Cost of airport card

does anyone know the cost of an airport card for a powerbook g4? got my logic board replaced and airport card hasn't been installed onto it?

(a) sconn69 is in Ireland.
(b) The card you are referring to is the AirPort Extreme card. Depending on sconn6's PowerBook G4 the original AirPort card may be needed.

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HT1349 I have a Power PC G5 mac. It's Dual 1.8 GHz and has 1 GB DDR SD Ram. This mac has no wireless Airport Card. Where do I get one to install in the computer so that it is able to pick up wifi signal and how much is the cost?

I have an older Power PC G5 desktop mac. It has 1GB DDR and SD Ram and Dual 1.8 GHz. The problem is there is no wifi signal. I think I need an airport card to insert in order for this model to pick up wifi. How do I know which airport card to use?

Your Power Mac G5 had an option to have an 802.11b/g AirPort Extreme Card. You basically have two choices: 1) Search the Internet for vendors that still provide this card, or 2) Get a wireless USB adapter that supports both 802.11b/g, but also the newer 802.11n standard. An example of this USB adapter can be found here.

Internal Airport card

I have read all kinds of posts on airport , but they do not answer a question or two that I have . My daughter bought an iPod in April of this year and we were able to use the airport card in the iMac to connect to the internet . Then when Snow Leopard came out I installed it on that day . Then the connection started to be on and off then I couldn't turn airport on unless I rebooted then it may or may not work . One apple support person said that I shouldn't even be able to share the internet that way . I got ahold of another person in support and she had me do some things to see if the hardware was the problem . It wasn't so she had me do a clean install of snow leopard and it has worked fine until three days ago . Now apple support says that what I am trying to do is not supported and I was more or less lucky to have had it work that way . So they say I need a router . Even my wife's net book has been doing what the ipod touch has been doing . Now my other question is even if I had a router to connect to the airport card it would have to receive and transmit , which support says it is not a transmitter . What the blank is the airport card suppose to do the , besides take up room Thank you for reading this far .

Yes I am frustrated . But don't get me wrong my iMac is a thing beautiful . What I have is DSL comes into the house and into my DSL modem then into my iMac . And I was using the internal airport card to share internet with the iPod and a net book . Right now my air port is off and I cant turn it on unless I restart . There is only one support person that helped me and I am trying to get ahold of her. And yes it was working befor for internet shareing but not now . And I live at least 150 miles from an apple store . Oh blue me spare and agony on me .
This is one response I have recieved
.Ah… Mac OS X 10.6.x: and therein, lies the problem. Apple may have dropped explicit support for what is termed Internet Sharing with the release of Snow Leopard's first update, but it is not entirely clear if this is the case. Behind the scenes, there are mixed messages. Some AppleCare support and Apple Store employees have indicated that it is no longer explicitly supported, while others have insisted that it is. The question has been escalated to Engineering, but it may be weeks before there is an official answer or, if necessary, a fix. They've done things like this before—with Address Book interaction for dialing or SMS transmission with a mobile handset, for example, with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.5—and telephony features like that one I just described have never been reintroduced.
I reiterate that as someone who deals extensively with network issues and has for more than 15 years, that using this capability is a VERY poor practice. I get that it's cheap and convenient, but it exacts a terrible cost on other users worldwide. The direct connection of any device to a 'data utility' provider is the reason that SO many machines, connected around the clock to broadband providers, have become network 'zombies' or 'botnets.' There are hundreds of thousands of them now, and these machines are almost exclusively the driver for DNS, distributed denial of service, data theft, and trojan software insertion. While it's true that such machines are typically limited to those running Windows XP or earlier, it really is a huge issue. Our electronic commerce site is routinely attacked literally hundreds of times a day.
I suggest that to protect yourself—and, in particular, that Windows OS based netbook—as well as others, that you purchase a suitable hardware router and gateway with wireless capabilities, and that you enable WPA security at a minimum.
Believe me, a single successful attack against an XP machine, even once detected, will cost you many times the dollar cost of a typical gateway, in just a single incident. Not to mention the ongoing cost of the loss of personal information, such as credit card data, bank account and other financial information, and loss due to your passwords being 'lifted' by a nefarious program inserted into your network.
I appreciate that you don't expect passers-by to log onto your wireless network in a rural area, but—by far—the greatest threat is being hit by robotic queries from the outside edge of your net, not the inside edge. If you choose to install a router and look at its logs after attaching and configuring it, you will be shocked at the volume of unsolicited queries or 'attacks' of your IP address.

