Re: Weird wireless problems
On 13 Sep, this message from Nirmal Govind echoed through cyberspace:
> Hi.. I'm using an Apple Airport card on my ibook (800Mhz, Nov 2002)..
> I have a Netgear router at home that is connected to a cable modem..
> I'm having a weird problem where the signal strength randomly goes
> down to 0% from around 40%... the only solution I've been able to
> find is this - if I close the lid and then open it up again, the
> signal strength returns to around 40%..
I've got a similar problem on my TiBook. When the signal isn't very
strong, I get dropouts all the time. Like, two meters from the base it's
OK all the time, but when I'm one floor below, it changes between 'still
OK' and below noise... I'm not entirely sure it is not an electrical
problem with the internal Airport/antenna cabling.
Although, the problems started after a firmware upgrade quite some time
ago (6 month?), and never stopped since (although the firmware has been
further upgraded since...).
> doing ifdown eth1 and ifup
> eth1 (w/o closing the lid) doesn't help.. I thought this may have
> something to do with the airport card but it turns out that this
> problem doesn't exist if I boot up in OSX directly
IIRC, I have the same problem in OS X. But I'd need to re-check.
Cheers
Michel
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