Wireless G PCI Cards for Quicksilver

A lot off people seem to have good experience with this adaptor.

But it is quite expensive. A cheaper solution is a USB stick.

Asus has a great USB wireless solution, the WL-167g.

After the Airport Card in my iBook stopped working i bought this Asus adaptor. I'm really happy with it. If you go to the dowload page off Asus, there you will find a really nice working driver, called Wrieless utility! I am using this stick now for about 1 year and it is performing just as well as the original Airport Extreme Card.

Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem. (see button's above this message)

Quoted: So is that saying typically I could expect to get 18 Mbps with this card 75 meters away from the airport basestation (or other wireless G router)?

Theoretically yes. Only this has been measured without any wall's or anything like that, just in open space. Also the wireless accespoint has to be able to send this distance.

The USB stick i mentioned above does perform here better than the original Airport Card in my iBook. But ik don't know if it will perform better than the Sonnet PCI card. Because the Sonnet card has a much bigger antenna, so it seems logic to me it has a stronger signal.

The speed should be exact the same. Both adaptor's are 54 Mbps, so should also be able to run at 54 Mbps. Ofcours you should not be to far away from the accespoint.

Here i have a Linksys WAP54G accespoint and my iBook with the Asus adaptor. At this moment i have a 54 Mbps connecton. There is about 15 meter between the accespoint and the iBook and two brick wall's.

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Anne, can you tell me where you got your Asus USB wireless stick? I went to the site link you mentioned in your post, but it doesn't seem you can buy the item there, nor does it mention price.

Thanks!

btw, I have a Netopia PCI card in my G4 laptop, which works well, for the most part. But now I need to get a G4 desktop online and the Asus sounds like the (low cost! My Netopia card cost $40 about a year ago ...) solution I'm looking for ...

B. Occhiogrosso

G4 laptop and desktop Mac OS X (10.3)

Further to my earlier email, I did find a local vendor for the W167g USB wireless adaptor, and did all the research so you Mac users with 10.2 or above can know that indeed, you can use this product to go wireless! Desktop OR laptop. I got mine very reasonably from zipzoomfly.com. (and they're local, too! : ) Thank you Anne, for making this suggestion. I've had much trouble in the past trying to make my Macs wireless with a PC set up (PCI card and Linksys router) and I'm here to tell everyone it can be done! Asus seems to support Mac users going wireless, which is a *very rare find,* trust me, so make sure you bookmark their site. They've been invaluable to me!

Regards -
Barbara O.

G4 laptop and desktop Mac OS X (10.3)

Hi,
The other way to increase WiFi reception from your brother's house is to have him install better antennas on his Linksys router. The Linksys High Gain Antenna Kit for TNC Connectors HGA7T allow 2/3x the transmission distance. They fit these Linksys routers: WRT54GS, WRT54G, WAP54G, BEFW11S4 and WAP11. You can find them on Fleabay for $20-30.

My linksys with those antenna is visible in my neighbors house that is two up and across the street. NOTE: Encryption is a good thing, use it if you can.

Another PCI wireless card to look at is the BUFFALO WIRELESS WLI2-PCI-G54, about $40 if you shop. I have one in my Sawtooth AGP and it's recognized as an Apple Airport card, works perfect. Do a search in this Forum using it's name (above), lots of info.

Regards,
Dave

Hi,
Yes,that's the one.
I have had it connected to an Airport Snow and two different Linksys WRT54G wireless routers.

They are cheaper here:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7442564&productCategoryId=pcmcat25 300050002&type=product&id=1125238693622

Good reviews here as well:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833162115

There is some talk that the Broadcom chip is the main difference as to whether it is Mac compatible or not. There may be some of these with the Atheros chip out there, and they don't work as well.

There is a Driver that is supposed to make almost ANY PCI wireless card work, look here:
http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/wirelessformac.html

Regards,
Dave

It is the Broadcom chip that makes a difference.

I've used the Belkin F5D7001 card, bought from Newegg.com for around $45. It's version 2, has the Broadcom chip. Installed in a G4 running 10.4.8 and Airport 4.2. No drivers needed-G4 detected it as an Airport Extreme immediately. The card is known as the G+ desktop-supposedly boosts the speed to faster than the regular G, but that also depends on your router.