Adding Airport card to 867mhz Ti Powerbook?

Hi,
I have a 867mhz Titanium Powerbook that i need to add an Airport card too, how do do this and what will it (roughly) cost?

Just an added note to eww's info: I checked ebay a couple of months ago, and people were selling supposedly new/sealed cards for over $100, used a little under that.
Make sure you get an ORIGINAL AP card, NOT an Extreme or the newer version. You may also want to consider a PCMCIA wireless card (fits in PC card slot). Most people get better distance, they're cheaper, and you can get the "g" style (54mbps instead of 11). The drawback is that it takes up that slot and sticks out the side 3/4 of an inch or so. Some brands work seamlessly with Apple's built-in AP software.

Put in the wrong airport card, fried my G5, is it worth fixing?

Maybe more importantly can i trust what this repair shop tells me?
After Apple told me my computer was too old to work on and scouring these boards i thought i was installing the right airport card and apparently I didn't.
Immediately the power went out on the machine and it would not power back on.
The repair shop told me that i need a new power supply and motherboard so i ordered and paid for those. ($175+)
Now they called and said my superdrive in one of the two harddrives is shot and i need a new one of those.
And that the drive that works isn't recognizing Leopard, the OS I had on there.
I was already thinking of getting a new machine before i took this in and it is getting to the point where this might cost as much as a new machine.
Assuming I am willing to walk away from the data on there (which was the only reason i was taking this in -- to get my data), should I just give up on the G5 and get a new computer?
Also, can I trust what these guys are telling me? Is it possible the airport card fried the power supply, motherboard and both harddrives?
Seems extreme to me, but then again I'm the idiot that put the wrong card in.
It just makes me mistrust them when its one thing after the other after the other.
Sure wish they would've taken me at the genius bar...
Thanks for any thoughts,
James

Hi James,
Though I love my G5, I'd cut my losses now & sell the PSU And logic board, I've seen either one go for more than a whole used G5.
Impossible to tell about what they're saying, but it certainly is possible for everything electrically connected to be adversely affected. It's like a bunch of people holding hands, shock one & they all could get it.

Broken airport card and i can't dish out £220 to fix it

Hi, my airport card has just broken, the range has been halved so at the moment i have to hug my wireless box to get signal. As the title says i cant afford the repair, its an old computer out of warrenty and im a student without surplus cash. I was wondering does anyone know any cheaper ways off fixing this? wireless USB sticks that are compatible with older macbooks?
Many thanks

The Asus WL-167g wireless USB adapter works with my old iBook as well as my new MacBook. I tried it just to be sure, although of course I use the Airport card on the MacBook. If you use it, remember to turn off Airport.
The Asus WL-167g costs $17 at New Egg. You can download the Mac driver here:
http://usa.asus.com/search.aspx?searchitem=1&searchkey=wl-167g
Bob N.

Two versions of original Airport card?

I have only today learned that the original Airport card came in two versions: 661-2219, which does not have the capability of accessing a WPA-protected router, and 661-2549, which does. My question is, how do you distinguish between these two cards, visibly or otherwise?

