I got Emma a 12 inch iBook for a birthday/Ordination present. To make it more enjoyable, I set it up with another 512meg of memory, and an Airport Extreme network card, so she can use it anywhere in the house. I also got a refurbed Airport Extreme base station (the one w/out the modem), and connected that to our Cable Modem through our existing home router. With all of this, I loaded Mac Stumbler on the notebook, logged in and got a solid 69 or 70 units (?) at my desk next to the base station.

This also has the benefit of raising the signal at the Airport Express downstairs that feeds the stereo – so now the iTunes feed from my old powerMac is rocksolid downstairs.

I took Emma’s iBook downstairs to the easy chair in the living room and had a solid 55 units. Emma came and sat down in her Ikea chair – with the skylights and all the plants its her favorite seat (got great light during the day and evening and I handed her the iBook and she did some surfing and it was very quick and painless …

Next test – out back by the pond! And that too works great now!
(Course it probably helps that the Airport Extreme is on the back wall of our office, 20+ feet above ground level)

See the notes at this site –
Alan Karl’s Blog – The Digital Tavern
He set up a 2000 vintage G4 Cube as a music server for his 1200+ CD collection using
NetTunes – an under $25 shareware app that lets you starts and run iTunes on one machine from another machine!

Googling found this great site with –
Airport Extreme Dissected – Great disassembly images – and a lot of other related info!

Another source of info is BSR Tech, LLC thats short for Base Station Repairs … they have a

Link to a Airport Base support forum