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Airport Extreme with Original Airport?
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Aug 11, 2004, 03:44 PM
 
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this - but I'm heading to the Apple Store this weekend to get a new iBook and I want to make sure I know for sure before I spend extra money on an Airport card.

At home, we have our 800 MHz iMac act as the Base Station - it uses an original Airport Card.

Now, with this new iBook, it only takes Airport Extreme, right? If so - will the Airport Extreme card be compatible with the iMac, using the original Airport card, as the base station?

Any info would be great!

Thanks in advance.
     
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Aug 11, 2004, 05:12 PM
 
Should be just fine. Airport Extreme is fully backwards compatible with Airport.
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Aug 11, 2004, 07:44 PM
 
I have this setup as well, with the difference that the 'Base G5' has the Extreme and the iBook has the regular Airport. Works great.
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Aug 12, 2004, 11:43 AM
 
You should have no problems with this setup.

We have an original ABS at work and a G4 with an airport card both of which act as base stations. Newer iBooks and PowerBooks with AE have no problem connecting to either of them.

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