Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Clark Martin
At 7:44 PM -0800 12/14/04, Andrew Fishkin wrote: Your new PowerBook or iBook won't care whether it is talking to a base station, a Sawtooth pretending to be a base station, or the T-Mobile connection at your local Starbucks. An 802.11 signal is the same as any other, the only variances being speed

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Fishkin
Your new PowerBook or iBook won't care whether it is talking to a base station, a Sawtooth pretending to be a base station, or the T-Mobile connection at your local Starbucks. An 802.11 signal is the same as any other, the only variances being speed (a, b, g etc) and range, which depends on the an

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:57 PM -0500 12/14/04, Gregory Cortelyou wrote: On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Andrew wrote: I mix and match freely as well without a problem. I have an old Lucent 802.11b (Airport) card in my Lombard, a 3Com 802.11b card in my old Toshiba laptop, an original Airport card in my G4 desktop (Sawt

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread John McGibney
They all use the same basic airport card (except the extreme). It will work fine. John > > On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Andrew wrote: > >> I mix and match freely as well without a problem. I >> have an old Lucent 802.11b (Airport) card in my >> Lombard, a 3Com 802.11b card in my old Toshiba l

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Gregory Cortelyou
On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Andrew wrote: I mix and match freely as well without a problem. I have an old Lucent 802.11b (Airport) card in my Lombard, a 3Com 802.11b card in my old Toshiba laptop, an original Airport card in my G4 desktop (Sawtooth) and an Airport Extreme card in my 12" G4, all

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread kochkodin
The funny thing is that before we got the Belkin card for the Gateway, my son had a Nextel(??? Yellow box) card that wouldn't work at all...Returned it to Staples and got the Belkin and that took right off at installation and has worked perfectly since Black Friday... Mike I mix and match freel

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread kochkodin
Laurent Daudelin wrote: I am probably moving up from my beloved Pismo to a Powerbook G4 or new iBook early next year. They now come with Airport Extreme built in and I was wondering if I can still use my software base station setup. I have been using my G4 desktop as the base station, it has the o

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew
I mix and match freely as well without a problem. I have an old Lucent 802.11b (Airport) card in my Lombard, a 3Com 802.11b card in my old Toshiba laptop, an original Airport card in my G4 desktop (Sawtooth) and an Airport Extreme card in my 12" G4, all connected to an Airport Extreme base station

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Jeff Drummond
On Dec 13, 2004, at 10:30 pm, Gregory Cortelyou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am probably moving up from my beloved Pismo to a Powerbook G4 or new iBook early next year. They now come with Airport Extreme built in and I was wondering if I can still use my software base station setup. I have been us

Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-14 Thread Gregory Cortelyou
I am probably moving up from my beloved Pismo to a Powerbook G4 or new iBook early next year. They now come with Airport Extreme built in and I was wondering if I can still use my software base station setup. I have been using my G4 desktop as the base station, it has the old standard Airport c

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 14/12/04 09:21, "Jeff Drummond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2004, at 10:30 pm, Gregory Cortelyou > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I am probably moving up from my beloved Pismo to a Powerbook G4 or new >> iBook early next year. They now come with Airport Extreme built in and >> I

Re: Airport Extreme Question

2004-12-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 11:59 PM -0500 12/13/04, Gregory Cortelyou wrote: I am probably moving up from my beloved Pismo to a Powerbook G4 or new iBook early next year. They now come with Airport Extreme built in and I was wondering if I can still use my software base station setup. I have been using my G4 desktop as