If all your Macs have ethernet....
Get one of those DSL/Cable router you can set it up to do the routing. Turn off the DSL, plug in the router, and turn DSL back on. PLug the computers in.. configure them with IP addresses and you should be set to go.
If you need more detail ask away.
On Apr 10, 2004, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks-
Hopefully this is on-topic enough not to get yelled at...
Now that I've got my Macintosh collection the way I want it, I am
interested in setting up a LAN here in my apartment with the goal that all
my computers will be able to access the Internet.
I have four compact Macs, two desktop Macs, and one PC.
I have little to no experience with doing this, and lots of the
terminology surrounding Ethernet and networking in general doesn't mean
anything to me, so please be as descriptive as possible when giving me a
suggestion. :)
The way this are set up, I have DSL internet, but the DSL modem is
currently hooked up directly to the Ethernet card on my PC, and thus that
is the only computer that can currently access the Internet.
I would like to get some sort of hub that will connect to the DSL modem,
and then support connections from all my computers so that they all are
able to access the Internet, and can share files between each other. My
Performa, IIsi, and PC all currently have Ethernet capability via
expansion cards. I probably have an extra Asante Ethernet card I can
install in the SE/30. The remaining computers, a Plus, SE, and Classic II
do not have Ethernet capability and as I understand it, this is only
possible through a special SCSI Ethernet expasion that attaches to their
external SCSI port. If there are other options, please let me know.
So if I understand things correctly, I don't have many options here. I
hear that AppleTalk does not pass TCP/IP information (?) so using
AppleTalk to connect these computers to the rest of the network won't work
for my purpose, correct? How hard is it to get a hold of three used
external Ethernet adapters as mentioned above? How expensive are they,
typically, or are they very rare? What kind of hub ought I look into
buying? Also, assuming those external SCSI Ethernet adapters are
relatively cheap and easy to come by, would all I need to do then is
simply plug all the computers into the hub and be good to go (with proper
MacTCP settings, of course)?
I have read the two articles on lowendmac.com about networking, but I am
still somewhat confused. One of them mentions something called a Farallon
StarRouter as being able to let AppleTalk pass TCP/IP information and
essentially be a part of an Ethernet network, or perhaps I misunderstood.
Either way, that route seems completely out of the question as the article
mentioned this device is highly expensive, and numerous eBay searches have
yet to turn up a single one.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated, but again, please be nice to me
and try to explain things in a way that I might actually understand. For
example, I do not understand the difference between routers and hubs, I do
not know what switches, uplinks, TCP/IP stacks, or any of the hundreds of
acronyms (BNC, WAP, NAT, and so on and so on and so on) mean and so on and
so forth. I know what Ethernet is, and I know that there are a few
different types, but I don't know the differences between them other than
the different connectors they use (RJ 45, etc), and that the RJ 45 one is
the one that is most-used and useful these days.
And basically, I don't care to know about any of it, other than how I might go about setting up a network so my compact Macs can access the Internet.
Thanks in advance, Nat
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