I have a Mac Pro that only has ethernet (no wifi built in). Can I use this to connect to my wifi network? Is it fast through the USB or slower?
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I have it hooked to my 2012 macbook pro USB 3.0 and have the card in the laptop off. IT is FAST! 80211.AC I get 117MBps download and 10 mbps upload. I pay for 105/10. That is all wireless.I'm running Mavericks 10.9.3
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I use it with my Mac mini, with the wifi turned off so I can take advantage of my Wireless AC router network. It works great.
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When used with my MacBook Pro, circa 2011 (damaged/broken internal card & connection) running OS X 10.6.8, I find it at least as fast as the internal card in my mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Mavericks 10.9.3.
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Im on a 2009 Mac Pro and it boots for me. I get about 450MB/s read/write, but that is on PCIe 2.0, of course. Essentially, whatever the max throughput is of your PCIe slot will be the limit of your read/write.
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The card is just inserted into one of your PCIe slots with the SSD drive and your all set. No extra cable required. I was not able to bootcamp mine. so i used a different method. I bought an adapter that accepts the SSD and allows it to mount onto the slide of the Mac Pro drive. I did not see any difference in speed. The Mac Pro will then respond much better, especially if you intend to bootcamp for windows. Good luck
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This unit will connect to your network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet. The USB is for connecting a flash or hard drive device. If you click on "see more product details", it gives you a better description of the product.
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Hi, it requieres 10.8.4 for USB 3 ports to work. For Ethernet, to work with 10.8.x, you also need to download and Install a driver form Caldigit web site. Better install Maverik (10.9.x) as it includes all drivers. The wife is using this device with a Macbook Pro 2011 (it has all firmware upgrades) with 10.9.1 and it is working just fine. I'm using a Belkin dock, but this is much more stable.
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yes. you just plug into an available USB port and now you have an ethernet port ! my ethernet ports were damaged by lightening so I use this adapter now and it works fine on both iMac and MacBook Pro.
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Hi. From what I've researched, this Airport Extreme Card is compatible with all generations of Mac Pro through 2009. My Mac Pro is an Early 2009 model with a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. It is easy enough to install once you remove the modules around the area where it will be installed (looking at the inside of the tower, it is just left of center), but it is somewhat difficult to attach the wires unless you have small enough tools. I had to have a local computer repair shop do that part of the installation. It was worth the extra $25. You might find additional installation instructions at www.ifixit.com. :-) Hi. From what I've researched, this Airport Extreme Card is compatible with all generations of Mac Pro through 2009. My Mac Pro is an Early 2009 model with a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. It is easy enough to install once you remove the modules around the area where it will be installed (looking at the inside of the tower, it is just left of center), but it is somewhat difficult to attach the wires unless you have small enough tools. I had to have a local computer repair shop do that part of the installation. It was worth the extra $25. You might find additional installation instructions... » Read More Hi. From what I've researched, this Airport Extreme Card is compatible with all generations of Mac Pro through 2009. My Mac Pro is an Early 2009 model with a 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. It is easy enough to install once you remove the modules around the area where it will be installed (looking at the inside of the tower, it is just left of center), but it is somewhat difficult to attach the wires unless you have small enough tools. I had to have a local computer repair shop do that part of the installation. It was worth the extra $25. You might find additional installation instructions at www.ifixit.com. :-) « Show Less
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@ T. Vanlienden... Yes, this is exactly what I use mine for. One must keep in mind however, that this is a USB 2 and therefor the speeds are not going to be like a pure ethernet connection. As long as you're OK with the slower speed, this should work just fine for you. Hope this helps...
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I am using it in a mixed Mac/Windows home network. It's been a long time since i set it up, but as I recall, I got it to connect without resorting to running the Windows program.I did run the program on a Windows box later just to see what it did, but don't believe I needed it for initial setup.
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Yes. The CD that I received did not contain what the instructions said it did. I emailed their support and after 2 email exchanges, they sent me the software that was supposed to be on the CD. This may be fixed. THe antenna worked in "dumb" mode without the software. It picked up a source and worked. The software allows you to control which network you join and what the performance characteristics are. For a MacPro, you will need one USB short extension cable to reach both USB ports. One port is used to supplement power.
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I have only used it for my ipad and iPhone. I think it might if your MAC Pro can be powered by a USB cable.
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Yes, I occasionally connect mine to my Macbook and it works fine. Speeds with 3.0 are great.
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I just finished installing the software CD and setting up through Ethernet on my iMac OS X 10.4 Tiger and it all went smooth. As Christopher mentioned, you first must setup through USB. If you follow the instructions in the long colored guide sheet and networking setup guide, you should have no problems whatsoever. Goodluck! =)
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Yes, I have a Mac Pro 4,1 ( 2x2.93GHz ) running Mavericks and it was plug and play. As I had said in my review on this card a while ago, an excellent value for the price!
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Yes. It will work.I ran this way briefly downstream from a D-Link, but once I configured by cloning the MAC address my download speed was much faster.
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Any storage you attach to a wi fi router will be very slow, especially compared to wired links. There are several reasons for this but the most important one is a router is designed to make sure no one link/channel sucks up the entire bandwidth that is available. If you had a "business" router you could establish rules that would let you work around this but consumer models are made to be "user friendly". You *might* be able to tweak the "game" settings to allow greater throughput but then you would have to set up your storage programs to use certain ports. IMO you are better off using wired LANs (and/or one of the four Ethernet ports on the router) for heavy duty storage transfers. However, this unit will do just fine if all you need are routine backups (especially at night) and nominal file access by a few users. I have 1TB attached through the USB port and another 2TB attached via wireless and while transfers are slow they are acceptable for home use. Note that USB is going to be the slowest of all choices with a router, behind wi fi (a bit faster) and ethernet (very fast).
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Hello! I have the USB 3.0 with my macbook pro and I think it works perfectly well and fast too, all you need to do is plug it in the USB slot. The USB 3.0 is capable of transferring documents/pictures faster. Also the USB 3.0 saves battery life & its able to multi task by adding files into the drive and working on it.The USB 3.0 will work on a macbook pro!I have: 500gb USB 3.0 WD hard drive and Macbook Pro: with OS X version 10.9.1 and on my iMac 10.5 and it also works perfectly on that too.