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Use a Belkin wireless dongle with OS X
Authored by: MichaelBuckley on Aug 31, '05 10:53:02AM

I've set a few of these up for older iBooks as well. I've never really liked them as an adequate wireless solution however. These are the equivalent of cheap Windows PCI wireless cards, and as such do not always work well on atypical network setups. For example, at work we have a network that doesn't broadcast an SSID, and I had quite a time getting this dongle to recognize the network. Sometimes it would be as easy as setting up Airport to do the same thing (Just type in the SSID and hit "OK), sometimes I had to fiddle with settings.

The bottom line is that these things work well enough for typical network settings, but the software that controls them was written at minimal cost. It does not use the built-in Airport software, and is less robust. So if you're connecting to anything besides the most typical WiFi setups, you will probably have to fiddle with it a lot.



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