IMac fast, PowerBook SLOOOOOOW!

Lately, my powerbook's airport connection is either on and off, or slower than dialup, while my iMac G5, which is using the same airport network, keeps it's coonection fine and internet speed is fine. I have an Airport Extreme station connected to my Comcast Internet cable, with an additional Airport Express station in the living room that is supposedly extending the range of the Airport Extreme station. Besides the PowerBook hanging and hanging, the signal strength is all over the place, even though I am feet from the Airport Express station in the living room. I also get that message that the PB is having trouble connecting to the Airport network, and often have to click "try again" several times before it connects. I sometimes also get a message under System Preferences Network that the Airport station has a static IP address????? I have never changed it from "Using DHCP server".
Thanks for your help!

This is the same problem it seems alot of us in this forum are having. Bad airport signals that get dropped or disappear consistently. My PB will connect and then start to drop in a matter of seconds and then finally disappear for a while before doing it all over again. It's so frustrating.
Some people have had luck rebooting their APEX or reinstalling older firmware, you might want to try that. I think it's a bigger problem that we need fixed soon. If anyone can shed light on this problem, please clue us in!

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Neither is advised by me.
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That means your firewire drive, and camera/deck share a single firewire bus, which has presented issues with users.
The PB is a slightly better choice because it is a 15-inch which means it has PC Card slot to add a Cardbus firewire card to create a second firewire bus.
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