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. <\/p>\n
\nThis 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.\n<\/p>\n
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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 …\n<\/p>\n
\nNext test – out back by the pond! And that too works great now!
\n(Course it probably helps that the Airport Extreme is on the back wall of our office, 20+ feet above ground level)\n<\/p>\n
See the notes at this site – Googling found this great site with – Another source of info is BSR Tech, LLC<\/a> thats short for Base Station Repairs … they have a 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. … Continue reading
\nAlan Karl’s Blog – The Digital Tavern<\/a>
\nHe set up a 2000 vintage G4 Cube as a music server for his 1200+ CD collection using
\nNetTunes<\/a> – an under $25 shareware app that lets you starts and run iTunes on one machine from another machine!\n<\/p>\n
\nAirport Extreme Dissected<\/a> – Great disassembly images – and a lot of other related info!\n<\/p>\n
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\nLink to a Airport Base support forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"