i believe the airport extreme built-in antenna is designed in a way that results in excellent signal transmission UPWARDS but not so good DOWNWARDS. can you put the extreme on the first floor?
ken On Sep 19, 4:48 am, QuoVadis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I've recently acquired an Airport card to fit inside my G4 QS (the > 2002 model). It works fine, meaning it connects to the Extreme base > station and gets me on the internet. > > The problem is the reception: I have my Airport Extreme base station > set up on the second of 3 floors. My eMac on the third floor has full > reception (meaning all the bars on the Airport-icon in the taskbar are > lit) while the G4 has only one or two bars lit (mostly two). > Furthermore, network transfers are slow (maximum download speed is > around 300k/s and copying 500MB takes about half an hour). I realize > that the card is in fact an 11mBit card, but it should (theoretically) > reach close to 1.1 MB/s. > > I've checked the antenna so far, which is connected properly. Only > thing I can try is to see if my G4 GE has the same problem when I swap > the Airport card. Maybe the antenna has fractured internally (I hope > not). > > The G4 is placed adjecent to an amplifier, CD player, AM/FM tuner and > turntable. A LCD TV is also closeby (being the monitor for the G4) as > is a 1/4" tape recorder. Just mentioning it, because it's a lot of > steel/aluminium and electriciy to interfere with the signal. > > Does anyone have a suggestion? > > Greetings, > > Eelco. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list
