G3 Blue & White project - what could go wrong?

[weckart]

This seller has been hawking this card on Amazon and eBay for a while:

JUSTOP Wireless WIFI PCI Card Airport Extreme Compatible Wireless PCI Card For Apple PowerMac G3, G4, G5 (selected models only)

Features: Apple Airport Extreme card alternative, recognize as Airport Extreme 802.11G card under MAC OS Airport software compatible, no driver install required under MAC OS X Compatible with the both 802.11g / b wireless standard High-Speed Wireless data rate up to 54Mbps 54 Mbps standard ...

www.amazon.co.uk

AIRPORT EXTREME WIRELESS-G PCI CARD FOR APPLE MAC POWERMAC G3 G4 G5 | eBay

FOR APPLE POWERMAC. Fit into the PCI slot in your Powermac. If your Powermac G5 is Dual core or Quadcore model, then it's not compatible with this card! Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one, Blue & White, Desktop, Minitower, Server.

www.ebay.co.uk

I know that Sonnet had an Aria Extreme PCI card (N80211-PCI), which was 802.11n compatible. Not sure if the G3 would be the best match for it as it might have required Leopard although you could hack Tiger to work with it on a G5.

Sonnet Aria extreme nPCI Apple Mac Wlan-Karte - 3 Antennen - n PCI - Wi-Fi 802.1 | eBay

Finden Sie Top-Angebote für Sonnet Aria extreme nPCI Apple Mac Wlan-Karte - 3 Antennen - n PCI - Wi-Fi 802.1 bei eBay. Kostenlose Lieferung für viele Artikel!

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This one is pricier but if you recognise the card on your browser searches, you might get if for a more reasonable amount

Airport Wireless PCI Card for Apple Power Mac G3 G4 G5 | eBay

Fully Compatible with : Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White), G4 Power Mac (all models except Cube) or G5 (tower, PCI model only ) computers, witha spare PCI slot, running Mac OS X 10.2.6 with AirPort installer, or Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger & 10.5 Leopard.

www.ebay.com

And, as always, Lowendmac is still a worthwhile source of contemporary info for older Macs. Whether you can still pick up any of the recommended compatible cards is another matter, of course.

802.11g Extreme Wireless for Older Macs | Low End Mac

lowendmac.com

 

[feelingsupersonic]

Thanks for the info guys. Posting this now from the G3, now with AirPort. The earlier F5D7000 card was the trick! Everything is working fine over wireless G, natively in Tiger.

I'm not sure if there are any more mods I want to do, this seems like about as far as I can reasonably take a machine from 1999. The fact that I'm typing this on it is incredible to me.

Just wish I could speed up TFF a little more. I'm using the FoxPEP configuration and I'm not going to complain about the page rendering time, I just wish there was less lag when typing. Maybe this is just how it is with a G3.

 

[MacFoxG4]

Thanks for the info guys. Posting this now from the G3, now with AirPort. The earlier F5D7000 card was the trick! Everything is working fine over wireless G, natively in Tiger.

I'm not sure if there are any more mods I want to do, this seems like about as far as I can reasonably take a machine from 1999. The fact that I'm typing this on it is incredible to me.

Just wish I could speed up TFF a little more. I'm using the FoxPEP configuration and I'm not going to complain about the page rendering time, I just wish there was less lag when typing. Maybe this is just how it is with a G3.

My 500mhz iBook G3 is the same way when running TFF with FoxPEP installed.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Just wish I could speed up TFF a little more. I'm using the FoxPEP configuration and I'm not going to complain about the page rendering time, I just wish there was less lag when typing. Maybe this is just how it is with a G3.

Try IceWeasel instead and choose an older user agent.

 

[z970]

Try IceWeasel instead and choose an older user agent.

Like IE 8, or Android 2.2.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0)

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 2.2) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

 

[feelingsupersonic]

Thanks for the tip, reporting now from IceWeasel with the IE8 user agent option selected. It's a little less laggy for sure! Either way, didn't buy this Mac to surf the web with. Just cool to see what's possible.

Office 2004 is installed, this will be my HQ for beer brewing recipes and field note storage.

 

[AphoticD]

@feelingsupersonic typing on the forums is vastly improved (zero lag) if you either disable JavaScript in about:config or click the little corner gear icon on the MR text editor box to switch to plain text - you can then just use BBCode style formatting for links, bold, italics etc

 

[feelingsupersonic]

Made a quick video - posting this from the G3

 

[1042686]

Enjoyed the video! Nice job

 

[skinniezinho]

Great video! Thanks for sharing .