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Can I make my G4 Cube support 802.1n?

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daizhuo

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hello, guys, looking forward to find the answer of the title was post.
Is there an Airport Card supported 802.1n can replace the original card that just support 802.1b?
As a new user of G4 Cube has lots of issue unknown. Thank u for ur help!
 
You won't be able to directly replace the wireless card from your cube, but there are quite a few USB wireless-n dongles that work with macs. I personally use the airlink-101 golden N.
 
Zeke D said:
You won't be able to directly replace the wireless card from your cube, but there are quite a few USB wireless-n dongles that work with macs. I personally use the airlink-101 golden N.
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Oh, Yes! I almost forget USB wireless dongles. Thank ur for ur mind!
 
Zeke D said:
You won't be able to directly replace the wireless card from your cube, but there are quite a few USB wireless-n dongles that work with macs. I personally use the airlink-101 golden N.
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THe G4 cube only has USB 1.1, so I'd have to wonder if any of the wireless dongles would work at all.
 
Regardless of whether it will work, 802.11b is 11mbit max, USB 1.1 is 12mbit max. So USB wont give you any noticeable improvement.
 
Zeke D said:
Airport express was one of the best purchases I've ever made.
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So you plugged it into the Cube via Ethernet, and the Express was used as the wireless device, providing data to the Cube via Ethernet?

Sorry for the confusing post, I've just wanted to to use my AirPort Express (or buy another one) to get my non-wireless machines online for quite some time. I could've sworn that I read that you couldn't do that, but if you can that'd be awesome.
 
alexreich said:
So you plugged it into the Cube via Ethernet, and the Express was used as the wireless device, providing data to the Cube via Ethernet?

Sorry for the confusing post, I've just wanted to to use my AirPort Express (or buy another one) to get my non-wireless machines online for quite some time. I could've sworn that I read that you couldn't do that, but if you can that'd be awesome.
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The time capsule is in the living room with the ds's modem.
The airport express wirelessly bridges the network as if it was physically connected to the tc. So yes you can use the express to make your wired machines wireless.
 
Zeke D said:
The time capsule is in the living room with the ds's modem.
The airport express wirelessly bridges the network as if it was physically connected to the tc. So yes you can use the express to make your wired machines wireless.
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Awesome. Thanks for the info.
 
I want to make less wire if it's possible, so I would rather to find a better way to solve this problem. Using Aiprot Express will plunge one more cable to the cube, it obey the design concept, less is more.
 
There is no available bus, other than ethernet, that will support the speeds you are after. Wireless-N over USB would be worthless, as it would not be able to exceed 11Mbps.

Firewire would be the only other option, but I'm not sure there is anything available that would convert into an N-adapter. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure.
 
burnout8488 said:
There is no available bus, other than ethernet, that will support the speeds you are after. Wireless-N over USB would be worthless, as it would not be able to exceed 11Mbps.

Firewire would be the only other option, but I'm not sure there is anything available that would convert into an N-adapter. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure.
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I saw Moshi has a product called iLynx FireWire 800 hub can convert firewire to several usb2.0. But I'm not sure weather USB ROOTER can run with it or not.
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daizhuo said:
I saw Moshi has a product called iLynx FireWire 800 hub can convert firewire to several usb2.0. But I'm not sure weather USB ROOTER can run with it or not.
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Notice at the top that has a USB and FireWire going to the computer. There is also nothing short of a full blown computer that can convert USB to FireWire.
 
daizhuo said:
I want to make less wire if it's possible, so I would rather to find a better way to solve this problem. Using Aiprot Express will plunge one more cable to the cube, it obey the design concept, less is more.
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I have spent a lot of time looking at this myself over the years. Unfortunately, the Airport Express is the only viable way to obtain wireless n on a Cube. My biggest regret of the Cube design is that Apple didn't fit it with an external PCMCIA slot instead of an internal airport slot.
 
Intell said:
Notice at the top that has a USB and FireWire going to the computer. There is also nothing short of a full blown computer that can convert USB to FireWire.
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The usb plugged to computer is for getting power for the hub. I believe it will give Cube USB2.0. I just confuse that it support USB Router or not.
 
daizhuo said:
The usb plugged to computer is for getting power for the hub. I believe it will give Cube USB2.0. I just confuse that it support USB Router or not.
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You are mistaken about this. As the description on Amazon (and other websites) shows, "iLynx provides four downstream USB 2.0 ports (backward compatible with USB 1.1) and two FireWire 800 ports (backward compatible with FireWire 400). " In other words, it connects by USB to the computer to act as a hub with four USB ports, and it connects by Firewire to provide two Firewire ports. Since the Cube only supports USB 1.1, the USB ports on the Moshi will only run at 1.1 speeds. That will give you roughly the equivalent of wireless G, not wireless N.
 
mike457 said:
You are mistaken about this. As the description on Amazon (and other websites) shows, "iLynx provides four downstream USB 2.0 ports (backward compatible with USB 1.1) and two FireWire 800 ports (backward compatible with FireWire 400). " In other words, it connects by USB to the computer to act as a hub with four USB ports, and it connects by Firewire to provide two Firewire ports. Since the Cube only supports USB 1.1, the USB ports on the Moshi will only run at 1.1 speeds. That will give you roughly the equivalent of wireless G, not wireless N.
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Thank u for ur note!
 
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