[G4] Airport Express behavior

[Snow White]

John

I am pretty sure that Airport Express requires the Extreme Airport Card 
in your computer.  As your older G4 has the original card it cannot 
stream music, but it can still connect at 11 Mbs to the network.

There are ways around this problem:
Open itunes and Preferences on the old G4
Set to share your music.
On the PowerBook open itunes/Prefs/Look for shared
Once you find the list of shared songs hit play and shoot it though 
your Express to the stereo.

I think this will work, but my network is hardwired with a router, and 
it works perfectly.

jj



On 31-Oct-04, at 6:49 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
wrote:

> The rub is that the PowerBook can stream mp3 files to the Airport
> Express with no trouble.  The PowerMac G4, however, can't, although it
> happily accesses the Internet over the Express.  In fact, iTunes on the
> PowerMac doesn't even display the pull-down menu for selecting the
> Airport Express.  The only difference between the two machines is the
> cards -- the PowerMac G4 has a regular Airport Card (802.11b) and the
> PowerBook G4 has an Airport Extreme Card (802.11g).
>
> Since all Apple marketing material states that one can use 802.11b
> cards with Express, I'm at a loss for what could be the problem.  Any
> ideas?