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Are Airport and Airport-extreme Mac-to-Mac compatible?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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I have a FP iMac with an Airport card and a PB 12" with an Airport Extreme card. Are they supposed to be able to connect via a computer-to-computer network?
I've tried many different things and I can't get them to talk to one another. The PB g4 has been used in hotspots so the AE card works fine. However the iMac hasn't been used and so I don't know if something is wrong with the card or the antenna. Mac OS X seems to detect that its working properly.
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Join Date: May 2002
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It should work fine. What is the purpose of connecting them? Sharing files and an Internet connection to the iMac and files?
Basically you just say create computer to computer network on one of the machines, and then select that on the other one.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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It's not working. When I create a network on the iMac (the file and internet share server) the Powerbook cannot see it.
The Powerbook has been used in hotspots so the AE card is fine there. The airport card in the iMac however was installed unprofessionally. But OS X recognizes it just fine. Could there be a problem there? Maybe the antenna wasn't connected properly? Would that have an effect on it?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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By "unprofessionally," do you mean "not by a professional," or "by someone that was all thumbs and drooled into the machine?" Either way, it's possible for the antenna cable to either not be fully seated or to come loose entirely. In fact, it's possible for this to happen to a machine that has its card "professionally installed." 
By all means, it's worth your while to check the installation of the card. Fortunately, Apple has knowledge base articles on installing AirPort cards in just about everything that will accept one, so you can go right to the source and get the detailed (and illustrated) instructions you'll need to look into that card's situation.
{{SPOILER!!}} It's not at all hard to get at any iMac's AirPort socket. The "interesting part" is exactly how you go about it-some models have you open a simple little door on the back, while others have you use a paperclip to open a little latch that... You get the picture. Just make sure you wash your hands before and after, and let us know what you find out.
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Glenn -----
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Is there a way to check to see if the airport is fully functional with some special software tool? I know that OS X recognizes it perfectly but I don't know if the problem lies within the physical installation or the card itself. It was bought new from Apple. But the guy who installed it didn't "touch" metal to ground himself or didn't use gloves or anything. Could that be a problem?
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I'm having the same problem and I know that BOTH Airport cards work. I can connect to the router and surf the web off both machines, but I can't fileshare, rendezvous etc.
Check if you can ping one machine from the other. I can do that; I just don't "see" the machines in the finder.
I'm using a D-Link DI-614+ router and I'm trying to connect a PowerBook with an Airport card to an iBook G4 with an Airport Extreme card.
(Last edited by Troll; Jan 16, 2004 at 07:16 AM.
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