On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I looked at the Pyro a/v link. Very impressive. It states it can be
used with any PC or
Mac that is
Firewire 1394. The ibook i'm looking at states its Firewire 400.
Will that unit not be
compatible then.? I'm
not up on this at all, thus the quiry.
The FireWire hardware interface protocol is also known by it's
official name from the IEEE standards body, IEEE 1394. When the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] specification became available, Apple renamed the
400Mbps version to FireWire 400 to distinguish between the two plug
interfaces required; before that, all versions of FireWire were the
same.
The iBook supports FireWire at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] rate (FireWire 400),
which is what the Pyro A/V Link device requires.
FireWire 800 is the higher speed specification standard: it uses a
different plug connector for safety and is backwards compatible with
FireWire 400 using a plug adapter. The PowerBook 15 and 17 models
support FireWire 400 and FireWire 800.
I'm currently on dial up but my isp offers wireless internet as
well. My SO has given the
go ahead to upgrade to at least hispeed if not wireless, so what
you are saying is whether wireless or
wired hi speed or dialup, these routers offer firewall support. I
think i read you correctly.
Expansion:
I suspect you mean your ISP offers dial-up and broadband service
(either DSL or Cable Modem). They might also offer an addition to the
broadband service by supplying a wireless base station; I haven't
seen that very often here but it's certainly a marketable
configuration. Personally, I would shy away from ISP offerings that
include a wireless base station. I prefer to use my own base station
hardware to connect with the dial-up or broadband connection box.
The Apple Airport Express base station is designed to work with a
broadband service, connecting to the cable or DSL box through an
ethernet connection. The Apple AirPort Extreme base station supports
the same thing but also has a built-in modem to allow dial-up
connection as well.
Both base station models include all the same security and other
services, and are very easy to set up using the standard utility
applications supplied with Mac OS X.
Godfrey
