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Firewire Wireless Adapter?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New York
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Is there such a thing as a Firewire Wireless Adapter? I know there are USB Wireless Adapters, but I never use the Firewire ports on my MBP, so I figured I'd see what I could do. Thanks in advance
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Jose, CA
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No. Why waste a high-speed port with a considerably lower speed application?
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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No, there's no market for it and it would be pretty pricey.
What's wrong with your built in wifi? Or are you looking for something like cellular/3G/WiMax data?
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I'm basically just looking for a use for the Firewire ports and figured an external wireless adapter would be something that fills that need. That and I have both USB ports filled (wired mouse & external HDD). Anyway, thanks for the input.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Any decent USB 2.0 hub will allow you to run both the hard drive and a USB WiFi dongle on the same machine port. The wired mouse is another possibility to share a port with the dongle. Oh, and WiFi dongles are frequently very affordable, even the ones with Mac drivers.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New York
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Yes, I can add a hub, but I don't want to. I want to use the ports already attached to the MBP.
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