Hi There
I've just bought me a Mac Mini - It's yet to arrive, but I didn't want to splash out on the internal Airport at the outset - I won't need it for a while.
I was wondering if any of you Mac users know of a suitable USB Wireless adaptor which I could plug into a USB2 port on the Mini? - I've already got a TDK Bluetooth adaptor, so that's covered.
Any help appreciated - Thanks
I tried this last yearish...and i had nothing but problems with it. The drivers didnt work well and the connection kept dropping and causing kernal panics. I eventually caved and bought an airport extreme card.
I dont know if there is anything on the market today that is working or if people are having any luck with it. but that is my 2 cents
In the begining I had nothing but trouble with non-apple wifi, I don't know if it was just the routers I was using or if it was a USB issue or what, the point is that I caved and bought an airport extreme card (like photo did). Had 0 issues from the airport card apart from the occasional disconnection due to it waking up from sleep (this happens rarely and is easily fixed by reloging into the network).
So I suggest you get the airport card...at least you'll know it'll work
as you guys are discussing about Wireless with the Macs, I would like to ask a question too. I'm looking into buying a Powerbook, I have a wireless router at home that supports both 802.11b/g for sharing my internet connection. I just wanna know whether the powerbook's built in airport extreme will work fine with my existing router or not.. Thanks in advance and sorry for being such a ****s (it will be my first ever Macintosh 
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wow. You guys almost typed the same thing. Look at the use of such terms as "i had nothing but problems" and "I had nothing but trouble." Or the use the the technical computing term "I caved."
Interesting....
as you guys are discussing about Wireless with the Macs, I would like to ask a question too. I'm looking into buying a Powerbook, I have a wireless router at home that supports both 802.11b/g for sharing my internet connection. I just wanna know whether the powerbook's built in airport extreme will work fine with my existing router or not.. Thanks in advance and sorry for being such a ****s (it will be my first ever Macintosh
Right now, I'm running an iBook w/ the built-in AE and it's working just fine with my Netgear wireless router. So the powerbook shouldn't have any issues with non-apple wifi routers either.
As long as there isnt an airport base station on your house you should be fine. I have seen it happen that a base station resets the connection of the wifi router constantly and it is thus, rendered unusable.
The router by itself works (ive tried it with a US Robotics)
wow. You guys almost typed the same thing. Look at the use of such terms as "i had nothing but problems" and "I had nothing but trouble." Or the use the the technical computing term "I caved."Interesting....
LOL...good call.....in a nutshell the lesson was that non apple supported hardware would not work. Airport extreme card and a linksys wireless router...all good now 
Well I also bought a MIni and when I was at the store, having to buy a usb keyboard and mouse ($60), they asked if I wanted to wait for a little bit. The guy said at the store that airport and bluetooth are coming this month to be user/apple store able installation. It will be about $100 but I know that Airport is worth it.
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