[G4] Mixing Airport and Airport Extreme

[Philip J Robar]

On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> On 8-Apr-06, at 1:07 PM, Jones Earle wrote:
>
>> I want to add an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station as a wireless  
>> router for two machines:  My new Intel iMac, which has an airport  
>> extreme card inside, and my old G4/400 (AGP) which can only use  
>> the older Airport card.
>>
>> Will the presence of the older Airport card (11mbps) affect the  
>> speed of my iMac and Airport Extreme (54mbps)?
>
> According to a document at the Apple site (http:// 
> docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107372), they should mix well:
>
> "When you mix 802.11b (AirPort) and 802.11g (AirPort Extreme)  
> clients on an AirPort Extreme network, each type of client receives  
> an appropriate data throughput rate. The 802.11g clients continue  
> to receive data at a higher rate than 802.11b clients."

This has also been my experience with my AirLink+ Mimo/G router.  
(Highly recommended by the way, only $30 at Fry's and it works great  
in my apartment.)


Phil
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