Airport Card Compatibility?

[sourpatchkidACB]

We have a Belkin wireless router for our PC. If I get an Airport card for my ibook, will the wireless work for mine?

 

[Wireless Buddy]

We have a Belkin wireless router for our PC. If I get an Airport card for my ibook, will the wireless work for mine?

If your iBook is a G3, I think your router would need to be 802.11a or b. It can be other letters, but it needs to support either a or b for it to work with an iBook G3's AirPort Original card. If you have a G4 iBook, it would have an AirPort Extreme Card, so it would use 802.11a/b/g. So your router would need to have either a/b/g.

Hope that helps.

 

[sourpatchkidACB]

If your iBook is a G3, I think your router would need to be 802.11a or b. It can be other letters, but it needs to support either a or b for it to work with an iBook G3's AirPort Original card. If you have a G4 iBook, it would have an AirPort Extreme Card, so it would use 802.11a/b/g. So your router would need to have either a/b/g.

Hope that helps.

So if the belkin was a 802.11g, the card wouldn't work?

If not, is there any other way I can wireless?

 

[Wireless Buddy]

So if the belkin was a 802.11g, the card wouldn't work?

If not, is there any other way I can wireless?

If the Belkin was ONLY 802.11g, it wouldn't work. But I think almost all routers are backwards compatible with 802.11a/b. So just double check, and you're good to go.

 

[Wireless Buddy]

Just to elaborate, it should say something like 802.11a/b/g on the box.