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I'm seriously considering getting a new macbook pro for college, but I know that the majority of dorms have wireless linksys routers. I have an old mac here at home with old airport capabilities, and it won't work with my linksys router that I have for this pc notebook. Anyone know if the new macbooks and their Airport wireless can work with pc based linksys wireless routers? Cause if they don't, getting a mac would be a complete waste of my money. (I'm not looking for an argument on which is better, mac or pc, I've already made that decision, please just answer the question.)

2007-02-28 02:32:15 · 2 answers · asked by Krazy Karl 2 in Computers & Internet Computer Networking

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A Macbook's airport card will work perfectly fine with a linksys wireless router, AS LONG AS you have all passwords or such for connecting to whatever router it may be. Also make sure your MAC address is registered if the router uses MAC filtering (Which they should be if their smart).

2007-02-28 02:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by Ju1i3andcandy 1 · 0 0

Well in simple terms. Macs use Appletalk for their protocol while PCs use TCP/IP as their main protocol.. hopefully this makes sense to you.

But if you are basically trying to log onto the internet then yes your mac book should work just fine depending how you configured your router. I had an iBook and it worked just as well as my current laptop with my desktops..

Now you could however buy an external wireless card and use that.

:)

2007-02-28 02:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by pdtpatrick 3 · 0 0

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