Thanks, John! But I think my situation might be different; I left out one
critical piece of info that causes me to believe it's a problem with the
Airport Extreme. The macbook pro works just fine (constant bars) everywhere
else -- with my Linksys router at home, in hotels, airports... I might just be
at the edge of its range and there's some other variable at work causing the
signal to come and go. But I was thinking it was better prior to the upgrades.
I also have an Airport Express on the shelf. Perhaps I should try using it to
boost the signal a bit and see what happens.
Milt
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From: Profile <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:14:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MacGroup] wavering Airport Extreme signal
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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