computers.....no
external antennae. I'm surprised that they'd have more sensitivity than
the Apple with the AirPort card.</DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>