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Sep 1, 2015 9:56 PM in response to Don330by Jan Hedlund,It would of course be possible to use an older base station (set to WEP, if that is what the iBook can work with) wired directly to the Internet (or perhaps in some kind of wired arrangement in combination with the WPA2 router). However, it would still mean that the WEP link is the weakest, and that an intruder may be able to break the security between the iBook and the old base station.
An alternative solution, with direct wireless access to your existing router, could possibly be a wireless Ethernet bridge connected to the Ethernet port of the iBook. A wireless Ethernet bridge does not require special drivers, and can thus be used under almost any operating system. Modern wireless Ethernet bridge devices (Netgear WNCE2001 and Linksys WET610N are merely two examples) offer WPA2 security.