Terrible reception with Ti Powerbook

Jonnyfive · Mar 1, 2008

I am getting TERRIBLE reception from my Ti Powerbook. I get 3 bars when i am right next to the router, the rest of the time it seems to be two bars or very little range at all.

I installed the card from my G4 imac and the reception was exactly the same when I am getting full bars consistently with the imac.

What can I do?

I re-seated the card and made sure that the antennae is plugged in properly, I also have all the latest software updates and am running leopard

cwa107 · Mar 1, 2008

Jonnyfive said:
I am getting TERRIBLE reception from my Ti Powerbook. I get 3 bars when i am right next to the router, the rest of the time it seems to be two bars or very little range at all.

I installed the card from my G4 imac and the reception was exactly the same when I am getting full bars consistently with the imac.

What can I do?

I re-seated the card and made sure that the antennae is plugged in properly, I also have all the latest software updates and am running leopard

Try changing the channel your router is using. Most of the time, reception problems are caused by competing signals - especially if you're still seeing poor signal strength right next to the router.

Jonnyfive · Mar 1, 2008

I just tried it with no luck. My 2 other computers on the network are at full bars while the Ti is at 2.

cwa107 · Mar 2, 2008

Jonnyfive said:
I just tried it with no luck. My 2 other computers on the network are at full bars while the Ti is at 2.

Have you tried swapping the antenna leads around?

Jonnyfive · Mar 2, 2008

What do you mean by swapping antenna leads?

In the Ti the antenna cable is soldered to the antenna in the case which appears to be glued to the case.

cwa107 · Mar 2, 2008

Jonnyfive said:
What do you mean by swapping antenna leads?

In the Ti the antenna cable is soldered to the antenna in the case which appears to be glued to the case.

Admittedly, I've not seen the Airport cards in that series of Powerbook, but on a lot of internal wi-fi cards, there are two connectors where the antenna leads mount to the card via a snap-on connector. One is primary, the other is secondary. What I'm referring to is swapping the antenna connectors from primary to secondary and vice versa.

Jonnyfive · Mar 2, 2008

I will look into it. Looking at the card it did look like there was another antenna port with a block stopper in it. I am not sure if I can plug in the antenna there but I will give it a try in the next day or two, I am kinda sick of opening it up at the moment.