Weak Airport?

littlebluebox

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I've been having problems with my airport recently. It's been dropping my wifi signal a lot even though I'm well in range of my router. It works normally (and quite well, actually) when my macbook in the same room as my router. How can I fix this?? Even my iPhone gets perfect wifi where my macbook doesn't get any at all! Here are some of my macbook's stats:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.4f12
Serial Number (system): 4h6330h6vmn
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F22964EE
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled


Airport Info
Software Versions:
Menu Extra: 6.2.1 (621.1)
configd plug-in: 6.2.3 (623.1)
System Profiler: 6.0 (600.9)
Network Preference: 6.2.1 (621.1)
AirPort Utility: 5.5.1 (551.19)
IO80211 Family: 3.1.1 (311.1)
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
Firmware Version: Atheros 5424: 2.0.19.10
Locale: FCC
Country Code: US
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165
Status: Connected
Current Network Information:
(Network Name 1):
PHY Mode: 802.11g
BSSID: 90:84:d:d9:d1:15
Channel: 3
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -65 dBm / -96 dBm
Transmit Rate: 54
Other Local Wireless Networks:
(Network Name 2):
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: 9e:84:d:d9:d1:15
Channel: 3
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -65 dBm / -96 dBm


I got all this from the system profiler and it's all jibberish to me. I hope this helps!! Thanks.
 
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Something is wrong. You posting says "Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165" and that means it can do the N network. However you Airport card only reports "Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g". It says nothing About the N network frequency.

Mine says:

"en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme
Firmware Version: Atheros 5416: 2.1.14.5
Locale: FCC
Country Code: US
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165"

So it is time to fix you Airport drivers. Follow the steps in the blog lHow I fixed my dropping wireless Airport connection problem in Snow Leopard and see if any the steps help you.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. It does seem to be a problem with my drivers. I followed that link, but nothing there helped. Are there any other things I can try?
 
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