Airport connection bad with screen open!? eh?

since almost a week now my powerbook 17" has been playing up - seems that wifi connection which previously was brilliant in my apartment - is now only 3-4 bars when the screen is at a 20-30degree open angle - i.e. barely readable!!!
anything remotely normal and the signal drops to 1 bar or drops out
and it's taking ages to connect to the base station too now
any ideas???
thanks
Jason

turns out it was the placement of the new airport extreme base station.
was ok for a while then went down hill - have moved it to a new location and it's fine - must be some interference somewhere but moving to new house soon anyway so not going to spend time to find out where it might be!
Cheers
Jase

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with my old airport i was able to keep multiple users open and connected at all times.
can anyone please assist me to achieve this again?
thanks,
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GV126c4, Welcome to the discussion area!
Open System Preferences->Network preference pane->AirPort. Click on the Options button. Disable the option to "Disconnect from wireless networks when I log out".

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I have encountered the following really odd problem on three different Aluminum Powerbooks running Tiger (but no difficulty when the same machines ran Panther):
I connect to an Airport base station (it's one of the graphite base stations,
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true under several versions of Tiger.
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"Automatic" is a bit of a misnomer in the configuration settings; what the base station actually does is search for an interfering base station as best it can, but it only does it at boot time.
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PLZ Apple fix this asap!

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The guy at the Apple store said "Now thats a Brick" "I've never seen or heard of one this bad!"
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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With windows 7 when y connected my Iphone Itunes open . With windows 8 I have to open itunes manually ??

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