I got the old slow "b" protocol because I was more concerned with range. I got a cardbus card because I have a 550 tiBook with reputedly horrible internal antenna and so I wanted the external antenna. All of the 11(b) equipment is really cheap now because nobody but us LowEndLuddites want it.
I use the older model Asante "b" wireless router with the 2 antennas. I put the router high on the wall in the center of my old house that has a lot of wire mesh in the lath. My range from the Asante router to my tiBook is in excess of 250 feet outdoors.
I bought a D-Link 614+ wireless router here in my office and it works fine for some things, but it does not support appletalk packets. If you buy a D-Link product, better check this out. They sometimes say they are Mac compatible (and they are at the TCP-IP level) but you have to read the fine print to see which of their products support Appletalk---if you have old machines or printers and need it.
For print servers, many of the old Asante routers have a print server port that used to only work with Windows or Postscript Printers, but now it works with OSX.3. on some other printers--depending on the driver and whether the printer has a parallel port.
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