On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
> > Hi > > Why oh why once I have written a message do I suddenly find the > answer. I > just checked System Profiler and under the Airport Card section it > lists > the type of card that is in your machine. > > So my friends Pismo which originally only supported Airport, now has > a card > in the side which runs and is detected by the Mac as an Airport > Extreme and > so technically will run at Airport Extreme speeds. > > Is there anyway to test this? I know surfing or downloading will be > any > different, but file transfers across the network should be different > since > both machines will have an 11g card in it. > I can confirm that the G cards actually run as Extreme cards. Thoroughput is a lot faster than the original Airport card. I say this because my gf's Pismo's wireless speed is much faster with her Belkin card than with the original Airport card, so she uses the Belkin card instead. Did you get my email about the Cisco 340/350 series cards being strictly .11b cards nd not supporting WPA? Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