It was not 'suddenly discovered,' as we have made this claim for many years. I don't understand how it is inconsistent with what you insist to be the case, as…
• we refer only to the A/B revisions—which you agree do not support WEP beyond 40 bits—to be incapable of supporting WPA, as they shipped from the factory
• we sell such cards with the lower level of capability for use in pre-OS X 10.3 installations with the clear caveat that such cards, as sold, don't support WPA or—if you will—are not guaranteed to, and should be expected to, support WPA
It's not in our financial interest to apply firmware to the older cards which we periodically encounter and we don't claim that it has been done, as we don't test each card specifically for such capabilities. Why bother to, when they are sold indicating that they do not support WPA? We don't speak for others in the industry, only for ourselves. And, we attempt to convey simple, accurate information. In this case, we think we achieve that in a way that lowers what might otherwise be heightened user expectations and avoid unintended outcomes.
Since the higher cost cards are priced at a level consistently at or lower than most vendors and carry a one-year warranty, and the less capable early cards are discounted from that level yet carry the same warranty, we think that they pair offer better overall value to most users under most circumstances. That said, they can be less expensive—or, more expensive—than some unsupported product sold on eBay. But, ours are tested and warranted, and the price has remained consistent across low and high availability situations, something that we again believe provides better overall value to buyers.
Sure, they might—in fact—support it, in some circumstances. But, we would be inundated with complaints from users wanting such support if the individual card they purchased did not support it when they received that specific card. While Apple claims that the original AirPort base station never supported WPA, you need only put a WPA capable replacement card in it and use the appropriate software to gain access to this feature. Components other than the card itself in an AirPort base station can be reasonably characterized as passive. It is the card itself that determines the capabilities of the base station.
We're currently out of the original cards, or I would arrange to ship you one of each to test in your own environment to satisfy your concerns. In our case, testing cards at one point for such capabilities reasonably satisfied us that M7600LL/A and B cards did not support WPA 'out of the box' and so we've simply pointed that out.
It's akin to saying that original iMacs based upon a G3 processor do not support the installation of Mac OS X, unless and until a suitable firmware update is applied. And that statement also is true, given that most shipped pre-OS X and without the installed firmware.
How do I put this? Most alternative suppliers in this industry are chumps: they know little, and care even less. It's all about 'turn and burn' to them, and they seek almost exclusively to maximize their opportunity. Despite their claims, they could care less about customers. You only have to look around the web to figure that out…
We've been quietly engaged in this market in the background for nearly twenty years, so we know a thing or two about the other players.
We find it too cumbersome to explain the capabilities of the original AirPort cards in general beyond what we describe, and not economical to upgrade the firmware of such cards and attempt to sell them as the second generation of that product line, thereby creating an instantaneous identification conflict.
When we receive and qualify additional cards, I will get ahold of you in The Lounge if you are interested in setting up a 'lab test' on your own premises, or modifying the A or B card by applying a firmware update.
To some degree, the argument is moot: Apple no longer supports the original card at all, and the second generation of the product line remains supported only in California, and only for a limited remaining time period.

No Airport Card - Reinstall OSX?

I have a 2009 Macbook Pro that has seemingly always had airport card issues. Whenever it powered down (my kids are super bad at taking off with the laptop and not connecting it to a power source), most of the time the airport card would disappear and I'd have to shock the PRAM to get it back. This worked swimmingly until about a month ago. I have tried several things online to try to get the airport card back, but it isn't showing up at all.
I took my macbook to a non-Mac certified repair place because it was closer than going to a mac store. (Of note, my mac is out of warranty and the nearest mac store is 2-1/2 hours away, and the nearest certified repair place is 2 hours away.)
They charged me a fee to run diagnostics and then told me that the card is fine and the wireless is fine, but the osx is corrupt and they will have to reinstall the OSX to fix it. They said it would wipe all my current information off the computer, but that for another $50 they could back up the computer and migrate the information back over.
It confused me that reinstalling the OSX might fix the issue. I haven't seen this as a fix anywhere online. The guy I talked to didn't sound confident and really dismissed me when I tried to understand this proposed fix. Because I have (or think I have) the OSX install disk, I chose to pick up my Mac and do more research.
Which brings me to the Apple Support Community. Before I try to figure out reinstalling, does this make sense as the next step? Are there other things I can do or try to diagnose what is really going on. Of note, the laptop works fine on an ethernet cord plugged in to the router. Just doesn't show an airport card.

After trying various ways involving restarting the mac and holding command+alt+P+R and other various ways I decided to open up the mac and take a look myself. Turns out it was just unplugged. It's a very small connector right next to the DVD drive. It looked a little loose and turns out it was. I reconnected it, started up the computer and my wifi worked immediately! No need to contact apple or take it in for a costly repair.

IMac G5 needs Airport Card

I just discovered my iMac G5 doesn't have an Airport card so I can't get on the internet with it. Does anyone know where I could get one? All help greatly appreciated. A workaround?

Thanks Meriam! I didn't realize they were so expensive but if I want to get my G5 on the internet I guess Steve gets another bite of my stash. Think I'll play around with Firewire transfer from my Intel iMac SL first though. Any suggestions?
My reason for having the G5 (which I got at a "bargain" ) is to have a machine I could use to try to learn BSD and Unix without the danger of blowing away all the files on my "real" computer. My "bargain" has already cost me the price of a rebuilt. But looking on the bright side, "it's the problems that we learn from" and I've learned loads from this unit.

