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Connect like a rock to wifi with your Blue & White PowerMac G3
If you are running a Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White you may be a bit disappointed with the wireless options you have available.
One of my clients set themselves up with a 128-bit encrypted network and it caused nothing but trouble for our Macs old enough not to be compatible with Apple Airport cards. After using a Macwireless card to some success in OS 9, and an Ethernet-connected D-Link to less success in OS X we were starting to think that we'd just have to live with the server "unexpectedly disconnecting" 10 times a day.
In the meantime a neighbor in my building had just improved his reception of my wifi network 10 fold by upgrading from a USB-powered Linksys to a Buffalo Tech Airstation. It plugs into a free PCI slot and has an antenna with a 3' cord that helps get it away from the computer. This thing picked up my signal up a floor, across the building and through three steel doors. It's that good.
Best yet:
• 802.11b AND 802.11g compatible
• if you're on OS 10.2.8 you can use Apple's "Airport Setup Assistant" as the Mac recognizes this card as Apple's even though (1) it's not and (2) there is no mention of Mac support on the box - maybe in the next generation...
Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on May 22, 2004 4:07 AM