Airport reception poor after hard drive replacement and adding RAM

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iBook G4 12" 800 MHz-1.2 GHz

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Seb @seb84042

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Airport reception poor after hard drive replacement and adding RAM

Hi

I replaced the hard drive on my old iBook G4 and replaced a 512 RAM with a 1 GB SO-DIMM.

It seems to work. Before I did that I cloned the drive. It runs with OS 10.5.

After booting it recognised my WLAN, but did not accept the password. I experimented with that but it was not the problem. Reception is very low. When I put the iBook next to the WLAN router, it works. When I use the much closer Time Capsule with WLAN switched on, it works.

So: WLAN works, but with much poorer reception. The router is unchanged, my Macbook Pro works without any problems.

Any ideas? Changing the antenna seems to be a bit of an overkill:

iBook G4 12" 800 MHz-1.2 GHz Inverter/AirPort Cables Replacement

Cheers.

Seb.

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jtsantos7 @jtsantos7 Rep: 71 4 2 · Answer 1 · 2011-03-12T20:10:54-07:00

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I had the same issue. I found this article from Apple, which showed me that I hadn't pushed in the antenna connection all the way. Hopefully it helps you.

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Seb @seb84042 Rep: 1 1 2 · Answer 2 · 2011-03-13T23:16:16-07:00

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That was it! Amazing! Thank you.

I had to push really hard to get it all the way in.

Thanks.

Seb.

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