on 02/07/04 00:21, Mark Rath, LSW, Coordinator at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know very little about airport but I am slowly learning - I have a second > generation iBook (indigo, firewire) and want to put an aiport card in it. I > know I can't use airport extreme - what are my other options? Also I need an > aiport base station in my home where all I have is dial up. Which airport > base station do I need to get? And what is a fair price for all of this on > ebay or if I buy from another place
Your only option for your iBook is the Apple AirPort card. As to the base station, I've got a snow one a few months ago for around $120 on eBay. I believe they might have come down in price with the imminent release of AirPort Express. You could check on AirPort Express to see if it specifically supports 802.11b or regular AirPort. I think it does, but I'm not sure. At $129, that's pretty cheap considering what you might end up paying on eBay for a snow one, unless they significantly dropped in price. I would recommend you stay away from the first generation AirPort base stations, known sometimes as the "graphite". Their internal capacitors tend to blow after a little while. I had 2 of them that I had to replace. So far, the snow one works fine. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.: Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the implications of droid. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
