Airport extreme not functioning extremely well! Need advice on boosting it
I live in an adobe house. My Powerbook G4 alum 15" loses the airport extreme base station signal as soon as I am out of the same room with it and my PowerPC G4 in the next room cannot pick up the signal. My new little G5 macBook gets the best range-- up to 100 feet away! Do I need a WDS network -- if so, what is it and how do I start to build and piece one together?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454
Here is the set-up
Cheers Don
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