Mac osx panther on an ibook g3 A1005

hi i have an ibook g3 with osx tiger and i want to put mac osx panther on it cause it is kind of slow with osx tiger and i have a few questions will mac osx panther support wireless internet with an airport card installed and will it support all web sites like baisic websites please asnswer

You can do it but I have found Tiger to be faster than Panther even on a G3. So I recommend fixing what's wrong vs. downgrading.
Wireless will work but only 802.11b is supported on an iBook.
A G3 is going to be painfully slow on most websites no matter what OS you use. Those that require Flash or updated Java are not likely to work at all.

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