My son’s aging Powerbook G4 (an original TiBook) has been having problems with wifi connectivity over the past several months. He gets only an intermittent signal from our Airport Express. I’ve isolated the problem to his machine—other laptops in the same place at the same time have no connectivity problems.
I’ve opened the machine and reseated the Airport card, and checked the antenna cable—I don’t see any obvious cable problems, or oxidation, but there may well be problems with the cables going from the card up into the antennas in the screen.
I really don’t want to put a lot of money into this machine, so I’m trying to figure out how to easily put a wired connection in his room. What’s the easiest, cheapest way to do that? It seems like there must be something that will pick up the wifi signal from our network and send it over an ethernet cable to his computer—but I don’t know what they’d be called, and thus can’t search for them effectively.
(Oh…and merry christmas to all of you, especially those who, like me, serve as family sysadmin over the holidays!)
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