[iMac] Airport signal strength issues

[John Griffin]

We have satellite Internet access on our iMac here in my home office.  
It is with Telesat (Xplornet) in Canada (same as Wildblue in the US).  
I have one of the more expensive packages for SOHO use and it works  
very well and I seldom get dropped. I have an Ethernet cable strung  
between the Satellite modem and my computer which may account for the  
good connection, but I would think that a decent WiFi connection  
between the iMac and a wireless router should work as well. Perhaps if  
you were to get an add-on antenna or repeater to the router it would  
work better for you.

jg

On 10-Dec-07, at 8:15 PM, bertani thomas wrote:

> We recently changed to satellite internet and set up a router for my  
> office.  I have been having quite a few issues with the lack of  
> signal strength on my iMac.  In addition to it being low strength, I  
> frequently get dropped.  I did purchase an adapter from a company  
> that specializes in Macs and I am at least getting service (at one  
> point, I couldn't connect up at all).  It is definitely the location  
> of my iMac as I've moved it out to another area and it will hook up  
> to the router.  I have a Macbook and it gets a strong, steady signal  
> -- though, also, not in the office area where I need it.  We've  
> checked all the "interference" issues we can.  My question is if  
> iMacs simply have a weak signal option and if anyone has found  
> something that will resolve that?