Thank you for the point of clarity regarding the names. However, it is a problem the signal I need to hook onto is the one in the building in which I reside. If the airport function does not work here the computer is useless to me. The MacBookPro was to be the home computer and the Macbook (smaller ...

I have 2 mac laptops, one is a macbook the other a macpro I purchased recently (used but in good condition) from an associate. The macbook's airport function works decidedly differently from the macbook, yet both are about the same age and both have the same operating systems (snow leopard). My ...