# Need wireless access at home for old laptop and iPod **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 20, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966 "2009-12-20T17:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966/1 "2009-12-20T17:24:22Z")
I have an old iBook G3 and my wife has an iPod Touch with wifi. I would like to give both computers access to the Internet, which we currently access with cable modems that don’t appear to have wireless network capability. I don’t have an AirPort card for the iBook, so I’m just looking for the best/cheapest way to set up a local network, which includes getting whatever I need for the iBook while just using the wifi capability of the iPod. This may include replacing the modem with a wireless network-capable one. What do you suggest? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966/2 "2009-12-20T17:32:30Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I don’t have an AirPort card for the iBook, My former roommate used a PC laptop, and he connected to the AirPort just fine. 😉 I don’t know when Apple started calling their wireless system ‘AirPort’. Do you have any sort of wireless card in the iBook? If you do, then you should be able to get a wireless router (e.g., AirPort, Linksys) and connect it to your cable modem. [Example](http://www.home-network-help.com/images/wireless-router-as-access-point-network.jpg). My PowerBook came with an AirPort card, and I bought an AirPort card off of eBay and installed it in my iMac G3. Of course the iPod Touch connects as well. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966/3 "2009-12-20T17:37:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Do you have any sort of wireless card in the iBook? If you do, then you should be able to get a wireless router (e.g., AirPort, Linksys) and connect it to your cable modem. [Example](http://www.home-network-help.com/images/wireless-router-as-access-point-network.jpg). > > I don’t know if there is a wireless card in the iBook now. > > My PowerBook came with an AirPort card, and I bought an AirPort card off of eBay and installed it in my iMac G3. \*\* Of course the iPod Touch connects as well.\*\* That’s what I was not sure about. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966/4 "2009-12-20T17:42:29Z")
Posted from my iPod. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-wireless-access-at-home-for-old-laptop-and-ipod/521966/5 "2009-12-20T17:42:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t know when Apple started calling their wireless system ‘AirPort’. When they introduced it, in [1999](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort).