Looking to buy a G3 AirPort card

[68kPlus]

Hi everyone,
If anyone has a G3 AirPort card for the iMac G3 I'm interested, send me a PM
Also looking for 512MB PC133 RAM.
Thanks!

 

[bibilit]

You will need the card and adapter as well.

 

[68kPlus]

You will need the card and adapter as well.

I have the adapter already, it's already installed.

 

[bibilit]

Will help to know where you are based.

 

[Quadraman]

I'm pretty sure these will not work with a modern router, at least the one that I have installed in my iMac G3 700, can't connect to my router. It can't even see the network, because my router doesn't support the early 802.11 standard that the Airport card uses. I have had to use an ethernet cable, every time I wanted to use it online. It's also dangerous to use the original Apple Airport hardware (including the original grey, UFO base station). The encryption it uses (WEP, only) is too weak, and can be hacked in less than 5 minutes. I can understand wanting one to make your iMac complete, which is the reason why I went to the trouble of tracking one down, but using it to get online could be problematic. You're a lot better off using ethernet, or an external wifi dongle that supports a later standard.

 

[GRudolf94]

They're a standard WaveLAN/Orinoco Gold card - I have to check whether Apple got a backwards-keyed connector, but the PCB is exactly the same.

 

[Quadraman]

They're a standard WaveLAN/Orinoco Gold card - I have to check whether Apple got a backwards-keyed connector, but the PCB is exactly the same.

I was always told that the metal shell that the Airport comes in, is not the same as the one that the Orinoco card uses, and the Orinoco card won't fit the Airport adapter.

 

[GRudolf94]

The board might be the same, but the shell that it comes in is not. You cannot mount an Orinoco card in the adapter for an iMac G3.

Not only you can, I've done it before. I just forget what all I had to do to it.

 

[68kPlus]

Will help to know where you are based.

Good point, I'm in Australia

 

[Unbounded_Villain]

Not only you can, I've done it before. I just forget what all I had to do to it.

I believe the first and last pins are swapped. There used to be an adapter for it.

 

[MacUp72]

I got Orinoco-based cards to work in several PowerBook 1400 (or similar) but the WEP standart is really suboptimal.
Haven't tried to use MAC filters in my Airport station thoroughly enough but it was basically working. The problem there is of course you have to add ALL your connected devices' ( iphone, iMacs, Macintoshes, iPads..) MAC addresses into the routers MAC filter list, then only these devices are allowed to enter it.

 

[Unbounded_Villain]

I got Orinoco-based cards to work in several PowerBook 1400 (or similar) but the WEP standart is really suboptimal.
Haven't tried to use MAC filters in my Airport station thoroughly enough but it was basically working. The problem there is of course you have to add ALL your connected devices' ( iphone, iMacs, Macintoshes, iPads..) MAC addresses into the routers MAC filter list, then only these devices are allowed to enter it.

It's easier to buy an old AirPort Base Station and add it to the network. That's what I've done in the past. 802.11 B/G/N is so slow that I've stuck with just using Ethernet solutions.

 

[MacUp72]

yes, I did that with an older Airport Express station