PowerBook G4 Laptop Wirelss

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Hi,

I'm running a PowerBook G4 Wirelessly on OSX 10.4 with an Airport Extreme card.

The wireless signal is poor compared to my PC laptop (PC = 4 bars, Mac = 1 bar)

Can anyone recommend me a good USB Adapter for my PowerBook?

Thanks
 
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It's probably because the powerbook is only a G signal while the PC is N....
 
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The PC is a G card. not totally sure what the Apple is (A/G)

Can you recommend a good USB wireless adapter?
 
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Traumatic said:
The wireless signal is poor compared to my PC laptop (PC = 4 bars, Mac = 1 bar)
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Have you actually measured the bandwidth you're getting with each computer?

1 bar on the Mac compared to 4 bars on the Windows computer may bot be a s big a difference as it seems. In other words...4 bars on the Windows computer does not necessarily mean that it's 4 times faster compared to 1 bar on the Mac.

- Nick
 
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pigoo3 said:
Have you actually measured the bandwidth you're getting with each computer?

1 bar on the Mac compared to 4 bars on the Windows computer may bot be a s big a difference as it seems. In other words...4 bars on the Windows computer does not necessarily mean that it's 4 times faster compared to 1 bar on the Mac.

- Nick
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The Mac's connection is intermittent, whereas the PC's connection is stable.
 

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