Hi,
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.
The tiBook is also unusable 20 feet and one wall away in an adjacent room to the router.
I have a SMC router, very similar to your router, and a rev A TiBook (which are the worst for reception) and I get full 5 bars on my back deck, about 40ish feet from my router, diagonally across my house.
I'd suggest you reseat the antenna into the airport card then press around the battery compartment and bottom of the TiBook to make sure the antenna is properly seated into the 2 'windows' in the TiBook frame.
See this url among others for more info: h t t p ://216.118.105.101/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=1095&forum=10&14
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Relevant part follows, other good info at the URL.
UPDATE: following a call to Apple
Making this quick, I just got off the phone with Apple tech support. I called to ask if there's anything I can do to improve my Ti's Airport range. After some questions about distance and interference like microwaves, cordless phones, and walls, the tech told me to shut down my powerbook and flip it over.
I was next instructed to eject the battery and look at the right side wall of the battery compartment where I was supposed to find an approximately 5 cm long plastic strip. (My particular powerbook doesn't have this visible -- instead, there is a plate with the serial number, etc...) Still, he told me to firmly press the side wall of the powerbook against the frame, just slowly and firmly pressing along its length several times for about 10 seconds. Next, he told me to replace the battery and start her back up.
I can't believe it, but my Airport's range is now like my iBook's!! I never could have done this from out here by the pool before, but here I am.
The reason for this as he explained it is, where I was told to press is where the antenna runs alongside the framework of the Powerbook. Sometimes it isn't situated just right, or gets out of whack from having been shipped or something. Pressing it puts it back into proper contact with whatever needs to be touching. Now it works like a dream!
Maybe this will work for you, too, Kosmo.
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