Poll: Do you use Airport?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: Do you use Airport? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=140&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[rainman::|:|]

i keep meaning to pick up a couple of cards for internet sharing. it's expensive but i want the actual airport base. but for now, i don't.

i was so pissed off when i found out this "airport-ready" imac needs a special adaptor for a card... :rolleyes:

pnw

[sparkleytone]

the adaptor comes with the airport card. its just a pcmcia mount really.

[MorganX]

Using Linksys Wireless-G Router and iMac with AE card. Works like a charm. Airport makes wireless setup a snap.

Only problem is I still cannot get the iMac to work with WEP, yet.

[timbloom]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
the adaptor comes with the airport card. its just a pcmcia mount really.

not anymore, no machines currently need it, so apple stopped including them, you have to buy the transposer card seperately.. I think that is the correct term.

[shadowfax]

I have a netgear 802.11b router in the other room, with 2 (family) PCs plugged into 2 of the rear connections, and then my lil' tiBook (mine only) in my room using it's good old airport card.

[fixyourthinking]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
the adaptor comes with the airport card. its just a pcmcia mount really.

For almost a year (ever since the flat panel iMac introduction the card and the CRT iMac adapter are sold seperately, but they did reduce the Airport card to $79.99 and sell the adapter for $19.99 - the original price was $99.99 for the card/adapter

[fixyourthinking]

The most affordable and useful soltion is to use a Belkin USB 802.11b adapter. It can be used on any Mac that can take USB, even USB PCI cards. It can also be used on a PC and os 9-X.


You can get them from Staples this week for $40

or from the Belkin website

[howard]

i absolutely love wireless interenet. got a netgear router

[wdlove]

My wife has the Airport Card in her iBook. We purchased the AirPort Base Station at MWNY. Called tech support for assistance, determined that it was defective. We got a full refund.

Since we have Earthlink DSL, signed up for their Home Networking. Have the ZWire HP 100, it has given us good service! :)

[Rower_CPU]

I could never go back to wires...I'm spoiled by the freedom. :)

[Kwyjibo]

I agree, its so nice to be able to surf from wherever you want. The problem is that its sometihng you don't think about when your realyl used to a desktop but once you try it makes suring so much more comfortable. Also it makes a good case for something like a 17" pb so that you could find a comfy spot and surf but still have a decent amount of power but for now I'm on the iBook.

[janey]

airport extreme with fast fast fast internet :)
i love wireless...

[Jaykay]

yup....... (not extreme though)

[scem0]

Maybe....... if I could afford it easily. ;)

[chmorley]

Originally posted by MorganX
Using Linksys Wireless-G Router and iMac with AE card. Works like a charm. Airport makes wireless setup a snap.

Only problem is I still cannot get the iMac to work with WEP, yet. Just resolved this recently, myself. You'll find the answers you need here (http://www.macwindows.com/airportpc.html). While most of it is about using non-Apple PC cards with Airport base stations, it also give you the information you need to connect the two platforms any which way.

Chris

[kansaigaijin]

Paul or anyone else with a 350mhz iMac that needs the adapter. yes it is about 20$ so I wouldn't bother with an external USB crap. I have it and it works great, just pops in.
the bigger deficiency in this model though is lack of firewire, and no way to add that I am afraid.

the poll is a little too simple, I have Airmac (japanese airport) and a NEC warpstar Aterm basestation. I have a grey basestation but the 2 PCs in the house being japanese only were too much trouble to set up, the brother in-law set up them with the basestation. No matter the whole set-up works like a dream and now we have yahooBB phone VOIP! what I want now is a 802.11b phone!

[yzedf]

Originally posted by MorganX
Using Linksys Wireless-G Router and iMac with AE card. Works like a charm. Airport makes wireless setup a snap.

Only problem is I still cannot get the iMac to work with WEP, yet.

You have to convert the key to hex, then put into your imac.

[eyelikeart]

I use it to network my 2 machines together...

my TiBook has the regular airport in it...while my iMac has airport extreme...

very cool stuff though... ;)

[Falleron]

Wish I could afford a wireless network. Cant justify the cost at the moment.

[MacFan25]

Nope, I don't use airport.

[dkeninitz]

All the time...and, I can't resist a quick story.

I'm a 20-yr. PC veteran who finally bought a Mac - TiBook 1ghz. I got it home just as it was starting to snow one evening a few weeks ago. Sat down on the sofa and settled in to play with the new "toy" while the snow piled up. I turned it on and waited while it ran through the initial configuration routine. When it asked me if I wanted to connect to the Internet, I thought, "nah...I don't want to screw around installing wireless card software and specifying CSID numbers like on my PC laptops - I want to play around with this thing!"

So I said no, and the machine pleaded with me, "are you sure...Mac makes it really easy." I gave in and said "yeah, what the heck". One click and Explorer pops up and lands me at the Apple site. The Airport card located my wireless network and there I am surfing the 'Net 15 minutes after I turn the unit on for the first time.

If I could find more software, I'd buy one of those new dual 1.42's PM's and get rid of my Wintel desktop forever. What a machine!

[kansaigaijin]

what software are you looking for?

[dkeninitz]

Originally posted by kansaigaijin
what software are you looking for?

It's more a matter of my perception of general software availability than a particular package at this point. But two packages that I can't do without are Visio and Access.