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Panther: Airport signal strength reduced?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Reston, VA
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Prior to the install I had 4 bars at full strength. Now I can't get more than three bars. My environmental conditions have not changed, same location, just about 50mins later after the install.
Has anyone else had a similar effect?
thanks.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: United States
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Mine works the same to me. Been using it for about 2 hours now.
Ming
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A Proud Mac User Since: 03/24/03
Apple Computer: MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB Memory, 120 GB HD
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Boynton Beach, FL, USA
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My airport reception seems to fluctuate from 3 to 2 then back to 3 bars....it did not exhibit this before... 
I have a brand new (since 10/6) 15" pb 1.25 GHz
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: GR, MI
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odd mine is higher by 10-15% on a 1ghz tibook. I don't think it's panther but i'll take it.
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"This is fun, right?"
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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I think panther more accurately reflects airports strength than jag.... If I graphed my airport signal in realtime the bars in Jag were always artificially high.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Mines' down from four to three, but I think it's just reporting more accurately. Pre-Panther I'd see four bars almost to the point when the connection would drop altogether - this seems to match up better to the signal strength meter in Internet Connect.
MacStumbler shows I'm getting the same actual signal as before.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Reston, VA
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cool. thanks guys.
I'm on a new 15" 1.25ghz PB. Pather seems nice so far.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2003
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but if you check internet connect, the waving greyed out portion is now replaced by a different scale of meters ticked out.
Not looking at the bar on top, which now drops from the total top all full to one notch lower.
But when checking the internet connect, it reads exactly the same 75% so my guess is nothing is really different.
At least I hope so. I did test the speed of my airport connection and earlier it was just over 1 MB. Before it was testing out above 3 MB.
An hour later the tests now show almost the exact same scores for both download and upload, albeit so far slightly less.
On a cable modem, can't rule that side out as a factor.
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Well, aye hearrrrr you
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Cali
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83caddy16v
I had the exact same situation was you. I had full bars now I have one less.
I would like to think that it is reporting it more accuralty now, but who really knows?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: United States
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Did you guys remember to update the firmware? When I checked the version of it after I installed Panther (clean install) it was still 5.1.1 firmware, I than did a update to make it 5.1.3. Not sure if this would solve anything... but worth a try I guess.
Ming
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A Proud Mac User Since: 03/24/03
Apple Computer: MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB Memory, 120 GB HD
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