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Tiger fixed my Airport Express
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Capo Beach
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Don't ask me to explain how this works but here it is.
Prior to Tiger, my Airport range on my 12inch PB from one specific Airport Express sucked. I mean 1 bar at 25 feet, and spotty at that.
Now, with Tiger installed, all is well. All bars at 30 plus feet.
I have no idea what the problem was, but all is well now.
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A beautiful woman who is not a fool is a dangerous thing.
- Nero Wolfe
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: 127.0.0.1
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At my friend's house, I would have 2 bars sitting downstairs while the base station was upstairs. Now I have all 4 bars in Tiger.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2004
Location: on 650 cc's
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I now have all 4 bars as well, I'm one floor up from the AEX, used to have 2-3 bars, sometimes 1. Now from Mac-to-Mac also reaches over 10MBps, where it used to be 4-5MBps. Nice going Apple! 
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Livorno, ITALY
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Yeah! Mine too was 'fixed'.
I used to have an inconsistend file transfer between my 2 macs with airport express. The bars keep going down to 0, then come back to full, made almost impossible to transfer large files or stream movies. Now I always have the full bar and don't decrease in any case!
I think there was a bug in the previous version... and they should have fixed long ago... instead of putting it on Tiger, by the way for me this is one the "new features"... 
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Carbondale, CO
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They didn't fix anything. They just made the menu bar icon show more bars with a smaller signal. I noticed myself that a certain spot in my house I got only 2 bars in Panther, and now I get 4 bars in Tiger.
But when I check my signal strength in MacStumbler, I still have the same numerical value (very low). So, IMO, Tiger's menu bar is falsely reporting a strong signal when I have a relatively weak signal. I'm sure it is a change dictated by marketing, not practicality.
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Barry
www.LP.org
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Utah
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wow. mine works better, too.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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I've yet to try mine. I hope it works for mine too.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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You get better indications of signal quality, but do you actually connect? Do you get good transfer speeds? That's the real test. I think they rewrote the calculations the software does to provide the status indication. They might have updated AirPort firmware at the same time, but I haven't seen any indication of that (I'm still waiting for my copy  so I haven't been able to play with it directly).
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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