Posted on 05/07/2008 6:57:34 PM PDT by HAL9000
“What?” he said innocently.
I sure as hell hope you aren't someone who is responsible for IT people. If you are, then I'm sure the company you work for is certainly looking for IT help since you have none. lol
No, age isn’t the problem, but there’s no sense in comparing old to new.
As for your G5 - is it completely stock including an *Apple* Airport card? Which card is it? Did you check to make sure it wasn’t one of the defective Airport cards they recalled a few years back?
I’m not really planning to buy any Microsoft products in the near future, anyway.
Zune is OK, I was commenting that if they put in a copyright filter I would not be interested.
There are many media players out there, some better and some worse than iPod. I still run a Rio pmp300 (as well as a couple others).
Not going to get into it, but my experience is that wifi’s are the easiest to trouble shoot and fix.
Then your experience is sadly limited.
That's generally true, but I've seen cases where some wireless devices just don't work that well, if at all.
It better not be, the Apple store installed the Airport Extreme Card yesterday.
I’m sure it isn’t the card, its the genius engineers who decided that it should be fine to enclose a 2.4 ghz antenna inside 50 lbs of aircraft aluminum. I have to wonder if they EVER tested the thing.
The SECOND I opened the side of the case, PING! WiFi connected.
Obviously style prevailed over substance, and the fact that the card alone cost 85 bucks chaps my arse. Another 10 bucks and I could’ve just bought a roll of Cat 5 cable and connected at 100 mb/s. Sheesh, Wireless is supposed to be easy, this is NOT endearing at all.
Actually, I’ve had little problems with PMG5 Wireless. The real problem children from Apple on WiFi were the old Titanium PowerBooks - they had real problems.
By the way, where did you see that Apple claimed you didn’t need an antenna on the PMG5.
By the way, you’re *supposed* to have the stock external Wifi antenna on the back of the unit. There’s a cable that runs from the front of the case where the Airport card resides. On the back of the case, there’s a little wireless antenna connector. There should have been a plastic antenna on the back of the unit, a T-shaped thing. Is yours missing? All of them came with this from the factory.
Even better than that is the Chi-pod, or the Chinese Ipod. You can get one off of ebay for $30 and for 4gig storage, it’s cheaper than anything else.
Got an antenna port, no antenna. The guy I got it from said it didn’t have AirPort installed so it didn’t come with one, and the folks at the Apple store said it didn’t need it. Plus it said on the Box “No antenna needed” and in the instruction manual they even do a Q&A:
Do I need to install an AirPort antenna?
No the antenna used by the AirPort extreme card is built in.
Well, I guess I HAVE to spend $110 total to get this bugger to connect Wireless. The sad thing is that I really don’t have ANY faith that for just $30 more it will finally work.
I saw one of those the other day. The owner brought it to me to fix at work - nothing I could do.
Pretty faithful ripoff hardware appearance wise. Can’t really say what the software was like, though.
The Airport Express manual means that the antenna came with *the computer*. No *additional* antenna need be installed.
The antenna was in the packaging that the G5 came in. You bought an incomplete computer. Your computer’s previous owner didn’t fully assemble the machine.
It’d be like buying a Dell laptop with no battery and then whining that the thing wouldn’t work without the power adapter plugged in - you bought an incomplete system.
Oh, I suggest you contact your computer’s previous owner to ask for your antenna. It’s not Apple’s fault, they shipped the unit with an antenna.
Well to make matters worse, I didn’t really even buy it. It’s payment in lieu of another debt, so It’s kinda free.
Still, the dudes at the Apple store put the thing in and I even asked them about the antenna, they said it doesn’t need it.
I will admit that I can’t really gripe too much about it since it’s “supposed” to have one, but nary an “expert” pointed that out until you. Can’t wait until I buy an external HDD, I imagine that may take 3 or 4 trips to the Apple store to get it working right.
Oh, by the way, your claim about the XP boxes running without reboot for a year? That means you’re at least a year behind on your updates... and it means that if I can get your IP address, I can own both of them with just a few commands.
Congratulations, you just advertised to the world that your XP boxes are wide open for net raping.
Nah. Just get a USB or Firewire unit, plug it in, and off you go. It really is that simple - unless you buy one of the cheaper ones, then you have to take the additional step of formatting it with Disk Utility. (The really cheap ones don’t come formatted sometimes.)
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