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dshomer
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Hi, I'm new here, but I've been lurking for a little while and I do have one question that maybe y'all can answer...
My iMac G5 17inch has an Airport Extreme Card installed and I'm logging on to my wife's PC-based Linksys router's signal here at home and I usually get around 2 bars of signal strength coming in to the Mac.
The problem is that there's a huge brick chimney stack between my desktop iMac and her Linksys router and, no, I can't move either the iMac or the router, either. So, I was wondering if I can't crack open the iMac and plug a really, really long antenna wire into the Airport Extreme Card that's in there and run it along the baseboard into the next room where it would be in a line-of-sight to the router.
So, my question is... is this a viable answer to the problem? In other words, will simply adding more antenna wire to the Airport Extreme Card increase and improve the signal or is there more to it than that? And, if the answer to that is yes, then what kind of wire and with what kind of plug will it need? Is the existing antenna inside the iMac a single wire or a pair and what kind of connector does it have? Should I connect a new, longer antenna directly to the card or attach it to the end of the existing antenna that's already in there?
Or, rather than doing this the home-made way, does anyone make a commercial antenna extender for the iMac that I can buy somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
Durer
My iMac G5 17inch has an Airport Extreme Card installed and I'm logging on to my wife's PC-based Linksys router's signal here at home and I usually get around 2 bars of signal strength coming in to the Mac.
The problem is that there's a huge brick chimney stack between my desktop iMac and her Linksys router and, no, I can't move either the iMac or the router, either. So, I was wondering if I can't crack open the iMac and plug a really, really long antenna wire into the Airport Extreme Card that's in there and run it along the baseboard into the next room where it would be in a line-of-sight to the router.
So, my question is... is this a viable answer to the problem? In other words, will simply adding more antenna wire to the Airport Extreme Card increase and improve the signal or is there more to it than that? And, if the answer to that is yes, then what kind of wire and with what kind of plug will it need? Is the existing antenna inside the iMac a single wire or a pair and what kind of connector does it have? Should I connect a new, longer antenna directly to the card or attach it to the end of the existing antenna that's already in there?
Or, rather than doing this the home-made way, does anyone make a commercial antenna extender for the iMac that I can buy somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
Durer