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Name: stevo Date: October 22, 2003 at 03:22:49 Pacific OS: OSX 10.1.5 CPU/Ram: G3 600/384
Comment:
Hi
Can airport equipped macs connect to a non apple wireless access point, or would they only communicate with a airport base station?
Name: radioboy Date: October 22, 2003 at 05:02:24 Pacific
Reply:
You're in luck. My home wireless setup uses a NETGEAR MR314 wireless router. It's cross-platform,with easy on-line configuration and settings. Modem & router plug into my Win98 PC...and it works great sending the signal just about anywhere in the house to my airport-equipped G3 iBOOK & iMAC. Here's an older product review. This particular model may have been replaced by updated hardwarwe, but you'll get the idea.... http://pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,103247,00.asp I'm sure other products would work fine, but this has been my personal experience. Hope it helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: Nugs Date: October 22, 2003 at 05:20:56 Pacific
Reply:
Yea, it shouldn't be a problem... I have 3 PCs wired and 2 Macs wireless running thru a Netgear MR314. No problem, piece of cake.
And I definately recommmend the Netgear over a linksys... I took my linksys wireless router back after a few weeks because the signal would always drop during downloads and the wireless signal would always drop after a few of inactivity... go netgear.
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