[Ti] Airport range

[John McGibney]

> --On January 10, 2005 10:44:44 PM -0500 Jim Freeman <jpfreeman at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> 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.
>> 
> If you just want to improve the signal to the iBook in the office location,
> the cheapest way to go is to get an external WiFi card and download or
> purchase the open source or IOXperts driver. I use an old Orinoco Gold card
> on occasion when I'm in a place where the signal is a bit too weak for my
> Airport card inside the Aluminum or Titanium case of my PowerBook.

Sounds like a loose antenna. If the iBook card is a user installable item
the owners manual should have instructions you can use to access the card.

John 
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