Re: Airport card for 4o+ year old G4 / wireless setup

In article <11f93pqpsmm9m74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jane <Jane@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been asked by a friend to help set up a wireless network. They
> recently had cable access installed and want to be able to access the
> web with both an old Mac G4 (a rather large desktop tower) and a small
> HP laptop. The G4 does not seem to have an Airport card inside and
> searching for one on the Apple site was fruitless. All of the cards
> there were for laptops. Am I looking in the wrong place? What kind of
> Airport card goes inside the box?
>
> As I set up something similar in my house (with dial up) with an
> AirportExtreme, my Powerbook G4 and an Intel laptop there was no problem
> as both laptops had WiFi cards (well there was a minor problem with XP
> and WEP but it was resolved). I was going to suggest the AirportExtreme
> base station, a PCI wireless card for their laptop (Linksys? It is what
> I installed at work for two PC's) and an internal Airport card for the
> G4 but I can't find the card for the G4 anywhere and now think that
> maybe they can get away spending less money on a Linksys router.
>
> So my questions are, what card can I use in their Mac G4 and will their
> Mac be easy to set up with a Linksys router?

If you're looking for Apple-branded hardware for that tower, you're
stuck with the (discontinued) 802.11b card that looks an awful lot like
a PCMCIA device but isn't. They're fairly routinely available on eBay,
but they're kind of expensive for an 11Mb connection in 2005, typically
going for $70 or more used. I _think_ there are PCI solutions for that
machine, and I know there are external ones, and both should be cheaper
and possibly faster. As I have no direct experience with them, I won't
make recommendations of specific products. I will say that LinkSys has
products that are known to be Mac-compatible in this area, but their
support for Macs is generally not well regarded.

--
Goal 2005: Convincing James Hetfield to cover the Strawberry Shortcake
"Are You Berry Berry Happy?" song.
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