Yep, antenna firmly seated. Today it has been better. Signal has been stronger in areas where it was weak or nonexistent. It still drops randomly though.
On Sep 30, 2:16 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
