[P1] 802.11g on Dual USB iBook?

[Allan Hise]

Firmware updates won't do it, the actual hardware is different.
11g requires much higher performance hardware than 11b, which means that a
radio that wasn't designed with 11g in mind probably won't work for 11g,
at least not very well. Since 11g didn't exist when the original airport
cards came to be, I doubt they would be compliant with the spec, unlike
the 11g cards that were designed to a draft version of the spec. The
differences between the draft versions and the final were minimal and any
issues were easier to correct in firmware.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Tom R. no spam wrote:

> Many, many original AirPort card users want to know the same--
> when will Apple release a firmware upgrade for these to work
> as 11g.  11g is supposed to make it possible for just this to
> happen for 11b users.  A hassle particularly because 11g
> networks are slowed down when 11b clients are connected.