on 15/06/03 00:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get much better reception with my Lombard and Silver card than my > mother's TiBook with airport. And i have an extra silver card and in > the one pc card slot she gets similar reception to mine. I believe it's > a power thing. Airport cards are lower power which means longer battery > life, but poorer reception. > On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 12:14 AM, Jim Eddy wrote: > >> >> On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 04:25 PM, Brendan McAlpine wrote: >> >>> I refused to deal with the poor reception with my tibook + airport >>> card. I also tried to reposition the antenna with no luck. >>> >>> finally, i grabbed an orinoco gold card for a few bucks and now i get >>> 2 to 3 times the reception of most airport cards and about 100 times >>> better reception than my old setup. >> >> Is this just with the TiBook? How does an Airport card compare with an >> Orinoco card on a Pismo?
Not only that, but it's been widely known that the built-in antenna in the TiBook are poor, resulting in poor reception. The initial AirPort cards were Lucent's ones that were stripped from their antenna and retrofitted with a connector to a built-in antenna in a Mac. I did open my original AirPort base station and Apple didn't even bother removing the Lucent name on it! Of course, those in the AirPort base station had to have their external antenna, so they didn't require any modification... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] brute force adj.: Describes a primitive programming style, one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones. The term can also be used in reference to programming style: brute-force programs are written in a heavyhanded, tedious way, full of repetition and devoid of any elegance or useful abstraction (see also brute force and ignorance). -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
