Lee and Harry, Thank you for all your good information. Lee, I decided to take your advice and bought an Airport Card for my Ibook. I then found the Linksys Broadband Router, WRT54G, on sale for $69.00 with an additional $10 rebate and bought it along with the WMP54G PCI Adaptor for my daughter's Dell computer (wish she had better taste...hehe!). I have hooked up my G4 and my G3 Ibook with no problems and the connection works great.My daughter still has to hook up her Dell, so will let you know how that goes. I wish I had known before how easy this was.
In checking the various MAC chat groups,I realize that MAC compatibility is no problem since you can set everything up through a website at Linksys regardless of your system. Thanks again for helping me! Nora > From: Lee Larson <llarson at Louisville.edu> > Reply-To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:27:48 -0400 > To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > Subject: Re: Re(2): MacGroup: Wireless connection > > On Jun 26, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Nora J. Probasco asked: > >> I would still like to connect my G3 Ibook using the 802.11g technology >> vs >> buying an Airport Card only using the "b" technlogy. Any suggestions? >> Could >> a Linksys card be used on the G3 Ibook? > > Apple doesn't make an internal Airport Extreme card for the older > Airport compatible machines because the slot circuitry is not fast > enough to handle more than 11 Mb/s. There are external devices to do it > with Ethernet (assuming you have 100 Mb/s Ethernet on the iBook), but > you would have to fuss to get them working, and they'd be clumsy for > use with an iBook. > > For most people, the "b" protocol has more than enough bandwidth. It's > at least thrice the fastest speed you'll get out of a cable broadband > connection, so it causes no bottleneck with e-mail or the Web. Unless > you're routinely moving huge files between machines in your house, > there's little need for more bandwidth. > > I do routinely move huge files around, and, when I do, I just plug the > PowerBook into the Ethernet to take advantage of the 100 Mb/s wired > speed because that's twice as fast as "g". > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
