No, age isn’t the problem, but there’s no sense in comparing old to new.
As for your G5 - is it completely stock including an *Apple* Airport card? Which card is it? Did you check to make sure it wasn’t one of the defective Airport cards they recalled a few years back?
It better not be, the Apple store installed the Airport Extreme Card yesterday.
I’m sure it isn’t the card, its the genius engineers who decided that it should be fine to enclose a 2.4 ghz antenna inside 50 lbs of aircraft aluminum. I have to wonder if they EVER tested the thing.
The SECOND I opened the side of the case, PING! WiFi connected.
Obviously style prevailed over substance, and the fact that the card alone cost 85 bucks chaps my arse. Another 10 bucks and I could’ve just bought a roll of Cat 5 cable and connected at 100 mb/s. Sheesh, Wireless is supposed to be easy, this is NOT endearing at all.