[ibook] Airport works while lid closed?

[Angus Wallace]

Are you sure about this? The reason I ask is that I think the ibook tends to
maintain (wired) network connections even while asleep.. (though I could easily
be *completely* wrong here.. ;-)


Quoting Matt <chester_the_lp_dork at yahoo.com>:

> When the lid is closed the iBook goes to sleep so 
> it's not transmitting.
> 
> Matt
> --- Tom Legare <Tom.Legare at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have an original Airport Base Station hooked up to
> > Comcast cable 
> > service, and we are running a few devices, all with
> > 802.11b:
> > 
> >       - ibook 500
> >       - Windows 2000 laptop
> >       - 2 gaming consoles (using external ethernet
> > wireless adaptors)
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with lag when online gaming, and
> > after tracing the 
> > problem extensively, the problem seems to be more
> > with my wireless 
> > network than anywhere else.    I will get very
> > "bursty" response, 
> > meaning that 80% of the time I don't have any lag,
> > and then 20% of the 
> > time I get huge lag.
> > 
> > For the windoze laptop I just pop out the wireless
> > card when I'm not 
> > using it, otherwise that thing collects viruses in
> > spite of all the 
> > spyware protection I have on it
> > 
> > For the iBook I just close the lid.
> > 
> > My question.... when the iBook is closed, is the
> > airport card still 
> > transmitting?  I know that the optical external USB
> > mouse that is 
> > attached keeps its laser beam on, so at a minimum
> > the USB port is still 
> > powered.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
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