Milt,
I have two Airport Extremes and six Airport Expresses tied to the
Extremes. I also updated to the latest firmware and noticed no change
in signal strength anywhere in fact it stopped a problem I was having
with the DSL Extreme each night, the upgrade stopped the problem.
I also experienced what you are with my last MacBook. I took it to
the Apple store and had a new airport card installed and it did no
good so on the next trip they realized there was something wrong with
the machine and since it had previous trips for repair and as I had
Apple Care they offered to trade up to a new one.
I am sure this is only because of the machine being sent off on three
different occasions and now the 4th problem but what put it over the
top was exactly what you are describing. It was close to Christmas
and I have completely organized our Christmas decorations with photo's
taken all over the home where the decorations are to be placed. My
wife was using the laptop in each room and it would go from full bars
to nothing several times in a short period of time. I was constantly
having to get out of iPhoto and back in, turning Airport off and back
on, often rebooting to find full strength and then shortly being
disconnected.
The new machine has full bars everywhere so it was some type problem
with the MacBook.
John
On May 13, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Milton Tyree wrote:
Last year, I set-up an Airport Extreme network in my parent's home
-- where I use occasionally my MBP. I work on the other end of the
house from the router, but nonetheless I used to get a great signal
-- typically all of the bars on the cone. However, lately the signal
has been erratic. Sometimes I have all bars, but then rapidly
changing to the one little dot at the bottom of the cone (which can
make for VERY slow going depending on what I'm doing).
I'm thinking this change coincides the latest Airport software
update AND the firmware update for the Airport Extreme. I reverted
to the former firmware, and this seemed to help a bit.
Ideas?
Many thanks,
Milt
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