[G4] Airport Extreme

[Eric Volker]

Unlike what one poster suggests, you'll have to buy an Airport Extreme 
for the new G4 and a regular Airport for the iBook. You can skip the 
Airport Base Station. I believe Mac OS X and 9 both have an Airport 
mode called "Software Base Station" that will let you use your G4 as a 
base station. If anyone out there has experience with this function, 
please post. I'm curious if people are using it and what kind of 
performance and/or difficulty they've had out of that setup. I 
eventually intend to get an Airport for my Quicksilver, set up a 
software base station and use an 802.11b card in my Dell laptop to 
connect to the internet.

Eric

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 02:11  PM, tony melvin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a new 1 gig mac with the airport extreme
> possibility.
>
> I also have a Ibook with a normal airpot card.
>
> If a was to buy an airport extreme card could I use my
> airport extreme enabled mac as a router and surf on my
> Ibook?  Or do I need the new airport basestation also?
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or experiences?
>
> Thanx in advance
> Tony
>
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