[muglo] Re: Airport Cards
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:55:55 -0500
Ok, let's back up a bit.
There are two Airports, Airport (802.11b; 11 mega bits per second
Mbps) and Airport Extreme (802.11g; 55 Mbps).
Airport "original" (AO) is the 802.11b standard and was used in Apple
Macs from 1999 to ~2002 (some 2003). Airport Extreme (AE) is a speed
upgrade introduced in 2002/2003. The slots that take AE and AO are
entirely different.
In 2004 Apple stopped selling Aiport cards which caused their value to
spike since a *lot* of people wanted to make their older Macs wireless
compatible, and, for iBooks and iMacs the Airport is their ONLY
_internal_ option.
For PowerBooks the choices are more varied since they have a PCMCIA
slot which means they can get wireless that way.
As for whether or not a SPECIFIC wireless card will or will not work
with your machine -- I would check the manufacturer's web site to see
if they have a driver. Alternately, ioxperts has a driver (20 USD)
that will support a million and one cards.
Eric.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:04:00 -0500, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22-Feb-05, at 9:36 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > Check the Apple site ;) If it's <800 MHz, chances are it's an Airport,
> > used and $$$ :( :( :(. Anything newer (2002 or later IIRC) ought to be
> > Airport Extreme, new and $$ :) :) :).
> Don't follow any of the above.
>
> > You ought to be able to find Airports for ~$100 if you look *really*
> > hard and get lucky. If you're not willing to shell out for a used
> > Airport, you can always get a generic 802.11b or g card for $50 or $60
> > that ought to work.
> >
> > Eric.
>
> Thanks Eric, that's why I asked. I can buy a generic (Star actually)
> for $50, another for $40, both 802.11b. All claim Windows blah, blah,
> blah, but none refer to Mac O/S. Does this matter?
> TTFN,
> TeeC
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