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Upgrade Ti 1ghz to Airport Extreme
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I have a 4 month old Ti with the Airport card. I would like to get the Buffalo card that works with Airport Extreme. Will I have to remove the airport card from the Ti or can both cards coexist in the laptop and I some sort of way choose which card to use? Any advice would be appreciated.
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Are you sure it's a Ti? Not an aluminum? If it's a Ti you will need to remove your Airport card and get a PCMCIA 802.11g card for your Powerbook. If it's an Aluminum Book then you already have Airport Extreme.
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If it is a TiBook, I don't think you need to actually remove the AirPort card to use an additional PCMCIA 802.11g card. It'll have its own network settings and such...just turn off AirPort or set the PCMCIA's stuff to a higher priority (the how-to steps of which escape me right now).
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Thanks for your reply-it is a Ti and I have purchased the Buffalo Air Station card # WLI-CB-G54A
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Originally posted by raydemel:
Thanks for your reply-it is a Ti and I have purchased the Buffalo Air Station card # WLI-CB-G54A
Great! Please report back on how it goes!
You use the locations in Network Prefs to turn off various interfaces. So, using the Show: Network Port Configurations (drop down menu) you turn off the internal card and turn on the PC card. Just be sure to drag the active device to the top of the pack.
Basically, you'll probably find that you'll dread using the internal airport card, because the range and throughput of the external card will be so much higher. For me, using a Cisco Aironet meant that I had excellent reception on the patio, where previously the airport card couldn't even see the base station. On top of that, the bandwidth was excellent as well (you can check your bandwidth throughput at any number of speed test sites--do a search on Google.)
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Yep, report please. I'd be interested how it goes.
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