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How is the MBP's Airport reception?
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Its kick A$$. Seriously, I get full bars at my neighbor across the street's house.
Sometimes in the car I "borrow" wifi to quickly check Mac Rumors.
Sometimes in the car I "borrow" wifi to quickly check Mac Rumors.
my 12in powerbook and my girlfriends mbp are next to eachother and connected to the same network quite a lot. Mine will have 3 bars and she will have full reception, so the mbp's definitely have better airport reception. The only problem is that her mbp has trouble connecting to a network on startup (since moving to 10.4.6), although this will no doubt be ironed out soon.
Good to hear my PowerBooks signal is awful im about 1 meter away from my netgear wireless/router/modem and it isnt even full.
Thing that annoys me is my friend brings round his iBook and he gets a full signal any where in my house.
Thing that annoys me is my friend brings round his iBook and he gets a full signal any where in my house.
student_trap said:
I second this, i brought my 12" PB to Manhatten on buisness trip and i purchased a Mac Book Pro when i was their at the SoHO store. And in my Hotel room i picked up about 15 Connections on Mac Book Pro and on the PB only one which was the hotels. MBP's range is great
I don't doubt that the reception is in fact better, but it boggles me. How could an antenna tucked in the hinge of the screen pick up wifi better than two, high-mounted screen antennas? Anyone know?
student_trap said:
I'm having similar problems with my networking - even when just waking up from sleep. It's usually easy enough as just re-joining, but sometimes I have to reset the router.
Is this normal (at least for 10.4.6)?
pdpfilms said:
Because the reception area itself is a lot bigger. Those 10 inches in height don't make that much of a difference and the antenna itself is a lot bigger.
student_trap said:
The airport problem regarding recconection on boot/sleep occurs after you have upgraded to 10.4.6. It corrupts your WEP/WPA password. Follow the directions below to fix the issue.
- Go to System Preferences
- Click Network
- Highlight AirPort and click Configure
- Choose "By default, join: Preferred networks"
- Select your access point and click edit
- Click on "show password"
At this point you should see a crazy corrupt password.. Proof that it is jacked up. Now:
- Exit that window back to the access point list
- Remove your access point with the "-" button
- Launch your keychain and delete your access point keychain entry.
- Reboot
- Go back to the "By default, join:" page and click the "+" this time to add your access point. Enter the correct password, save, reboot, BAM, FIXED!