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Will original airport card work with Express? - spearmint - 11-26-2007
Also will Extreme card work with gray base station? One of the originals is busted. Card or
Airport base. Have to go to apple store to figure out which and plan for future Macbook which I think comes with extreme card.
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - Silencio - 11-26-2007
Yes, they are all cross-compatible.
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - BigGuynRusty - 11-26-2007
[quote spearmint]Also will Extreme card work with gray base station? One of the originals is busted. Card or
Airport base. Have to go to apple store to figure out which and plan for future Macbook which I think comes with extreme card. Do you mean "Will It Communicate" with the Gray BaseStation?
Then Yes.
BGnR
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - cbelt3 - 11-26-2007
yes if it's configured to be 'compatible'. Original card is 802.11b (10 MBps). Airport Express is 802.11g (54MBps) and backward compatible / capable with 802.11b if and only if it is configured that way. The old grey Airport Base Station is 802.11b.
The new Airport Extreme base stations are 802.11n (100MBps), and are backward compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b if and only if it is configured that way.
Your future MacBook will handle 802.11n, g, and b
Easiest way to see if your card on your current laptop is working is to look for other wireless access points (assuming you've got Airport port enabled on your Locations preferences).
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - GGD - 11-26-2007
Do you actually own an Airport Express, or are you just considering buying one? If you are getting an Ethernet ready network printer, then the Airport Express is probably a bad choice since it doesn't have LAN ports for you to connect the printer to. Almost any other WIFI router at half the price of an Airport Express will have 4 LAN ports.
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - spearmint - 11-27-2007
[quote GGD]Do you actually own an Airport Express, or are you just considering buying one? If you are getting an Ethernet ready network printer, then the Airport Express is probably a bad choice since it doesn't have LAN ports for you to connect the printer to. Almost any other WIFI router at half the price of an Airport Express will have 4 LAN ports.
I am a one man office/home. I only have one computer but may get second. One cable connection and usb printer is on the way. Why do I need extra LAN ports? The printer will run off the Express's usb port. Refurb Express is $79.
Since I am all by my lonesome and know nobody to assist me setting up router sticking with Apple makes my anxiety less.
In fact I have gray Airport and Macstumbler shows signal but connection quit on me over a year ago. Nothing but "cannot find server."
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - GGD - 11-28-2007
[quote spearmint][quote GGD]Do you actually own an Airport Express, or are you just considering buying one? If you are getting an Ethernet ready network printer, then the Airport Express is probably a bad choice since it doesn't have LAN ports for you to connect the printer to. Almost any other WIFI router at half the price of an Airport Express will have 4 LAN ports.
I am a one man office/home. I only have one computer but may get second. One cable connection and usb printer is on the way. Why do I need extra LAN ports? The printer will run off the Express's usb port. Refurb Express is $79.
Since I am all by my lonesome and know nobody to assist me setting up router sticking with Apple makes my anxiety less.
In fact I have gray Airport and Macstumbler shows signal but connection quit on me over a year ago. Nothing but "cannot find server."
Because you expressed the desire to have an All-In-One printer/scanner/etc device and we've been telling you that only the printer portion of it will work when connected to the USB port of the Airport Express. If the All-In-One was designed for networking over Ethernet, and it was connected to your wireless network via Ethernet then you should be able to use all of the functions over wirelessly.
But in order to do that you need an Ethernet LAN port to plug the printer into, not a USB port. The Airport Express doesn't have an Ethernet LAN port, but almost all other brand wireless routers have 4 LAN ports (and cost less than the Airport Express).
I think you might already own an older Airport Base Station, and that might already have a single LAN port which might be sufficient to hook up your network printer to as long as you didn't have anything else connected to it.
Re: Will original airport card work with Express? - Jimmypoo - 11-29-2007
second gen snow was first airport to have a second ethernet port - one in, one out.