On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 08:31 AM, Greg Gilmore wrote:
Since my daughter has decided to continue her college education online,802.11g will not work in your house because all of you machines cannot be fitted with an 802.11g card. If I wanted to go wireless with your machines this is what I would do. Because wifi systems can only go as fast as the slowest system connecting I would buy a cheap Linksys 802.11b wireless router and access point.
we�re finally going to make the leap from 56K to broadband, and to obviate
running cables between the 4 Macs that are regularly used for internet
access throughout the house, we�ll make a simultaneous leap to wireless. I,
however, don�t know much about it and would be very grateful for your advice
about what we need to buy in order to bring the following machines up to
speed:
1) PowerBook G4/667MHz/OS 10.2. (I�m pretty sure this machine is �Airport
ready�, but the card is probably 802.11b, right? I�d probably want the newer
802.11g technology on this one. Is it difficult and/or expensive to
upgrade?)
2) iBook G3/700 MHz/OS 10.2. (This one doesn�t appear to be �Airport ready�,
but maybe I�m not looking in the right places. We�d want 802.11g for this
one as well.)
3) PowerBook G3 (Lombard)/400 MHz/OS 9.2.2 (Definitely not �Airport ready�.
This machine is used primarily for email so an 802.11b card should be
sufficient, if it can be fitted with one. If so, would the 802.11b card from
the G4 PowerBook work here?)
4) iMac/350 MHz/OS 9.2.2 (Definitely not �Airport ready�, but I guess this
would be the machine which would connected to the cable modem via Ethernet
anyway.)
Sorry, two of these machines would be O.T. for this list, but they�ll all be
networked together. Comcast offers internet cable service in this area but I
need to make sure they�re compatible with Airport.
Thanks for taking the time to consider our questions.
Greg
-- There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and
those who can't.
With the Ti powerbook and the Lombard I would get a third party 802.11b card for the PCMCIA slot. The Ti book can use apples airport but were plagued with bad wifi reception.
With the iBook, I would just get an airport card.
With the iMac you have two option, you can either just plug it into the router or you can pay more money and get an airport card for it. I would just plug it into the router unless you don't want it in the room where the router is.
I hope that helps.
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