Wireless Internet With iMac G3

The short answer is yes. the long answer depends somewhat on whcih iMac you have.

All iMAc 400 mhz and above (and some 350 mhz iMacs) have an airport card slot. So if you can get ahold of an original apple airport card and an airport card adaptor, you can just use that. Airport cards aren't made anymore (airport extreme won't work), so they can be a bit pricey and hard to find. lacomputercompany.com use to be a source of them.

The second option will work on any iMac, actually, on any computer period. You can just get an external wireless bridge. Its best to go with an ethernet based one. USB bridges need drivers, whose support for macs range from flaky to non-existent. Ethernet doesn't require drivers. I use a linksys WET11 myself for this purpose, works great. Linksys also makes the WET54. Belkin, dlink and macsense also make such adaptors. The downside to these adaptors si that they are external, so they take up a bit of space, and they need to plug into a power outlet (except the macsense one, whcih uses USB to get its power but connects via ethernet for the networking side of things). You also will see many of these adaptors listed as game console adaptors, since they are commonly used to get game consoles online wirelessly.

So, let me try to understand this. W/ this wireless bridge, one can plug it into the ethernet port, plug tha thing in, configure and you have access to the internet? My situation, my job has a strong wireless signal and I doubt they will let me plug into their modem. However, anyone can use their wireless as a guest. Have iMacG3 with OSx. I have been told (by computer sales person) that the wireless bridge needs to plug into something else besides the computer. If that is so, why does it have an antenna?

I don't know what else it could plug into, so I don't know what the salesperson was referring to. The wireless bridges I'm familiar with just plug into your computer, plug into a power outlet and that's it. You configure it through your web browser (the exact manner may vary depending on who manufacturers the device) and then you should be able to connect. There are some confiuration oddities with these things (your internet settings are different when configuring the device then when you are connected to the internet), but there's nothing too out of the ordinary about them. I thihnk maybe the sales person was confusing the device with something else, like a router or something.

I have intalled the airport card with adaptor and now my imac doesn't work . . . it turns on, yet no sounds heard (you know, the usual Mac startup sound) and no screen is seen. I hooked up the antenna to the card, found the slot, and installed. Nothing. I've double and triple checked. Help.

WET 11 Wow, this is great! I can't wait to try this. I got the DLink 122 confused with the G122 and have had a hard time helping my mom with her iMac G3 and was ready to give up. If this work like I think it will it should be great!

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I have a iMac G3 Summer 2000 with OS 10.9.3, will it work with an Airport Express? All I want to do is use it for wireless internet as we (my girlfriend) also have a PC laptop... unfortunately. LOL

The AirPort Express (AX) is a wireless router.



If you install an original AirPort card and AirPort card adapter in your iMac you will be able to connect to the wireless network created by an AX.



Your iMac is NOT compatible with the new AirPort Extreme card.

I thought I already have an airport card with my iMac? In my iMac specs it says Airport ready...
I cannot find the airport card at the apple online store.
How and where do you install this airport card on your computer? After I install the airport card I will be able to use the airport express?
Thanx!

AirPort ready only indicates that it has a slot into which you can install the appropriate card.

You can run System Profiler to determine if indeed an AirPort card is installed.

The original AirPort card is no longer sold by Apple and hasn't been for quite some time. The cards are still available on eBay and some 3rd party retailers ( MegaMacs.com happens to have some).

You will also need the AirPort card adapter shown above.