On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:44 PM, tjdill wrote:
> I recently installed an original airport card in my pismo. At first, > reception was great. > > 1 week later I popped in a new 5400 rpm hard drive. I doubt it's > related, but I thought I would mention it. Well the computer was opened, so yeah, it could be related. > > Currently, it doesn't join the network that it used to in class, and > my range at home is greatly decreased, with signal dropping or > disappearing completely seemingly at random. > > I have removed, inspected, and reinstalled the airport card several > times to no avail. Within 30 feet of the router, it does fine, any > further than that and it's questionable. Sounds like either the antenna connection on the AP card broke or (more likely) it's not fully connected. I've run into antenna connectors on the Airports that were pretty hard to get to pop in all the way. Uhhh...you DID reconnect the antenna, didn't' you? :-) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
