At 11:31 AM -0500 9/16/05, Tom Ethen wrote:
I have never used a 17" Powerbook, but there is a great difference between
my 12" iBook and my 12" Powerbook, with the Powerbook having about half the
range of the iBook.
Considering the 17" is massive compared to the 12" I would expect it to have
quite a bit of antenna wire in the lid, thus the range.
At 2.4GHz you don't use a long wire antenna. That is an antenna that
is, well, long. You use an antenna tuned to 2.4GHz so, depending on
the specific type of antenna it will be a fixed size. The length of
the cable feeding the antenna may vary but the antenna won't. AFAIK
most Macs with Airport capability have two antennas.
Tom
On 9/16/05 9:32 AM, "Steve Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On my 17" PB, which should have the same antenna configuration as the
12", I can get a signal for half of a residential block from my house
> when connected to an 802.11b WAP.
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