Your new PowerBook or iBook won't care whether it is talking to a base station, a Sawtooth pretending to be a base station, or the T-Mobile connection at your local Starbucks. An 802.11 signal is the same as any other, the only variances being speed (a, b, g etc) and range, which depends on the antenna and the power of the radio. The only possible disadvantage of using your Sawtooth instead of a hardware base station is range, and I don't know if it is an actual deficit or not. Of course, you also have the Sawtooth turned on, making noise, guess that could also be a disad.
While all "g" equipment will work with "b" equipment (as far as I've heard). "a" works on a different frequency than "b" or "g" (which both work on the same freq). Some equipment is "abg" but some is just "a". I don't know how much of each however.
Also, none of Apple's stuff uses "a".
Andrew
On 12/14/04 6:57 PM, "Gregory Cortelyou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg
On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Andrew wrote:
I mix and match freely as well without a problem. I have an old Lucent 802.11b (Airport) card in my Lombard, a 3Com 802.11b card in my old Toshiba laptop, an original Airport card in my G4 desktop (Sawtooth) and an Airport Extreme card in my 12" G4, all connected to an Airport Extreme base station at home. My 12" G4 with AE also works perfectly on my friend's original graphite Airport network.
Andrew
I think all of you that have replied are using either Graphite, Snow or Airport Extreme base stations. I don't have one. I am using my G4 Sawtooth equipped with an original Airport card as a software base station. It works great, but I am still a little worried about the Airport Extreme compatibility when I get my new Powerbook or iBook. I guess at worst I will have to purchase a real hardware base station.
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