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How To Add An External Antenna To AirPort Base Station
An anonymous reader writes "I came across this article yesterday on how to add an external antenna to an airport base station 2.0 in order to extend its range. Takes about 20-30 mins to complete and with the instructions is very easy."
By Airport 2.0, are you referring to the Airport Extreme base station?
Vonal Declosion
Here's a tutorial to get external antenna for the first generation Airport Base station:o rt.html
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Airp
http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/ExtendedExtreme/ Also tells you the difference between the modem version and the regular version of the airport extreme -joe
There are two models of the airport extreme base station, and the other model ships with an antenna port. Of course if you want to save money and invalidate your warranty, then thats your business.
Although this is obviously a troll, I'd like to point out that Dell's warranty is no different.
Yeah. dell doesn't offer a warranty on morons attacking Apple hardware either.
The Dr. Bott antenna (which you just plug in and reboot and it works) isn't much more than the one they recommend.
Alex.
Wiping your backside - a howto with easy to follow diagrams.
I mean - did this really need the photostory treatment?
All things in moderation; including moderation
That this guy doesn't know how to spell. You can't drill a whole in anything. You drill a hole.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
I already had an article I wrote regarding pigtailing the Airport on Slashdot back in April, so why the same story? I notice that there's a bit of repition here, there was another story published on /. recently that was also covered in the same article I wrote.
I'm not trying to say I did it first here and I appreciate that others may have different or better information, but to be honest, I can't see that this article improves over what I wrote before. My article covers pigtailing the airport and the use of a number of different types of home made antennae with the base station, including range tests as well as disecting both the Aiport and Airport Extreme.
Perhaps the editors should check a little harder about previous postings when weighing up whether to publish new ones?
today you spent 5 hours, its only 10:47am when you posted this, perhaps sleep depravation of putting in airport cards at 5:47 am is what happened?
"i spent 5 hours installing airport cards and it still takes 20 minutes to transfer a 17 meg file!"
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Except you're thinking of an iBook, and have obviously never seen either a tiBook or this troll before.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
...he's only 16 after all.
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What kind of computer guy emphasizes going INSIDE THE MACHINE.
That's like an plumber who says, "The,n I had to go UNDER THE SINK."
Or an auto mechanic that says, "Then Ford told me I had to go UNDER THE HOOD."
You obviously ignored two important things:
1.) RTFM - Apple has excellent documentation for their hardware, even if it is quite old...
2.) If you have to use force (or even a file) then for the love of god STOP IT and leave it to someone who knows how to do it
There ain't a whole lot left when I'm done.
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The problem is, Apple used to have lots of confusing model numbers.
Which is better, a 5400, a 6300, a 7200, or an 8100? Normal people couldn't figure that mess out. The only clear rule seemed to be that three-digit model numbers were m68k and 4-digit model numbers were PowerPC.
Then they introduced the PowerMac G3, and ditched model numbers entirely. This was around the time Apple acquired NeXT and Steve Jobs; I don't recall whether the naming of the G3 systems was before Jobs' arrival or not. In any case, under Jobs' reign, they're trying to keep things simple by using only the product names and (for PowerMacs and PowerBooks) the processor generation, e.g. iMac and PowerBook G4.
Of course there have been many revisions of each product over the years, and it is necessary to distinguish between models. Sometimes internal development code-names leak to the public and are widely used, such as "Yikes" and "Sawtooth" which refer to the motherboards used in the first and second versions of the PowerMac G4. Apple's official documented names for these systems are "PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics)" and "PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)" and the way Apple recommends you tell them apart is that the headphone and microphone jacks are oriented horizontally on one, and vertically on the other.
There have been eight different models all named simply "iMac". They are very different machines - early models took PC66 SO-DIMMs, later models took standard PC-100 DIMMs, and the latest models have G4 processors and LCD displays.
Never mind that there have been several different processors, from both Motorola and IBM, that Apple calls simply "G3" or "G4". My eMac (original 700MHz model) apparently has a PowerPC 7450, according to the "hostinfo" command (Apple System Profiler doesn't even show it).
Apple hardware docs
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
This is the same guy who demolishes his friend's Tibook while installing an airport card, and copies 17 Mb files on his freelance gig.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
If anyone needs to be told, "MOVE!", it's you, Computer Guy.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
you are such a troll.
I brought my ibook and airport seperate and I had it install in the machine running in 5 minutes.
I assume you are like a regular "guy" and didn't read the manual. If you did then it tells you to take out the aerial cable BEFORE you install the card. blaming the machine for your lack of knowledge is low.
people who don't understand something general go back to what they are familiar with, it's like when people found out the world was round they refuse to believe it
it's it a fluke that apple won all sorts of design awards and accolades and you had to FILE and SNIP parts out?? you are obviously a troll
-joe
How to do absolutely anything to a Mac
- Back up your hard drive.
- Repair permissions.
- Zap the PRAM.
- Rebuild your desktop.
- Run Conflict Catcher, Norton Disk Doctor and DiskWarrior.
- Launch Terminal.
- Close Terminal.
- Reboot in single-user mode.
- Reinstall the previous version of the operating system, using the archive feature.
- Reboot in OS 9, and run ResEdit.
- Reseat the RAM board.
- Reset the PMU.
- Boot from the system disk.
And you're done!Modifying an airport station to use an antenna is illegal under the DMCA. I taught my son a lesson by destroying his laptop and airport station. The lesson is that if you work hard and save your money to buy something, once you break the law with it, it will be taken away. By the time he saves enough to buy another laptop (which will be around two years based on his after school pay check) he will have learned that he was doing something bad and wont do it again. It's better that I caught him than the police or an FBI DMCA sting operation. Not only would they have taken his laptop and airport station, but they could have taken him as well, or taken his rights to use any computer away. In any event, no one here has anymore right to judge my parenting skills than I do. I think I speak for the majority of Mac users by saying that we don't appreciate sarcasm and most of all being talked down to. good day.
What part of "more is better" couldn't "normal people" understand?
Goody for you. You bought an iBook and an airport card. The iBook is substantially easier to install an airport card in. You don't need to unscrew torx screws to get to the airport slot for one, as you do on the TiBook.
And now the site is Slash-fudged.
Thanks for nothing you ass-blasting sons of bitches. I'd kill you all for a plug nickel
Good god. TiBook. Airport. Under the keyboard.
What part can't you understand?
yeah I think this is a troll too but just for the record in case it's not... some g4s really were louder than fsck and Apple replaced fans and power supplies after issuing a (kinda) recall. They only were charging $20 for shipping the new power supply and fan. So if there's any truth to the story, a quick search through the apple website should help you solve your problem for $20, and probably without having apple check first whether you moronically voided your warranty by installing random parts into the computer.
Out of curiosity, how did your friend manage to change sexes between your two almost duplicate posts?
A tiBook is a Titanium PowerBook G4. An alBook, therefore, is an Aluminum PowerBook G4.
BTW, that was the cluestick. Use it wisely.
Its webmaster has put together a tutorial for every base station, including repairing the marginal power supply for the Graphite base station, how to extend the range of Graphite, Snow, or Extreme base station, etc. For you X-file fans, he even performed a Airport Extreme Dissection that goes much further than anything I have seen on the net.
So you're saying I should beat you with the cluestick, since my point as that neither the tiBook or the alBook allow you to install an airport card under the keyboard, unlike the iBook?
idiot.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
I had thought that the person you were replying to didn't know WHAT a TiBook was (and therefore, probably what an AlBook is too).