[X-Apps] Airport signal strength / MacStumbler

[Ken Rossman]

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
> On 8/1/03 4:58 PM, "Ken Rossman" <rossman at columbia.edu> wrote:
>> In any case, I was wondering if other people are having the same kind 
>> of
>> experience with airport networks "coming and going" (varying widely in
>> signal strength) during the normal course of usage.  I am wondering if
>> my iBook is perhaps a little bit broken (it IS pretty banged up and is
>> in a questionable state otherwise).
>
> The same thing happens to me, with a 14" iBook also.  I don't know if 
> it's
> the iBook, the base station, or perhaps interference.

I have dinked around inside my iBook a few times with the Airport card, 
and
wonder if maybe I pinched a wire or pulled something a little bit loose 
in
the process, thus perhaps explaining this unstable signal phenomenon.


Ken Rossman
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