On 7/22/03 1:49 PM, Paul Nicholson posted: >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. <snip> >The tiBook is also unusable 20 feet and one wall away in an adjacent room >to the router.
The titanium case of the 15" PowerBook G4 just sucks up the radio frequencies. My Belkin 802.11b router is no more than 10' from my desk, yet my PowerBook G4 rarely registered a signal strength greater than 60. That was a clear line of sight -- no walls, doors, nothing but air between me and the router. When I sent my TiBook in for service, I put the AirPort card in my wife's 14" iBook. With the signal going through a wall, she's getting a 60+ signal strength at 8-10' from the router. Attending Macworld Expos with my wife's original clamshell iBook and later with my TiBook, there was a world of difference connecting to AirPort in the press room as well. When finances permit, I'll look at using an 802.11g wireless card in my TiBook instead of AirPort, since that eliminates use of the internal antenna, which is blocked by the titanium case. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> "As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows." Sun -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
