Yesterday, I went to my mothers house with my trusty iPad in hand ready to "wow" her with this new technology. When I got there, I needed to connect to a network and as her newer 2009 mac mini has 802.11 a,b,g,n capabilities, I quickly navigated to system preferences and turned on "internet sharing" . I then found that same network on the ipad and for all intent purposes, hooked to her now sweet network, (or at least this is what I thought) the ipad found the network?, gave me the appropriate "bars" in the upper left hand corner of my ipad screen.... BUT, no connection? no connection at all? No matter what I did, I couldn't get online with the ipad.
Now, at home I use an Airport extreme a,b,g,n base station to get online with this same ipad all the time. SO... I recreated the same scenario with my iMac at home as I did with her Mac Mini.... and you guessed it, same thing, I couldn't get online. The ipad "saw" the network, had the "bars" in the upper left corner, but no connection? What am I doing wrong here? How do I connect at moms Mac Mini, or frankly ANY mac without an Airport Extreme base station? hmm... I'm stumped. TIA Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 [email protected] -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
