[jcb9]

A couple months ago, I got a 15 inch Powerbook. Perviously, I'd been using an old clamshell iBook. Anyway, I've noticed that, in my Powerbook's Airport menu, there's an option that hadn't been present in the iBook's menu - "Use Interference Robustness." I was just wondering what this option does exactly. I tried searching in Help, but it didn't come up with anything.

[David Hagan]

I think what it does is improve the signal over any interference, but at the cost of the distance you can be from your base station.

[GeoBob]

As seen in Apple's Help Viewer (Cmd+? in finder).
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Minimizing interference in an AirPort network

You may experience network performance problems if a microwave oven or other source of interference is used frequently near your base station. To minimize interference, turn on interference robustness.

1. Open AirPort Admin Utility, located in Applications/Utilities.

2. Select your base station and click Configure. Enter the base station password if necessary.

3. Click Show All Settings.

4. Click Wireless Options and select the "Enable interference robustness" checkbox.

Client computers with AirPort Extreme wireless cards must select Interference Robustness from the AirPort status menu in the menu bar in order to take advantage of this feature. Client computers with earlier AirPort wireless cards will already take advantage of the feature.

The farther away the interference source, the less likely it is to cause a problem.

For a list of potential sources of interference, see the document "Designing AirPort Extreme Networks" located at www.apple.com/airport.

[C.J. Moof]

Now there's a good first post.

[Podolsky]

Originally posted by C.J. Moof:
Now there's a good first post.

Wow, yes! Here, here...

[skytalon]

I should've known to come here to find out. Had to google it. Defintitely helpful!