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If I get the Airport and a pc card to plug into my Windows system, won't I have to route between
the wireless network and my home network in my windows system? won't the windows system

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Yes you would.. There's two ways that you can do this.. The first way is to get a pci wireless card (or the pcmcia wireless card and a pcmcia adapter), and place this alongside a regular nic in your desktop - then the desktop could act as a bridge between the wired and the wireless network..

The second (and better) way is to hook up the apple airprot inside your house, and purchase a wireless ethernet adapter (Lucent makes one for ~$220, plus the cost of a regular wireless card), use the ethernet adapter (it accepts a pcmcia card, and has a plug to plugin a cat-5 10baseT cord, such as from the empeg..)on empeg, and the airport base in the house..

Expensive, but it'll work... the first method shouldn't cost too much...
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units