The AirPort nightmare

問題

I ha no wireless internet in my MacBook for like 3 years, since I noticed it was gone I thought it was the airport card due to overheating, I have a windows partition and 2 virtual machines, I put my MacBook through a lot of work. In the end, yes the card was faulty, but the cable was too, however I did not notice this until I noticed the WiFi was on and off very frecuent. And since it was way expensive buying a new laptop and the Mac OS exprerience it’s really smooth, I only use Linux and Windows for work pourposes.

修理

It was fast, the acces was easy, however the screws holding the bracket for the airport module were super tighten, sadly I had to break the bracket and make a new one, fortunate I have acces to numerous CNC machines, when I replaced the cable I noticed that the conector in the motherboard for the airport was heavily damaged due to overheating, I had to resolder certain pins and use some dialectric glue to make it stronger.

アドバイス

It was a relief seeing again the wifi icon in the interface of every OS running on my MacBook, it took me 3 years, 3 long years, but it’s good, this laptop has seen a lot of work and it will continue to see as there is 2 more years of University to come.