On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Wendi Williams wrote:

> The G4 is a dual 1 Ghz, so it's the Quicksilver 2002. According to the Apple 
> support document, an Airport card is optional (with note 3). The card is a 
> plain vanilla Airport card with firmware 9.52. I spent all of $17 on the 
> card, so it's not a real loss if it doesn't work. It sees our network, and 
> all our neighbors' networks, but I get a connection timeout when I try to 
> join ours. I'm surprised that the card sees those networks at all if it will 
> not connect.

The older Apple Airport cards that only support 802.11b have a problem with WPA 
security because they were made with a version of WPA predating the official 
final version. Most routers of recent vintage actually do WPA2, which is even 
farther outside the realm of the older cards. The older cards were made to use 
the older WEP security standard.

I'd recommend turning off all security on the router for a little while to see 
if the card works that way. If it does, you can use WEP security instead of 
WPA. WEP encryption isn't as good as WPA, but it is enough to keep out casual 
snoops.



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