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Andreas
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I recently set up a wireless network in my house. The imac downstairs is the base machine, and one Titanium 1Ghz and one Aluminum 1.25 Ghz powerbook are accessing using their built in airport cards.
I downloaded an application that lets me view the detailed signal strength in real time, and with that checked the performance of the two powerbooks. The aluminum one is fine, even in the farthest corner of the house gives reliable signal strength.
The Ti on the other hand, gives good signal strength, but exhibits some wierd behavior. In the farthest corner of the house, the strength will be about 50-60%, but as soon as you try to send or recieve alot of data, like download a 1MB file, the signal cuts off to zero, stays at zero for about 5 seconds, then comes back to 50%, in a perfect square wave. This happens repeatedly, with the exact same 5 sec square wave, but only when data is being tranferred!
It is not the wireless router I dont think, because the other powerbook works fine. Can anyone help?? I wanted to get an external antena, but this does not sound like a signal strength issue.
Thanks,
Andreas
I downloaded an application that lets me view the detailed signal strength in real time, and with that checked the performance of the two powerbooks. The aluminum one is fine, even in the farthest corner of the house gives reliable signal strength.
The Ti on the other hand, gives good signal strength, but exhibits some wierd behavior. In the farthest corner of the house, the strength will be about 50-60%, but as soon as you try to send or recieve alot of data, like download a 1MB file, the signal cuts off to zero, stays at zero for about 5 seconds, then comes back to 50%, in a perfect square wave. This happens repeatedly, with the exact same 5 sec square wave, but only when data is being tranferred!
It is not the wireless router I dont think, because the other powerbook works fine. Can anyone help?? I wanted to get an external antena, but this does not sound like a signal strength issue.
Thanks,
Andreas