Article:		Life After AirPort -- New Wireless Base Stations
Subject:		airport card
Date:		2001-08-11 21:01:44
From:		ted!
I've been using an SMC Barricade since Life After Airport Part I. (I posted a comment to that article, in fact) Since then, I've returned my internal airport card to Fry's, since its range with my TiBook was so pathetic. I'm now using an Orinoco WaveLan Gold card under OS X with the open source drivers presently being developed by Rob McKeever and others (yay!). It's not feature complete yet, and it's less convenient to have to us a PC Card, but for me, the performance increase makes it worthwhile. (Btw, the standard airport drivers under OS 9 support the WaveLan card) -ted

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  2001-08-12 11:51:01  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  I have also noticed that there are places where the TiBook doesn't perform as well with respect to wireless range as my older PowerBook G3. Usually changing the orientation of the machine helps, but there are a few places where not even that has helped me.
  
  Interestingly enough, there are places in my house where the TiBook performs better than external cards or my PBG3. I have no reasonable explanation for this. The only thing that I can note is that the Barricade is mounted in a vertical orientation upstairs from the rest of my home and that may be setting up a favoriable environment for the TiBook's built in antenna.
  
  Thanks for the comments!