[G4] Which airport card for a Power Mac G4 Mirrored Drives

[Luke Rademacher]

oops. My mistake then. I thought the Sonnet Aria PCI Card I had was  
"n" I never noticed a difference though. My MDD is speeding along in  
my home wifi LAN using an AT&T eWire Wireless Gateway combo DSL Modem/ 
4port Router. I opted for the WiFi variation when I needed to move my  
MDD out of the main Office and into a space down the hall but I did  
not have Cat5e cable long enough to do the trick. My wife's Windows  
XP laptop uses the WiFi gateway as well as an old iMac G4 down the  
hall that a part timer who helps me out uses. The Mac mini I have  
sits only 12 feet away from the WiFi gateway and I've never noticed  
the speed of accessing the Internet to be any faster than when I am  
using my MDD Mac down the hall. I've never deemed myself an expert in  
the WiFi thing. And 90% of the time I would prefer to Just use good  
old fashioned Ethernet Cable with Cat5e or Cat6 and connect my home  
and office, because I still feel that WiFi is harder to manage in  
Terms of Security.

I do not use the Aria card on my Linux or Windows machines so I  
cannot tell you. There are other PCI card options that are designed  
for Macs that work in similar function.

Just in case you haven't looked OWC aka Other World Computing  
(www.macsales.com) have a whole listing of 802.11n possibilities...  
some are USB dongle thingies, and some are PCI card options.

My Sonnet Aria works just fine for my problem.

Sorry,

Luke Rademacher
Liquid Zone Graphics
Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/CDRW,  
Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD.
MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/RW  
Superdrive, Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11, Classic Mac OS 9.2.2.
Intel Celeron 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ubuntu Linux 8.04
5.5th gen 80GB Enhanced Video iPod
Canon CanoScan 8400F
Canon Pixma iP450

On Aug 23, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Jonathan MIller wrote:

> Thank you all for the quick feedback.
>
> BG, I can't use the hardwired port because I have no ethernet  
> nearby.  I need to connect via wifi.  Jay, I understand what you  
> are saying about using the Airport Express and connecting it to the  
> MDD via ethernet.  This works only if you have the Airport Express  
> in WDS mode, extending an existing Airport base station.  Trouble  
> is, I have an existing third party access point in the house  
> connecting 8 other clients, so the Airport Express can't run in WDS  
> mode to extend the range of the wifi net to the MDD.  It could only  
> run in client mode, and then the enet port is disabled and the  
> Express becomes simply a destination for AirTunes and print jobs.
>
> I think I am going to go with a third party PCI 802.11n card.   
> Don't see a Sonnet 802.11n PCI card, just g, on SonnetTech's site.   
> Luke, can you tell me what you are using?  And do you recommend the  
> Sonnet PCI adapters for Ubuntu and Winblows machines?  Looks like  
> good hardware.
>
> Anyone have any experience with the MacWireless 802.11n PCI card  
> for $90?  See http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/ 
> wireless_cards/11n_cards/11nPCI.php
>
> JM
>
>
> --- On Sat, 8/23/08, Jay E. Krauss Jr <jekrauss at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Jay E. Krauss Jr <jekrauss at charter.net>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] Which airport card for a Power Mac G4 Mirrored  
>> Drives
>> To: miller_jonathan at yahoo.com, "A place to discuss Apple's G4  
>> computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 7:59 PM
>> You are correct; the MDD requires the original Airport card
>> (and it will just be 802.11b). I have found it better to
>> purchase the
>> new "n" version of Airport Express and use the
>> MDD's Ethernet port to
>> connect to the Airport Express. Depending on whether there
>> are other
>> a/b wireless receivers on your network, you can then run at
>> "n" speed.
>> Jay E Krauss Jr
>>
>>
>>> I just inherited an old Power Mac G4 Mirrored Drives
>> model.  Has
>>> 10.4 on it.  No airport card in it.  Need to connect to
>> my home
>>> 802.11 net.  Ordered the Airport Extreme Card but
>> doesn't seem to
>>> fit.  Either I need the original old 802.11b Airport
>> Card or an
>>> adapter of some kind.  Does anyone know for sure?
>>>
>>> Thank you.  (By the way, I am in the process of
>> converting my entire
>>> household of 8 machines to Linux and Mac and this is
>> the start.
>>> We're done with Windows.)
>>>
>>>
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