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Article:		Using PC Peripherals on the Mac
Subject:		wireless from usb...
Date:		2002-09-14 13:09:53
From:		anonymous2
...is a complete farce. USB relies on the processor to get bandwidth, where Apple's own Airport card uses the system bus, just get over yourself and use the airport card.

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• wireless from usb...
  2002-09-14 15:16:36  Brian Jepson | [View]
  
  
  I've used 802.11b USB adapters from D-Link and Linksys. The performance is not great, but certainly sufficient for many things.
  
  I'd like to see these supported under Mac OS X for older Macs that can't take an Airport card. Another possibility is something like the SkyLine PCI card (http://www.proxim.com/products/all/skyline/pn476/), but I haven't looked at it yet.
  
  - Brian
• wireless from usb...
  2002-09-15 21:58:45  at_sym [View]
  
  
  The SkyLine PCI card works really well on my old Power Computing PowerCurve on 9.2. The range is a little less that I get with my iBook/Airport card, but it's acceptable. The SkyLine seems to have more trouble with thick walls than a standard-issue Airport card.
  
  I don't know that there's much hope that Apple will bend over backwards to support non-Airport 802.11x adapters on OS X, but maybe Proxim will step up to the plate.