Airport Card Question

jmedina

jmedina

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In a few weeks I am probably going to purchase a used ibook g3. It is going to ship with a original airport card. Which runs at the 802.11b speed. I currently have a Trendnet 802.11G router with a PC connected to it. Will this work?
 
It should, i didnt look up ur specs or anything, nbut most routers transmit b/g according to the settings which are user configurable
 
Yes, im 99.9% sure that the a,b,g thing is all backwards compatible, so if you have a wireless g router it means it will support wireless a and b also. Either way you should be fine with that setup.
 
The maximum bandwidth on a wireless B card is 11mps, but your more likely get around 4 or 5, which is still good really unless of course you on 10 or 20mb broadband and insist on getting top speeds.
 
Homenet said:
Yes, im 99.9% sure that the a,b,g thing is all backwards compatible, so if you have a wireless g router it means it will support wireless a and b also. Either way you should be fine with that setup.
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802.11a is completely different from the other wireless standards, as it operates at 5.4GHz vs 802.11b/g/n which runs at 2.4GHz.

So to answer the original question, 802.11b is backwards compatible with 802.11g/n devices, however 802.11a is not backwards compatible with any other standard.
 
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