Ok, I'm having trouble connecting to the wireless network at my university. My 12" G4 ibook seems to grab onto the least suitable network router in the area.
At home I'm getting great signal strength and speed, but at school although the signal strength is good my speeds are intolerably slow. People with the newer Intel Macs don't seem to have the same issue, but I'm far from alone with the speed issue.
To resolve things my xp using friends pop open their network window thingie and select a better access point, problem solved.
The trouble is that I don't seem to be able to do the same thing with my Mac. I can select a different network based on SSID, but the campus network routers all broadcast the same name. I figure my machine is just picking the router with the strongest signal rather than hopping routers to find the fastest transfer speeds.
Is there anything I can do to manually select specific router from a pool of them when they share the same name?
At home I'm getting great signal strength and speed, but at school although the signal strength is good my speeds are intolerably slow. People with the newer Intel Macs don't seem to have the same issue, but I'm far from alone with the speed issue.
To resolve things my xp using friends pop open their network window thingie and select a better access point, problem solved.
The trouble is that I don't seem to be able to do the same thing with my Mac. I can select a different network based on SSID, but the campus network routers all broadcast the same name. I figure my machine is just picking the router with the strongest signal rather than hopping routers to find the fastest transfer speeds.
Is there anything I can do to manually select specific router from a pool of them when they share the same name?