Panther - Airport card disappeared

1. Recently we installed a new iMac on our home net using the same wireless modem we were using for our Emac. . After it was done, our old Emac which worked perfectly up til then cannot join the netwrork. It says there is no airport card. If you go to network it shows airport is off, you cannot turn it on. Anyone have an idea what might have happened to cause eMac to lose the airport card? Threads in discussions on airport have suggested zapping the PRAM but my understanding is that in Panther the Network settings were not stored in the PRAM.
2. Can OSX Leopard beinstalled on a old (2002) Emac? Would installing the new system possibly revive the airport card?

Alas, the current AirPort Extreme cards are unsuitable.
If you're confident, you may want to check to see if the AirPort card currently installed has become dislodged, there's no reason, other than a drop (or someone removing the card) that it would stop working.
Otherwise you have three choices,
- live with an Ethernet connection, but this might not be possible.
- an original AirPort card, from somewhere like eBay. They used to cost a fortune, more than the value of the eMac, but they're reasonable now.
- a wireless router, that supports WDS (wireless distribution system), or wireless bridging in particular (which is a subset of WDS). And preferably a wireless 'n' model over a wireless 'g' version.
You would then connect this by a short length of Ethernet cable (probably come in the box with the wireless router) and configure it to operate as a wireless bridge. This would mean the eMac would use its Ethernet connection to communicate with the WDS wireless router, which would then communicate wirelessly with whatever wireless you are trying to connect to with the original AirPort.
A second hand original AirPort card might set you back $30-$60, a WDS wireless router (from new) might be $70-$120. The AirPort Express is a $99 WDS wireless router, BUT it has a minimum OS requirement to configure it, OSX 10.4. Most manufacturers make WDS wireless routers, Netgear, Linksys, Belkin and Zyxel are adequate.
If you go for the AirPort Express (or Time Capsule which offers similar functionality but more demanding OS requirement) it has first rate instructions available on the Apple site. No matter which (if any) model you get, there would be adequate instructions once you understand that you are setting up the router as a "remote" WDS (other choices are "main" or "relay").
AirPort Express main page is here:
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/
You may want the designing networks manual here (the link is on the page above):
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DesigningAirPort_Networks10.5-Windows.pdf
In particular, the WDS setup section starting at page 42, with the exact step-by-step details on page 44 - called "To set up additional remote devices".
But here's hoping that you find either the card loose or the wireless antenna (thin black cable with screw in connector to attach to the card) loose when you open the eMac and check it. All you need is a Philips screwdriver and the manual:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2596
Let us know what you find.

Airport Card (802.11b) won't connect to network

Hello all...i've got another bizarre problem i can't seem to find a solution to.
I'm running a PMG4 2x867 MDD, with an older AirPort (801.11b), and i'm attempting to share an internet connection with a friend who lives in my building almost directly above me...y'know...split the cost and everything so everyone's happy. My problem is, after he gave me (and another friend) the password (13 characters, WEP), only i am unable to connect. The signal strength is good and all, but whenever i try to connect, i get the same error after a very brief pause: "...password is not correct..." Not, "...there was an error connecting..." i would suspect a signal issue if it was simply "...there was an error connecting..." i've double-checked that the password i'm using is correct, my other friend (using a newer, Intel Mac) has no trouble connecting, and i've tried everything from putting quotes around the password to converting the plain-text to hex and entering it. This is extremely frustrating. Anyone have any ideas, or had this problem before?

Okay, some progress:
After hours of googling and fussing with settings on the D-Link and Airport card, I discovered that this problem has a history with Apple/D-Link users, and one must set the "preamble length" in the router setup to "long." The default setting is "short."
Did that, and I was able to get through, but noticed that the signal range is very short, maybe 30 feet. Totally goes out in the other room. This never happened with the MacSense external card. I tried fooling around with the D-Link antennae and now have cut the signal altogether again and can't get back in.
I think it's time to buy an Airport base station, whatever the latest incarnation of it is. It's pretty frustrating know that there's probably some solution but it's buried deeply. Any ideas on how to get this operating more smoothly would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any help,
Carlos Alden

How can I change my internal airport card from G to N ???

I just want to know how can I change my internal airport card from G to N and how much that cost ?

Robertito wrote:
I just want to know how can I change my internal airport card from G to N and how much that cost ?
The description of your machine (2 ghz MacBook) can describe maybe three different generations of the original polycarbonate MacBook.
If your machine is a Core 2 Duo MacBook that came out before the late 2007 models - $2.49 Canadian. It's all done in software, and won't work on the Core Duo models. The equivalent enabling software also comes on a disc if you get the latest 802.11n Apple AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express base stations.
http://store.apple.com/ca/product/D4141ZM/A
Before you buy, you can check to see if your machine already has it.

