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Wireless PC Card
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Hey all, I've searched for this but found the results causd more confusion for me.
I have a Powerbook 1.5 Ghz G4 with 2gig SDRam. The airport card in it works beautifully at home.
But I noticed that in classrooms, theh people on Dells next to me seem to have full strength to the wireless network, but I have none.
Worst, though, is that I've started hanging out in the cofee shops and sometimes I'll start dropping wireless constantly, connect, reconnect (all automatically) or have to force a reconnection. This is random. I goe from full 5 bars (throughput on Tiger, or something?) to nothing. I have tried with Interface Robustness on, and off.
Sometimes it sits at 2 bars.
I have no idea wihere the Access Point is.
Anyway, I don't have the patience to figure out quite what is going on. Would a Pc Card slot wireless card fix this? and which one has drivers for the Mac? Wireless is at least 80% of what I do on this thing and I need reliable one.
A friend suggested that it may be trying to reconnect to someone broadcasting the same ssid and getting confused - that the PCs here may not experience that as they "lock on" or some such. Is there some way I can emulate that?
Once again, i'm sorry if this is the most common question ever. =)
As a note, using istumbler I can see that I jump between 27 to 49 signal (no idea what that is, it is usually around 44) and always 0 noise.
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Last edited by LisaJill; Jul 19, 2005 at 07:27 PM.
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I've noticed this problem when I upgraded to 10.4.1
My Powerbook and my desktop (That does not move) would just loose signal stregnth. When I updated to 10.4.2 the problem went away. The signal never dropped out all together. I use an Orinoco card with Kismac, I never tried to surf the net with it. Try the update.
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I'm absolutely fine at home, full strength, no dropouts. What's kismac?
I just want something that works consistently in public places.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Let's try asking this networking question in the Networking forum...
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Ah, sorry, I thought a pc card would fit under wireless. My apologies. =) Thanks for moving it!
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Right -- and wireless networking is in the description for the Networking forum.
tooki
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Oh c'mon, you're used to people not reading, after 8,837 posts?
*blushes*
Sorry about that.
If anyone has any knowledge in this area, I'm still after solutions. Thank you!
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Does your PowerBook have a PC card slot? My 12" 867 doesn't, but I haven't seen the latest generation PowerBooks in person.
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The 12" do not have PC Card slots. The 15 and 17" do.
tooki
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by LisaJill
Yes, it has one. =)
Makes sense...I missed that when I switched from my Titanium to the 12". Anyway, in that case, try this:
http://www.smalldog.com/product/45405
BTW, nice blog
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Excellent. Thank you, Macola. =)
And thank you for the compliment =)
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