How is the MBP's Airport reception?

[Zmmyt]

I was just wondering if the reception of the MBP's Airport got improved over the Powerbook's Airport.

thanks

 

[twoodcc]

i was wondering the same thing

 

[Kingsly]

Its kick A$$. Seriously, I get full bars at my neighbor across the street's house.
Sometimes in the car I "borrow" wifi to quickly check Mac Rumors. 😀

 

[student_trap]

my 12in powerbook and my girlfriends mbp are next to eachother and connected to the same network quite a lot. Mine will have 3 bars and she will have full reception, so the mbp's definitely have better airport reception. The only problem is that her mbp has trouble connecting to a network on startup (since moving to 10.4.6), although this will no doubt be ironed out soon.

 

[MacDonaldsd]

Good to hear my PowerBooks signal is awful im about 1 meter away from my netgear wireless/router/modem and it isnt even full.

Thing that annoys me is my friend brings round his iBook and he gets a full signal any where in my house.

 

[joshwest]

my 12in powerbook and my girlfriends mbp are next to eachother and connected to the same network quite a lot. Mine will have 3 bars and she will have full reception, so the mbp's definitely have better airport reception. The only problem is that her mbp has trouble connecting to a network on startup (since moving to 10.4.6), although this will no doubt be ironed out soon.

I second this, i brought my 12" PB to Manhatten on buisness trip and i purchased a Mac Book Pro when i was their at the SoHO store. And in my Hotel room i picked up about 15 Connections on Mac Book Pro and on the PB only one which was the hotels. MBP's range is great

 

[Diatribe]

It's about as good as my mum's iBook. So pretty awesome.

 

[nylon]

It's unbelievable. I have a few machines in the house running wirelessly. The MBP reception is far superior to all of them.

 

[Zmmyt]

Very good news!

 

[twoodcc]

Very good news!

X2

 

[pdpfilms]

I don't doubt that the reception is in fact better, but it boggles me. How could an antenna tucked in the hinge of the screen pick up wifi better than two, high-mounted screen antennas? Anyone know?

 

[Placeholder]

The only problem is that her mbp has trouble connecting to a network on startup (since moving to 10.4.6), although this will no doubt be ironed out soon.

I'm having similar problems with my networking - even when just waking up from sleep. It's usually easy enough as just re-joining, but sometimes I have to reset the router.
Is this normal (at least for 10.4.6)?

 

[Kingsly]

I don't doubt that the reception is in fact better, but it boggles me. How could an antenna tucked in the hinge of the screen pick up wifi better than two, high-mounted screen antennas? Anyone know?

RDF

 

[Diatribe]

I don't doubt that the reception is in fact better, but it boggles me. How could an antenna tucked in the hinge of the screen pick up wifi better than two, high-mounted screen antennas? Anyone know?

Because the reception area itself is a lot bigger. Those 10 inches in height don't make that much of a difference and the antenna itself is a lot bigger.

 

[nylon]

The only problem is that her mbp has trouble connecting to a network on startup (since moving to 10.4.6), although this will no doubt be ironed out soon.

The airport problem regarding recconection on boot/sleep occurs after you have upgraded to 10.4.6. It corrupts your WEP/WPA password. Follow the directions below to fix the issue.

- Go to System Preferences
- Click Network
- Highlight AirPort and click Configure
- Choose "By default, join: Preferred networks"
- Select your access point and click edit
- Click on "show password"

At this point you should see a crazy corrupt password.. Proof that it is jacked up. Now:

- Exit that window back to the access point list
- Remove your access point with the "-" button
- Launch your keychain and delete your access point keychain entry.
- Reboot
- Go back to the "By default, join:" page and click the "+" this time to add your access point. Enter the correct password, save, reboot, BAM, FIXED!