On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 06:37 PM, Real Name wrote:
Hello,Very possible. As far as hardware goes, I'm assuming that you are ok with 10Mb networking (otherwise you need a network card for every machine you own). The S900 has 100Mb ethernet, the AIO has 10Mb ethernet. I assume that you will need a ethernet card for the PC and the notebook (although depending on model either of them may have ethernet installed). You may be able to go mostly wireless. D-Link makes a USB Wireless dongle that works with Mac OS X and Windows 98SE and higher. If you go that route, I would get one of their wireless routers, 1 dongle for the AIO, a PC card for the IBM, a wireless PCI card for the PC w/ XP. D-Link's DI-514 has a built in switch that should allow you to plug in the S900 and the router (hopefully you can turn off the DHCP in Verizon's hardware) will take care of internet sharing. As for "networking", it depends on what you want to do. If you don't care about cross platform stuff, you will be set at that point.
I have recently been notified by Verizon that I now have DSL service. Right now we have one computer (s900) hooked up to a very slow dial-up connection.
I would like to network the following:
1. Supermac S900 G3 maximum ram usb and firewire - system 9.2.2. We have a partition with OS X but we never use it -- not sure what vesion.
2. AIO Beige G3, 512 ram - usb card. Also running 9.2.2 with a OSX partition.
3. PC desktop running windows XP
4. IBM laptop running windows 98. I could load XP on it if necessary.
I can directly connect the desktop and AIO to the router via cable. I want the laptop to be wireless for protability reasons. The S900, which is the main family computer, is in a difficult space to connect via cable -- I would also like it to run wireless. However I could run the phone line to the S900, but all other computers would then have to be wireless.
Is this possible? What type of hardware do I need? What brands are MAC compatible? Vendors? Can I use 9.2.2 or is Mac OS X the way to go? Do I need to purchase additional software? Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thank you
Feel free to contact me off line for more. I'd be glad to give you a hand if you live in central Illinois.
As for brands, I like D-Link, Netgear, and Asante. D-Link has the only USB wireless that supports Mac's out of the box (that I can find).
Hope that helps, Brian
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