Yesterday I picked up a D-Link wireless 802.11b router for 40 dollars after rebates. I've never used wireless with my two year old tiBook.
It works well if the tiBook is within a few feet of the router. If I sit at my dining room table, 35 feet away and in clear visual line of sight of the router, the connection barely works. Simple web pages take a long time to open, and those with pictures often time out before the page is fully rendered. I heard the tiBook was bad, but this is unacceptable.
The tiBook is also unusable 20 feet and one wall away in an adjacent room to the router.
This reflects my experience (TiBook 800). I have a Buffalo wireless base station. I had to experiment with the base station location - it is now hanging from the ceiling in my closet!
In some rooms - OK. In other I have to be in just the right spot and angle the PB just so. Ryan Coleman's comments seem correct. My range out of doors is very poor compare with figures I've see from other model PBs.
-- With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
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