Airport reception
What would give me better reception for an ABS/SABS
a slot-loading iMac or a snow ABS?
the thing is I just set up the snow ABS at home to work with the old Rev. A Bondi so it can get online... If i take the ABS up to school again in january we will lose this functionality
but i don't want to sacrifice range at school (heh my family can deal with it if need be 
)
also, a friend of mine shares my wireless connection at school, I don't want to make things worse for him (he lives next door and I put the ABS right by the wall that we share...) the iMac cant get as close to the wall, but i should be close enough...
I'm willing to give up the desk-space for the iMac as I don't use my desk anyway... and I could use the iMac for additional storage up at school... hell I could even plug in a f/w HD and use the iMac to share it on the network...
Is this a good idea, or am I just complicating things...
what kind of speeds can i expect from the iMac if I put eternal storage on it and access it over airport?
a slot-loading iMac or a snow ABS?
the thing is I just set up the snow ABS at home to work with the old Rev. A Bondi so it can get online... If i take the ABS up to school again in january we will lose this functionality
but i don't want to sacrifice range at school (heh my family can deal with it if need be )also, a friend of mine shares my wireless connection at school, I don't want to make things worse for him (he lives next door and I put the ABS right by the wall that we share...) the iMac cant get as close to the wall, but i should be close enough...
I'm willing to give up the desk-space for the iMac as I don't use my desk anyway... and I could use the iMac for additional storage up at school... hell I could even plug in a f/w HD and use the iMac to share it on the network...
Is this a good idea, or am I just complicating things...
what kind of speeds can i expect from the iMac if I put eternal storage on it and access it over airport?
Comments
I am looking to see what benefit (if any) there is for me to use my old iMac as an Airport Software base station so I can leave my (snow) REAL Airport Base Station at home...
I know this would work, but the question is if the iMac would give as much range as the actual base station did...
the base station didn't even give very good range as it was... so i dont want to digress on my range... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
any ideas?
Oh, and moving the base station somewhere else can help the signal strength.
[ 12-31-2002: Message edited by: Ebby ]</p>