Airport signal fades and is inconsistant on ibook

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Airport signal fades and is inconsistant on ibook

I have an airport extreme base station with comcast. I have used wireless for several years and have not had any problems..... until the last few weeks.

I use OSX.4 with Extreme base station with a imac and ibook - imac has airport card, ibook has extreme card. I noticed the bands from my airport would show full signal then quickly fade to 2, sometimes 1, sometimes none.

I put in a new extreme card, changed channels, re started everything, and traded in my old RCA cable modem for a modern one. no luck.

I took my ibook to work where everyone uses wireless, and it did the same thing, so I am ruling out interference. My imac works fine. Everything is pointing to my ibook. The only thing I can think of is a bad update.

Could a date, virus, or bad update caused this problem?

Posted on Oct 4, 2005 8:09 AM

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Answer 1

Duane

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Oct 4, 2005 10:28 AM in response to Marcia Milanowski

Marcia, Welcome to the discussion area!

Closely check the photos in KB 108039, Properly attaching the antenna on an AirPort Extreme Card to ensure that the antenna wire is properly installed.

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Answer 2

Oct 4, 2005 11:30 AM in response to Duane

Did that. I also changed airport cards. The antenna is in all the way. Thanks, but I am still looking for an answer. I still have to be about 4 feet from the base station to get a strong signal.

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Answer 3

Oct 7, 2005 12:39 PM in response to Marcia Milanowski

Here's something thats worth a shot.
Make sure that your base station is getting sufficient electricity.

Here's the deal... I had a router that was frequently fading in and out. I couldn't figure out why until I later learned that the AC Power adapter was somehow the wrong one.
It was like 5 volts, and the one that was supposed to be plugged in was 12 volts, and since there wasn't enough energy, the wireless signal would fade.

After i realized this, I went to check out my girlfriend's wireless router, since she was having a similar problem. It turns out that hers was plugged into a power strip, and so it wasn't getting enough energy, so I was able to fix hers by plugging it into its own outlet.

good luck!

David

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