[Ti] Airport range

[Bill Planey]

Is it possible there could be something nearby that is interfering with the
radio signal?  Too many possibilities, I guess, so I won't begin to hazard a
guess as to what.

Bill Planey


On 1/10/05 9:44 PM, "Jim Freeman" <jpfreeman at mac.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to improve the Airport coverage in my apartment. I just
> moved my Airport Express base station into the living room to take
> advantage of the stereo and to locate it more centrally (AX + DSL). I
> still have good internet access with my 12" PBG4 1.33 ghz in my office
> and just about everywhere else, but my wife still has intermittent
> access in her office with her dual usb iBook. This is the latest
> configuration. I've tried several others.
> 
> What's interesting this time is that my PowerBook works just fine in
> her office. With both laptops side by side on her desk, I get 2-3 bands
> in the menu bar airport icon, while she gets 0-1.
> 
> Could this be a problem with airport extreme not being quite backward
> compatible? In a previous configuration I had my old gray 1st gen ABS
> set up and she still had lousy coverage in her office, although the old
> ABS was further from her office than the Airport Express is now.
> 
> Could her Airport card be "wearing out" or something like that? She has
> decent access when she's a bit closer to the base station. Do I need
> another Airport Express to "extend the range"? Would a full fledged
> Airport Extreme base station have a longer range?
> 
> Jim
> 
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