[DM-MUG] Question ref Airport

[jim Lagnese]

Apple definitely could have done a better job with antenna placement.

> From: Karl Hehr <khehr@iastate.edu>
> Reply-To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:10:40 -0600
> To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Question ref Airport
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> The external stuff will help greatly, your range is cut down because of
> your internal antenna being by the keyboard, so an external would
> increase range by quite a bit.
> --Karl
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> On Mar 11, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
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>> Now I am confused...but only a bit.=A0 At
>> http://www.devdepot.com/wireless.html there are a number of options
>> which would be cheaper than going Extreme...right now I do have my
>> PCCard slot holding something so would rather not fill it, but I could
>> easily enough.=A0 The external antenna may be an answer.=A0 Will the
>> external cards or antennas help enough with a Snow Airport or are we
>> really looking at a whole new setup (gosh, maybe i have to buy a new
>> Ti (Al?) Book???
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>> Actually, there is a company that makes and sells an external antenna
>> for the TiBook. It uses your Airport card. Even so, the base station
>> is a limiting factor as well. Also, any 802.11g base station should be
>> backward compatible with you Airport card. Another choice is that
>> Dlink makes an external USB wireless card, and this will keep your PC
>> Card slot free.
>> Jim
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>> James D. Lagnese
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>>>>> I have Panther on all machines, the Snow Airport and a regular
>>>>> Airport Card in my TiBook (667mhz) and use Airport alot...with
>>>>> spring/summer coming, I'm like you and want to sit outside when I'm
>>>>> on the web but the Snow and TiBook don't have much distance. =A0As I
>>>>> see it, there are the following options (other than buying a new
>>>>> TiBook, which right now I don't want to do): =A0=A0get one of those
>>>>> antenna things that DevDepot sells, or get Airport Extreme base
>>>>> station to replace Snow. =A0But if I do the latter, then I probably
>>>>> need an extreme card? =A0Any suggestions?
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>>>> Get a PCMCIA (sp?) Wireless card so the antenna is on the outside of
>>>> the case, this will increase your range dramatically and it is a
>>>> cheaper solution than an extreme base station, also you can't, as
>>>> for as I know put an extreme card in a TiBook. Hope this helps
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>>>> Karl H. Hehr
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