advertisement
Forums

The Forum is sponsored by 
 

AAPL stock: Click Here

You are currently viewing the Tips and Deals forum
Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: August 08, 2008 08:33PM
I use the USB D-Link DWL-122 in my mini. Getting it to work is truly a crap shoot. Are there others that just work?
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: tronnei
Date: August 08, 2008 09:06PM
This one works fine with my G4 Mac mini:

[eshop.macsales.com]
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: MacArtist
Date: August 08, 2008 09:10PM
I had good luck setting up this from our forum sponsor;

[eshop.macsales.com]

My disclaimer here is that I set it up on a PC running XP but I would venture to say setting it up on a Mac couldn't suck more, could it?

It works great with my Airport Extreme N Base Station.



I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making
him carry me, and yet assure myself and others
that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his
lot by all possible means — except by getting off
his back. - Leo Tolstoy, novelist and Philosopher
(1828-1910)

Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: August 08, 2008 09:44PM
Just ordered one. I go with OWC if I have any doubts about Mac compatibility.
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: Blankity Blank
Date: August 08, 2008 09:57PM
Are these things supposed to be tricky? I bought a Netgear stick for $5 at a rummage sale, ran the CD, plugged it into my mom's HP and off she went and she's been happy as a bug in a rug ever since. I just assumed they were pretty much plug and play(ish). :-)
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: Jimmypoo
Date: August 08, 2008 10:07PM
The chipsets have chinese / taiwanese drivers written for them for PC.

The tough part is finding the Mac drivers written well, if at all. Only the Broadcom chipsets
will work no driver needed (that I've seen), and that's with PCMCIA.

The ASUS that I have from OWC will not sign on to my UFO Airport G, in WPA/WPA2, but it
will to my Belkin router.

So I have a router plugged into a router (one is a 10.x and the other is a 192.x), just to
get my Mac mini online.
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: August 08, 2008 11:59PM
That would depend on where you plan on sticking it.
Options:  Reply • Quote
Re: Is there a painless USB WiFi stick?
Posted by: incognegro
Date: August 09, 2008 09:27AM
Quote
Mike Johnson
That would depend on where you plan on sticking it.

zing!



Options:  Reply • Quote
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login

Online Users

Guests: 159
Record Number of Users: 186 on February 20, 2020
Record Number of Guests: 5122 on October 03, 2020