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Is there anyway to get wireless internet on my emac?

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aivzdog

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I have wireless on my macbook but thats cuz it has a wireless connection/Airport.

But my emac doesnt...I dont think.
Is there anyway I can get wireless connection on it?

Anna
 
1) Get the wireless card for your eMac and install it. Varies with model, mine takes an Airport Extreme card.

2) Use a USB to wireless adapter.

3) Get a wireless router (or whatever the correct term is) - I think the Airport Express is one - and wire up the Ethernet from the eMac to the router thing. The router thing acts will route to the wireless network.
 
I have a desktop at home that has no wireless chip, i just connect it to an external wireless adaptor and it works just fine
 
huh?

ADent said:
1) Get the wireless card for your eMac and install it. Varies with model, mine takes an Airport Extreme card.

2) Use a USB to wireless adapter.

3) Get a wireless router (or whatever the correct term is) - I think the Airport Express is one - and wire up the Ethernet from the eMac to the router thing. The router thing acts will route to the wireless network.
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Please don't do #3. Just don't.
 
I dont know what you guys are talking about.

I have an emac.
I also have a router that works for my macbook and my moms mac.
Thing is my emac has no airport thing.

Anna
 
Yikes Anna, just get the original Airport Card (expensive) or the Airport Extreme Card (roughly $20) depending on your eMac and install it behind the optical drive door. It's super easy. There's plenty of online info on this, especially on Apple.com. Good luck!
 
aivzdog said:
I dont know what you guys are talking about.

I have an emac.
I also have a router that works for my macbook and my moms mac.
Thing is my emac has no airport thing.
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The eMac has built in Airport support, but you need the matching Airport card installed.

Which eMac do you have?
 
I add wireless to my G4 Mac Mini by getting a Linksy WRT54g wireless router and install DD-WRT fireware onto it and created a 'Wireless Bridge" with it. That way you connect the wireless router to your ethernet port and the wireless router becomes a really advance wireless card.

I can give you detailed instructions on how to do that if you are interested in going that route.

Thanks
-iGrant
 
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