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Resolved Airport Exteme Card for Power Mac G5 Late 2005...which one?

tevion5

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Can somebody please tell me the model number of the Airport Exteme wifi+Bluetooth Card for Power Mac G5 Late 2005?

Want to get one cheap somewhere but there are so many I'm afraid ill mistakenly get the AGP one or one of the laptops ones!
 
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Mac Hammer Fan

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Does an Airport card from a PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 from 2004 work in a PowerMac G5 Late 2005 Dual Core 2.3?
 
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Will this work woth kismac on a powerbook?
I need a wireless card because... Well, I thought the airport traces were MSB_PLL cpu clock control pins, and... Desoldered them.
When I used my old USB wifi card, it worked great, and then someone decided it was a powerbook "handle"; they picked up the powerbook by the wifi card and broke it in half.
 
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Mac Hammer Fan said:
Does an Airport card from a PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 from 2004 work in a PowerMac G5 Late 2005 Dual Core 2.3?
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It works as long as you're able to grab an antenna cable form a compatible Powerbook or older Power Mac.
I've done that and it works perfectly fine.
 
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The A1026 airport extreme card works like a charm assuming you have the corresponding antenna that plugs into the back. Without it ime your airport extreme will be rendered effectively useless with a range of maybe a foot or two. In that scenario, you'll want to make a hillbilly antenna (is what I use to great results) out of a wire Twisty tie. That or drop some decent cash on the apple powermac G5 antenna from ebay.
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MisterKeeks

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RhianB said:
The A1026 airport extreme card works like a charm assuming you have the corresponding antenna that plugs into the back. Without it ime your airport extreme will be rendered effectively useless with a range of maybe a foot or two. In that scenario, you'll want to make a hillbilly antenna (is what I use to great results) out of a wire Twisty tie. That or drop some decent cash on the apple powermac G5 antenna from ebay.
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Late 2005 G5s have the antenna built in to a white plastic strip on the back of the computer and therefore have no antenna port.
 
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Ya learn something new each day. What was sold to me as a late 2005 PMG5 is in fact an early 2005 (week 19 so week3 of April 2005 after checking the SN). Thanks for the clarification.

Hack5190 - Do these antennas work for the BT port as well? Same MCX spec? Unfortunately, this PM does not have a BT card in it so I'd have to buy one but I want to have BT on this box.
 
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RhianB said:
Hack5190 - Do these antennas work for the BT port as well? Same MCX spec? Unfortunately, this PM does not have a BT card in it so I'd have to buy one but I want to have BT on this box.
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Like you I don't have a blue tooth card to test them, sorry. However since these old wifi cards operate in the 2.4 GHz range and bluetooth operates from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz it should work.
 
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I'm still awaiting on the Chinese antennas but my Apple BT card came in for my PMG5 so I installed that. I needed an "antenna" (I use that term very loosely lol) so I came up with this. I tried a couple designs but this worked best with the best range - about 2ft max from the antenna port w/accurate tracking. It's a twisty tie stuck into the port with 4 springs (the springs from under a single coil or bucker electric guitar pickup) stuck around it.
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Serious low-budget Mickey Mouse fix but when in a pickle, this pig tail works & I'm still getting great bandwidth from that twisty tie wifi antenna as well :D
 
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barracuda156 said:
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I have a same problem now. Got G5 Quad, but turned out there is no Airport and no Bluetooth. Which card to look for?
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Part number: 661-3692

On the Dual Cores and Quads these are combo Airport and BT cards. You're also going to need the runway card if you do not have that. The runway card is the part that the combo card attaches to. That's part number 922-7090.
 
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eyoungren said:
Part number: 661-3692

On the Dual Cores and Quads these are combo Airport and BT cards. You're also going to need the runway card if you do not have that. The runway card is the part that the combo card attaches to. That's part number 922-7090.
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Sounds complicated.

Would an external Airport Express do?
 
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