Wireless Card for OS X - recommendations

[Garibaldi]

I am looking to setup a wireless mac network. The computers in the network will mostly have OS X 10.4 but there may be some stragglers with 10.2 or 10.3. I have looked into Apple's options for wireless, and basically they seem to offer only Airport Extreme Cards. This would be fine except some of the computers cannot handle Extreme Cards. There are 7 PowerPC G5 towers and 3 iMacs. Would it be possible to use a USB wireless adapter on these computers? If so which models would you recommend for reliability and compatibility with OS X?

[Faustus]

Its a touch situation actually. Either get some older Airports off ebay or if they are all desktops then check these guys out for laptops

http://www.macsense.com/product/broadband/wireless.html

and here for desktops.

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_pci.html

Its going to be pricey. Trust me on this.

[Faustus]

If the machines are all in the same area you might be better off trying to see if you plug them into a wireless router via cables and set the router up as kind of an Access point.

Never done it before so it might be worth investigating and a lot cheaper if it works.

[ps2daddy]

I am looking to setup a wireless mac network. The computers in the network will mostly have OS X 10.4 but there may be some stragglers with 10.2 or 10.3. I have looked into Apple's options for wireless, and basically they seem to offer only Airport Extreme Cards. This would be fine except some of the computers cannot handle Extreme Cards. There are 7 PowerPC G5 towers and 3 iMacs. Would it be possible to use a USB wireless adapter on these computers? If so which models would you recommend for reliability and compatibility with OS X?

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Belkin and buslink both make wiresless adaptors that are mac compatible via usb (they are sometimes flaky at least the were with the the 802.11B devices)

http://www.symplification.com/node/209
http://www.mcquitty.net/archives/computers/
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=22628
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=334

I have a linksys wireless ethernet bridge that has worked perfectly for non airport compatible macs I have use on my network (has also worked great for all the pcs. xbox. and ps2s that needed to be hooked up to my wirelss network also)