RichB

Discovered last night my mums neighbour has Broadband... She would like to be able to share the connection and the neighbour (almost certainly ) won't mind.

Problem is, Mothers son supplied her computer and it's only a crusty old G3 desktop, it has PCI/USB card but obviously not airport card.
Does anyone know of any PCI wireless cards that will work in G3ws/9.x?

I have an old base station kicking around and have been trying to find out if this could be used to 'join' or 'extend the range' of the neighbours BB WiFi router without success.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Is it possible with a new Aiport Express (is this OSX only?)

Simply buying a new Mac is not really a viable option.

Thanks,
Rich

class_A

WDS (Wireless Distribution System) only works with the newer AirPort Extreme 802.11b/g enabled base stations, not the earlier "graphite" or "snow" 802.11b models.

Does your neighbour have an existing WiFi network in place? If so, you may be able to connect with the antenna supplied on the card or with a simple antenna mod.

Belkin make a 802.11g PCI WiFi card with Mac drivers, model no. D5D7000

HTH,
Alex

RichB

You aure Alex? Cant find any info on that model number...
They all start with an F...

If a new APBS will do it then it might be the way forward... Mine is graphite.

class_A

That would be because I can't type F5D7000 is the one, here's a Froogle link

RichB

Cheers, but it only says 10.x, 10.x runs just about ok old my old 333 G3 laptop but this is a 266 beige G3...

How about any routers that will do this?

What is the term used to describe this process, bridging seems to imply joining wired to wireless.

class_A

I mentioned WDS (Wireless Distribution System) earlier which is a "standard" for connecting two access points together but I don't have any experience of it.

Apparently some vendors have gone their own way in solving this problem but there are a few pages which talk of connecting a Linksys WRT54G (which you might have to patch with an alternative firmware) to an AirPort Express thus wirelessly bridging the two wired networks connected to the LAN ports on each device (The wired Ethernet port on the Express functions either as a LAN or a WAN port).

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardw...texpress.ars/4
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...3092~mode=flat

From my brief searching, I don't think an APExpress can act as a "host" for a WDS based network it can only extend a WiFi network.

RichB

The neighbour has a BT Voyager modem, funnily enough, not sure which model...
Thanks for the info though Alex.