AIRPORT LOSING SIGNAL RANGE- HELP!!!

I have a 2006-2007 standard macbook.
Running mac osx 10.4.11 with
1.83 ghz
2gb ram (upgraded)
120 gb harddrive (upgraded)
Over the past month or so my airport has not been working properly. It has been having trouble finding my home network (at both homes) unless I get increasingly closer to the router. At first I could get internet downstairs, then I had to come upstairs to my room, now I have to be sitting next to the router in order for Airport to connect to my network and even then the signal isn't at full bars. Can anyone help me? I've tried deleting my preferred network and adding it again but that hasn't helped. I'm hoping if I upgrade to leopard that the new airport might work better but after 3 years I don't know why mine would all of the sudden stop working. HELP!!

I am having the same problem. I went to the Apple store by my house and they said it might have something to do with the Operating System. They Recommended a Archive and Install and since I still have my Leopard disk I think i am going to try it out some time on Monday. To be dead honest with you, I am pretty sure this is not going to fix it, and I think I am going to have to buy a new Airport card, which totally *****.....

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Hi,
I'm currently still having problems with my airport disconnecting and losing signal. This is really driving me nuts, is there any solution to this? As it was working fine till i updated it.
If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

I had the same problem when updating to 10.5.6, i fixed it with a clean install. Before you do that you can try to isolate the problem further with these steps:
- What was that last thing you did before this problem started?
- Do you have the same problem no matter what network/type of router you try connecting to?
Just to make sure its not hardware, boot to your Leopard install disk and try connecting to the network from the airport pane. If you have the same problem when booted to the install disk its pointing towards a hardware issue. I would head for the nearest Apple store and make them fix it.
If you don´t have the same problem when booted to the install disk this might be cause by a software problem.
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- In System Preferences>Network, make sure the service order is set so that Airport is on top
- Is there any devices that can cause interference? cordless phones, microwaves and so on.
- Try changing channels on your router.
- Reset your router and set it up again. If your using a Airport base station go to Manual Set up and choose File from the menu bar, click Save a Copy as. This will allow you to export the base station settings, if you need to get this settings back you can simply import them.
- Rename /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and restart your machine. This will remove any network settings you have made on your machine
- Create new network settings
If your not able to solve or isolate your problem with these steps i would suggest you post the Console logs here as there are a lot of the ppl on the forum that prbly can help you more after reading those.
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If, like a lot of others on this forum, are having problems with losing their airport signal, it is most likely not your airport, but the latest Airport upgrade, 4.2. Please see this previous discussion:
http://discusssearch.info.apple.com/webx?14@@.68b4598e/1
I followed this link and downgraded to 4.1 from 4.2 per Christian Bonato and everything seems to be holding, at least so far. I hope someone at Apple is aware of this and working on a fix. It knocked out 3 of my Macs!

Since I was the original poster and did put up another post that this fix seemed only to work about a day here is my update:
I have a mixed setup: Clamshell iBook with airport card, Tibook with airport card, and iMac G5 with extreme card.
All worked fine together through a snow airport, until mid-August about the time of the 10.4.2 update and the Airport 4.2 update.
Slowly they quit seeing the network or I had to be almost on top of the base station to get it to work. The iMac is sitting almost next to the base station so it had no problem. If I restarted the base station it would work for a few minutes to an hour.
Thinking my snow unit had had it I bought a Netgear G type unit. Hooked it up and wham everything worked great, at least for about 4 days, then the same deal. laptops would see the base station but when I tried to log on it said there was an error and would not allow the log on. the iMac would spaz out sometimes and just not see the base station.
I tried a lot of ideas from the discussion groups and on my own. I tried the 4.1 down grade and it worked for about a day. Since the iMac G5 displayed somewhat different messages than the laptops I just turned its Airport card off and bingo the laptops were happy again and no problems. Turn on the iMac card and within 2 hours the troubles reappear.
I now have my iMac hard wired to the router with its airport card turned off, and all is well for over 3 weeks now. I still do not understand the problem but it can be traced to the update, either the Airport 4.2 or the 10.4.2 update. I also tried reinstalling the 10.4.2 combo update on the iMac and that didn't fix anything.
From what I can tell from my setup is: a mix of B and G cards seems to create the problem and one of the two updates from mid-August set it off. It also does not seem to be a base station make or model problem, it is an equal opportunity issue.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4262
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