Slow finder start up at airport card boot

Hi,
For some reason my macbook pro 17" is extremely slow at start-up, when it gets to the part where it's loading the airport and battery icon (after logging in as a user). Any internet related applications (ichat, safari, entourage) are also slow to start if I try it soon after booting up. I'm also having problems connecting to the internet via the airport. The signal is at full strength, but there is no internet connection. This was all working the day before yesterday, and when I plug in directly to the cable internet connection via ethernet, the internet works.
One other catch is that I'm in a foreign country and don't have any startup CDs/DVDs with me, and it would be cost-prohibitive for me to call applecare (which I'd really like to do!). Also couldn't figure out how to contact applecare via ichat (there are still some luddites among us, apologies). Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Macbook Pro 17"
MacbookPro 1,2
Intel Core Duo
2.16 Ghz processor
Memory: 2 ghz
bus speed: 667 Mhz
Wireless connection via: D-link, airplus G, 2.4 ghz to cable modem
I've tried the following:
SLOW FINDER:
Repair disk permissions - didn't seem to do much
Switching user accounts - same slowness with my other account
Downloading 10.4.9 update - problems downloading, says it sent the file to the trash and I can retrieve it and try again. Did that, but it didn't work.
Resetting PRAM at start up
AIRPORT:
downloaded software updates
tried plugging directly into internet connection, and that works fine.
Read something about reseating the airport card but can't find instructions on how to do it for a Macbook Pro 17".
Macbook Pro 17"
2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo
2 GB Mhz DDR2 SDRam
2ghz Memory
Bus Speed 667 Mhz
Boot Rom Version: MBP12.0061.B03
10.4.8 Tiger

You should never let your hard drive get less than 15% empty. This number is an arbitrary number that most have found to be the maximum you can have and still have a relatively smooth riding system. That may not directly affect wireless internet, but the speed of caching for the browser gets harder as it has lack of space to write to when it gets too full. The speed of startup is also affected as caches are written when the startup happens.

Buying an Airport Card

Hey everyone,
I have a Mac Mini 1.25 Ghz, PowerPC without an airport card.
I'm wondering what airport card I need to install into the Mac Mini as I am going to move it into my room for use with my Wireless network at home.
I take it it's just the Airport Extreme Card?
Thanks in advance for any and all help you can give.
-Dan

Apple sold (in theory ONLY to Apple Approved Service Providers) an Airport with Bluetooth upgrade kit for the first minis that didn't have it fitted as standard. The notion was that those who wanted it could take their minis to approved service center and pay for the kit and the labor costs to install it.
Some of the upgrade kits found their way into retail outlets and thus were available (typically around $99) for owners to buy and install themselves - though installation is not all that easy. The kit comprises an Airport Extreme card, a small 'riser' card to which the AE card fits and which then connects to the logic board, an Airport antenna, and a Bluetooth antenna.
You might want to take a look at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00081A2UO/yahoo-ce-20/ref=nosim for availability of this kit and some information about it. From time to time I have seen them appear in other locations too - googling 'mac mini airport kit' or something similar may bring you other potential vendors. It's worth noting however that while these kits were quite plentiful a year ago, since no mini now ships without airport and bluetooth, and those that did were some time ago, the probability is that the upgrade kits will be decreasingly available as time passes.

Which Airport Card For eMac USB2.0

Hi All
I am just about to purchase a eMac USB2.0 and I am very confused about which type of Airport Card to install. I have read in some places that it takes the original Airport Card and then on this Apple site it says that this model is Airport Extreme ready.
Which one do I need?
Many thanks
GArry
Message was edited by: Garry Westwell

Every reference I have says its the extreme version.
However, before you buy, find out if the serial number of that eMac falls in the ranges noted in this Apple article:
http://www.apple.com/sg/support/emac/repairextensionprogram/
A significant number of machines within these ranges suffer from a logic board problem that is impractically expensive to fix unless you have little or no money in the computer. The Apple program that fixed this at no charge expired last summer, so you would be on your own for the significant cost of repair.
The issue affected USB 2.0 eMacs with 1.0 and 1.25 G processors. I've never heard it affecting the later 1.42gHz machines. Hopefully you are looking at a 1.42 eMac, as they are fine machines with "new-enough" video chipsets to support Core Image technology used by OS 10.4 and later.

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