Ti Books always have and always will have terrible wireless reception. The poor reception has to do with the books titanium shell. The only way to get decent reception is to use a wireless card that plugs into the computers PC Card/ CardBus slot and has an external antennae. The only other way to improve the reception is to remove the titanium shell and cover it with something else.
Or you can run a coax cable from the WiFi card out to an external antennae. You can route the cable non destructively out through the PCMCIA slot, or destructively through one of the existing slot antenna openings. The you have to fasten the antenna to the display so it won't flop around, and remove it when you pack the computer.
I see the tiBook wireless reception an example of round mouse syndrome at Apple. The powers thought that a round mouse would be way cool, forgetting that the hand on round mouse does not know which way the mouse is oriented. Someone at Apple thought the idea of an all metal PowerBook case was so cool that one of the primary advantages, wireless connectivity, was sacrificed.
I'd rather have bit of plastic in my tiBook case with a decent WiFi antenna behind it.
And I'd rather have a mouse that my hand knows which way it's oriented without having to finger for the connection cord.
We expect great things from Apple and they usually deliver, but when they miss they really miss.
Paul
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