On 17/06/09 10:40 PM, "John Martz" <zjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Arnel Tuazon<a.tua...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Quick question: Which is better (more stable) an original Airport card >> (802.11b) or a PCI wireless card that is 802.11n ? > > IMO that's a question that can't really be answered as asked. I don't > believe the "stability" of a connection has much to do with whether > the protocol used is 802.11b or n. I wouldn't approach the question of > what adapter to use this way. Thanks for the detailed answer, but my question wasn't really dealing with the protocol. I apologize if it seemed confusing, but what I was really asking was the stability of the TYPE of card being used i.e. Airport vs. PCI. The Airport card is Apple and Apple I trust, the PCI card is 3rd party "Edimax nMax 802.11n PCI wireless card". Does anyone have any experience using a PCI wireless card on a G4 and if so how stable was it? I am using the latest Airport Extreme base station. > > 802.11n can be noticeably faster than 802.11b. But if you don't think > things through ahead of time you might not realize the potential the > marketeering types allege in their cryptic ad bites. That said, > 802.11b is pretty well dead at this point in time and I wouldn't > advise anyone to go that route unless they had very compelling reasons > to do so. Or equivalently, compelling reasons why they would NOT want > to go with 802.11n. > > The fact that you would be using an 802.11n capable router makes me > wonder why on earth you'd stick with "b". But I really don't know your > context and doing so may very well make sense for you. > The reason I was considering the original Airport card was that the G4 Gig-E has a built-in Airport card port. I know that on my old G3 iBook, the Airport card picks up the connection to the base station very well and it has no problems what so ever. If I go with the PCI route, even though there are OS X drivers, would there be potential problems with connecting to the base station? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
