going wireless

[Gary Williams]

I have a 800mhz Ibook. I am thinking of going wireless, the appeal of the
internet while watching TV! boy that sounds so sad...
Anyway since I have the Ibook I bet I will need an airport card instead of a
3rd party card. What about base units? Do I have to use the airport base
station or can I use any others?

Thanks,
Gary Williams

[Gary Williams]

The Ibook doesn't have any card slots. The airport card would go in an
internal slot.

> From what I've heard, you don't have to have an AirPort base station --
> third-party wireless base stations work as well. However, I think the
> AirPort base station is significantly easier to configure. (I don't
> actually have experience in this area, though, as I have the AirPort
> base.) If that's a concern, I'd probably stick with that rather than
> trying a third-party solution.
>
> --
> -Thomas
>
> <http://www.bitjuggler.com/>

[Jean-Michel Courivaud]

Gary Williams wrote:

> I have a 800mhz Ibook. I am thinking of going wireless, the appeal of the
> internet while watching TV! boy that sounds so sad...
> Anyway since I have the Ibook I bet I will need an airport card instead of a
> 3rd party card. What about base units? Do I have to use the airport base
> station or can I use any others?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary Williams
>
>

Hello,
I personnally use a linksys "wireless access point router" quite
inexpensive and not that hard to configure.
My cable modem is connected to the linksys
My PC is connected to the linksys through an standard network RJ45 cable
and my power book uses its airport card.

And as you say, surfing the web while watching TV, peacefully resting on
my sofa without any "wire" is something really nice :-)

But if I remember right, only the airport base can use the "super high
bitrate" of an airport extrem card.

regards

[Wojciech Orlinski]

In <3f5c99fe@queeg.apci.net> Gary Williams wrote:

> I have a 800mhz Ibook. I am thinking of going wireless, the appeal of
> the internet while watching TV! boy that sounds so sad... Anyway since
> I have the Ibook I bet I will need an airport card instead of a 3rd
> party card.

Yes. You have no PCMCIA slot, so you must use the Apple-branded card
that goes under the keyboard (a nice solotion anyway).

> What about base units? Do I have to use the airport base
> station or can I use any others?

You can use any station you want, but configuring some base stations can
be a major pain in the backside (just like configuring hardware router).
If you'll go with Apple-branded equipment, it will be just a matter of
few intuitive clicks on your own iBook. If you are looking for a bargain,
why not seek some second hand graphite base station? It's really cheap
and this sort of equipment can run for years without any problem.

--
My taxes went to Iraq and all I got was this lousy sig.

[no_more_spam@mac.com]

Wojciech Orlinski <igel@gazeta.pl> wrote:

> If you'll go with Apple-branded equipment, it will be just a matter of
> few intuitive clicks on your own iBook. If you are looking for a bargain,
> why not seek some second hand graphite base station? It's really cheap
> and this sort of equipment can run for years without any problem.

I second this. The all-Apple solution "just works" effortlessly.
A used snow base station would be your best bet if you wanted to go
cheap.

[H.B. Elkins]

"Gary Williams" <gwilliams@memhosp.com> wrote:

>I have a 800mhz Ibook. I am thinking of going wireless, the appeal of the
>internet while watching TV! boy that sounds so sad...
>Anyway since I have the Ibook I bet I will need an airport card instead of a
>3rd party card. What about base units? Do I have to use the airport base
>station or can I use any others?

I'm using a D-Link wireless router with an iBook and an AirPort card.
Works wonderfully.


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