[G4] WIFI

Garth Fletcher garth at JacqCAD.com
Sat Apr 7 20:24:35 PDT 2007


From: Warren Hemple <Badhawk at comcast.net>
 > I just bought  a 12" 1G Ibook with built-in AP extreme.  WIFI range
 > is about 10 feet any suggestions.
 > My WIFI router is on the 1st floor and my My dell and IMAC work on
 > the 2nd floor no problem, so signal is strong is good.

I ran into a somewhat similar situation - apparently OK signal but
very slow file copying.

Switching from the default Channel 6 to Channel 11 completely solved
the problem.  File copying went from 30 KB/s to over 500 KB/s.

Apparently the problem was interference with a 2.4 GHz cordless
phone...
-- 
Garth


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