My machines in the studio were previously connected through the hub built into the DSL modem. 10M ethernet connection. Pathetic I know. I had a 10/100 switching hub, but after bad experiences with a different one in the past It wasn't connected.
I've now trimmed the studio down to just two main machines - a new & an old G4. Both have 100M ethernet built in, but I've never used it because 100M hubs are soooo expensive.
With the airport the connection between the two machines became even slower (the older machine can't use the faster, extreme card)so I had to do something about it. It also seemed a weird way of networking two machines sat next to each other.
And I thought....two empty ethernet 100M sockets. Can I use them? Can I have two networks at the same time?
Plug the two machines together (you can use an ordinary ethernet cable - doesn't matter whether it's crossed-over or not) Go to Networks in the preferences folder. Make sure that AppleTalk is not active for the Airport, then make AppleTalk active for the built-in ethernet. Go to connect to server & there (if sharing is enabled) the other machine should be.
High speed wireless connection to the internet via Airport. & extra high speed networking of the two machines (the internet connection can be shared over ethernet). Sorted!
Anybody want to buy a spare airport card?
ian
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Ian McKinnell wrote:
Help! I hope this is not off topic. I'm sure I'm not the only Prodigger currently struggling with this problem.
Im in the process of installing a WiFi network in my block of flats, sharing a 2Mbps (i.e 4 times faster than regular broadband) internet connection. I'm using Apple Airport Extreme base stations. Most people in the block use Mac's & I connected them in a few minutes.
But yesterday I started trying to connect the PC's. And failed.
The machine I've started with is a Dell laptop running Windows '98 with a new DLink DWL-G650 WiFi card (802.11g, like airport extreme) & I'm totally stumped.
An Apple automatically detects the network & to join for the first time you just enter the password. With Windows I cannot find even a mention of passwords.
The Dlink came with some software (AirPlus XtremeG Wireless Utility) & this can detect the network, but despite having reread the few flimsy pages of the manual repeatedly I cannot fathom out what information to put where & some of the boxes won't even let me enter the information anyway. I've trawled Google & found masses of information, much of it impenetrable but none of it seems relevant - they usually deal with some other flavour of Windows & control panels that this machine doesn't have. Not being a PC user maybe it's because I don't know where to look. None of the PC owners in this block are hip to the Windows jive most only use one specific program (for example this laptop belongs to a doctor who is forced to use Windows because of work)
I found an Apple program for windows, to administer an airport base station. But unlike the Mac version, this does not give you the option to simply join the network, only administer it & I don't want to hand control over to a portable PC that may not be around when you need it.
I had thought connecting PC's would be fairly simple (connecting to WiFi stations in Starbucks for example). Can anybody point me in the right direction?
ian mckinnell
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