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01-11-2004, 10:37 AM
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Stuck in IKEA. Send help.
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Someone really wanted Bluetooth in their iBook without something sticking out the side of their USB port :P
http://www3.telus.net/thewitt/BT/ |
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01-11-2004, 12:47 PM
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MacTalk Podcaster
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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HARD CORE!
Damn that's a sexy mod. Don't think my soldering skills are up to it though. hehe.
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01-11-2004, 01:06 PM
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Saab power
Group: Regulars
Location: Canberra
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Thats pretty cool! Always nice to see people innovating, and sharing the ideas and triumphs with the rest of the mac community. 
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02-11-2004, 12:12 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Behind you
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Brilliant!
Shame the USB port is useless now. 
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02-11-2004, 12:19 AM
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Addicted to anything made by Apple
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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I don't know why Apple doesn't have the BT option like they have the airport extreme or RAM? Surely with their sales of BT Keyboard and Mouse they'd want people to purchase the BT Kit later on!
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20 Inch Cinema Display
8Gb 3G iPhone, 3rd gen iPod Nano 4Gb, 3rd gen U2 ipod 20Gb
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02-11-2004, 07:43 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
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I think there are actually 2 versions of this mod and ones uses the internal connector designed for Apples own BlueTooth adaptor.
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02-11-2004, 07:57 AM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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what about a mod to put airport extreme in old powerbook and ibooks.
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02-11-2004, 09:16 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
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I remember looking into that when the new airport card first came out, it's not as simple as a interface mod. from memory ( scratchy at best ) one uses a pci type bridge, the other uses a pcmcia one, in short you can't do it without some major modding.
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02-11-2004, 09:19 AM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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im game
i need 54g so its either mod a AE card or use a belkin pcmcia card.
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02-11-2004, 10:30 AM
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Stuck in IKEA. Send help.
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Well, an AirPort Extreme is mini-PCI, and the only laptops that have mini-PCI support the AirPort Extreme already. Just save yourself the trouble and buy a PCMCIA card :P
At least the PCMCIA card will let you attach an external antenna if you want to go wardriving |
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02-11-2004, 10:41 AM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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what the longest range antenna i can get.
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02-11-2004, 01:14 PM
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Stuck in IKEA. Send help.
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Well it depends, you can carry around a 15m pole and you'd get a long range :P
Or if you want something portable, you can get something like this: http://www.quickertek.com/products.html |
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03-11-2004, 09:12 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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I think apple should make 2 slots available of the same kind used for the AirPort Extreme card, so you can use one for AirPort and one for BlueTooth. Plus then if new BlueTooth standards come out you can just pop in a new card.
Another idea: you could use the two 'slots' to install two AirPort cards and get OS X to aggregates the available throughput for 108Mbps, some base stations support this now...or have two separate wireless channels, one for AirTunes and one for your network.
Cheers
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