Since you seem to have range problems when using the D-Link card or the Airport card I
might suggest you consider the wireless base station as being the problem. Is it near
any large metal objects, other electronics? Could it be conflicting with your
cordless phone or a neighbor's wireless router? Is it up high so that the signal can
broadcast far? Maybe the base station has poor range?
I have an older PowerBook 3400 and am using an Orinoco card and a Netgear wireless
router (just sitting on my desk) and have been out in the backyard with it some 30-40
feet from the house and it worked fine.
-tom
> ----------
> From: Paul Nicholson
> Subject: disappointing tiBook wireless
>
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I picked up a D-Link wireless 802.11b router for 40 dollars after rebates.
> I've never used wireless with my two year old tiBook.
>
> It works well if the tiBook is within a few feet of the router. If I sit at my
> dining room table, 35 feet away and in clear visual line of sight of the router, the
> connection barely works. Simple web pages take a long time to open, and those with
> pictures often time out before the page is fully rendered. I heard the tiBook was
> bad, but this is unacceptable.
>
> The tiBook is also unusable 20 feet and one wall away in an adjacent room to the
> router.
>
8><...snip...
> Paul
>
>
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