On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 11:21 PM, Donald Keenan wrote: > Sorry for the abortive message with this topic just a minute ago! > My question is about the potential purchase of a beautiful Clamshell > iBook SE with an Airport Card and base station. > The Airport is all "first generation" or "first issue". Will this matter > if I am using OS X?
Not at all; technologically, the original Airport is almost exactly identical to the Airport that Apple sells today. The only difference is that the Base Station has more features and the cards have better encryption. Other than that, it's all still IEEE 802.11b, and the ALL Airport devices are interoperable with each other; that is, you can use older airport cards with newer base stations, and OS X sees no difference between the older and newer. > I have a cable modem and naively assume that I would simply put the > station near modem. I can then turn on my iBook and walk away from the > station and have connectivity. Or? Do I need a card in my iMac as well > to serve as a host for the wireless > connection? The Airport Base Station serves as the host. If you have the older style base station, and you're going to have a wired client (the iMac), you'll need to get a cable router. If you buy an Airport card for your iMac, you can forgo the cable router. HTH Jeremy -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
