On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Chris Hoffman wrote: > So, my first question: I have my printer and my keyboard plugged > into the 2 available USB ports. Can I plug the printer into the one > remaining USB port on the backside of my keyboard, freeing one of > the USB ports on the side of my G-3?
That will probably work. What you have to look out for is that the ports on a keyboard generally do not supply power, so you can't plug in anything like one of those small USB portable hard drives. I've even had trouble plugging in some flash drives. A better solution might be to buy a powered USB hub and plug that into one of the ports. This would add several powered ports in the place of one original port. The older machines only had USB 1 ports, so make sure any hub will work with USB 1 and not just USB 2. > > 2. The Apple tech said, if it were his older IMac G-3, he would > > install an Airport card. (He said that operation, for him, would be > very easy.) It is pretty easy to install an Airport card on most machines. Some machines also need a mounting bracket, and these are harder to find than the cards. Before you buy a card, make sure you're getting all the pieces you need. > He said I needed specifically a B Airport card, NOT a G. (An A card > will work, but it will be slower than the B.) And the B Airport > card must be non-Airport Extreme. He said my G-3 still wouldn't be > as fast as the new IMac, but it would sure be a heck of a lot > faster than with the 28.8K dial-up modem. There isn't much point in getting anything other than an 802.11b card for that machine. The faster cards from Apple won't work on it and the maximum speed on USB 1 port isn't enough to keep up with a g or n card. Another possibility is to plug a wireless adaptor into your Ethernet port . This would allow you to get g or n speed out of that older machine. (Assuming it has a 100 Mb/s Ethernet port.) I've used machines with Ethernet adaptors made by Belkin (I think??), and they worked quite well. MacWireless [1] sells them specifically for Macs, and might be easier to set up. [1] <http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/11g_11b_cards/ 11gEthAdapter.php> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071017/0b5a67b9/attachment.html
