Help! I bought a very nice used Airport Extreme hoping to attach a hard drive to it. I needed dialup so it has a modem built in. Turns out, the flying saucer shaped Extreme does very well with my printer but does not have the "n" standard to network a hard drive.
So what to do? I want both dialup and a networked hard drive (the printer is gravy.) Should I keep the flying saucer and buy one of the boxy newest Airports (no dialup as far as I can tell) and use them BOTH in the network? Is there another option or two? Another problem. My G4 tower does poorly with Airport, though the airport card tests good in another computer. But I can run an ethernet line to the airport. If I dialup with the laptop, the G4 sees the internet over ethernet, no problem. But I can't figure a way to get the G4 to access the modem and go on and off line. The Internet Connect app doesn't do it, though I've messed about a bit and it seems like there's a way to help it find the modem on the airport base station through ethernet. I'm not at that computer now, but I dived pretty deeply using Help and submenus. There are a bunch of acronyms for different protocols that are mud to me. Can anyone guide me through this. The goal is to make the desktop computer part of the airport network and be able to initiate a dialup. I also guess it would be a good idea to get a high speed ethernet pci card for my G4 DA. Would this improve it's performance on the airport network? Or does the 133mhz bus on that computer limit ethernet speed anyway? A lot of questions... Thanks, Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
