Snow Airport and G5 Losing contact.
The have been working well. No big changes in environment. But the G5 can't see the Airport Base Station v4.0.9 unless I haul the G5 out of the closet and put it on a table.
tried cleaning off the airport card contacts in the G5.
The airport seems to work fine with my laptop.
Anyone with similar experiences and solutions? External antenna for the G5? Which one?
The Snow Airport is mounted on a wall with the sockets pointed up. Does anyone know the radiation pattern? Would orienting it differently solve the problem?
Thanks,
Ty Ford
Have a 2 GHz DP G5 equipped with an Airport Extreme wireless card (802.11b/g) and a stubby airport antenna hanging out the back -- used to have signal strength issues with older snow base station (802.11b only), as well as complete drop outs, causing my cable modem connection to disappear for 30 seconds at a time, every now and again. Even tried an external antenna on the old snow base station unit -- did not help much.
Bought an Airport Extreme base station, and signal strength on DP G5 stays strong and no more dropping of cable modem connection. Don't need an external antenna for Airport Extreme base station, either -- internal antenna works fine.
I have the DP G5 in the basement -- Airport Extreme is one floor up (in the same location where older snow airport base unit used to sit), and over to the other side of the house from the G5 location -- 50-60 ft distance.
Your solution may be to upgrade your wireless base station unit.
2.0 GHz DP G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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