Does anyone have any experiences of these devices?
I'm looking to get one for use with a PowerMac G5 running 10.5, so if anyone has experience - or knows anyone with experience - of these then that'd be great.
Ta muchly.

Mark

Our Internet was down, so i put my dad's vodafone pay as you go one in my g5 with 10.4 and it worked a treat.

Quite a lot of the 3G ones work and often have drivers (if necessary) ready to install on the stick itself. Wifi ones are a bit problematic - back in the day there was a specific D-Link one you had to buy, which may well not even be in production any more. To be honest you might be better buying the cheapest ethernet to wifi bridge you can get, that's pretty much guaranteed to work and won't cost that much more than a USB stick...

I have a T-Mobile 3G one, and it’s pretty good. However, I’d suggest you look at MiFi ones - which will give you the power to connect more than one device to the 3G network. Ask Gareth about his. He seems to like it.

Hi guys, thanks for the replies.
I need the Mac to connect to an already in place broadband router. The router has wi-fi activated, the Mac just needs a reliable way to connect to the network.
Running an Ethernet cable's not an adequate solution either in this instance, otherwise I'd've done that. It seems that finding a reliable dongle that plays nicely with OS X isn't quite as simple as I thought it would be.

Mark

Perhaps it's the use of the word 'dongle' that's wrong?
Perhaps wireless adapter would be better?

Mark

Sorry, I thought you meant for 3G. I'd go pci (or pci-x in your case).

That's if the apple ones that have their own slot are too expensive/not available.

It's for a Quad G5, so I guess it's PCIe only I think.

Mark

Well, that. I thought pci x was short for express. So what, there's another pci type out now? Fuxake.

Bingo.

PCI != PCI-x != PCIe

(PCI-x means PCI Extended - a double-width version of vanilla (parallel) PCI for servers
PCIe means PCI Express - a serial replacement of PCI, PCI-x and AGP)

PCI-x was on all PowerMac G5s until it was replaced in 2005 by PCIe on the G5 Quadcore.

I'm thinking the best option is to just get a cheap wireless router. Extend the existing wireless network that he has and connect the Mac to the new router with ethernet.
I don't have the money to spend on a more elegant solution.

Mark

The pci cards come in at a bout twenty quid, that's cheaper than a router I would have thought. Don't know about pcie though.

Saw that one, but I was looking for PCI Express, as that's seemingly the only expansion slots this Mac has.

Mark

This any good?

It looks like it should work but obviously I can't speak to that.