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likemyorbs

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Jul 20, 2008
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my 8 year old imac and my macbook are in the same room. the airport on my imac is way better than on the macbook and torrents download much faster, its always on 5 bars. on my macbook, my connection constantly drops to zero and will go back to 5 bars if i click the airport icon and refresh it. i read another post on here about someone who's macbook does that during WoW playing, but its not the wow playing that does it, it seems like anytime you use a lot of bandwidth on the macbook the airport flakes out. anyone else have this problem? whats the deal? it just kills me that an 8 year old computer is getting better wifi reception than a new one in the same room...
 
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