Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-27 Thread Curt Raymond
With the real good cable you can go to 10KM... That cable is more expensive though. If you're going to keep your runs down to 300' or less use copper cat6... -Curt Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:13:58 -0400 From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express To: Mercedes Discussion

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-27 Thread Allan Streib
LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WEP or WPA? It makes a difference, as WEP is a lot easier to crack for someone who wants in. WEP will keep out only the casual passer-by. It is at this point quite easy to defeat. Allan -- 1983 300D 1966 230 ___

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread John M McIntosh
Also the Airport Express has optical audio out, and you can then setup your itunes app to beam music to the airport, then onwards to your A/V system. Thus I've a gigabyte hub, airport express lurking in the A/V cabinet so I can get internet access downstairs, but also beam music to the

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread archer
I checked the Applestore.com and couldn't find the $18 refurbished Airport Express'. Maybe they're out of them. Gerry -- - Original Message - From: John M McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also the Airport Express has optical audio out, and you can then setup

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Curt Raymond
GigaBIT, 1/8th a gigabyte. And if you're really getting Gigabit it'd better be a switch. Hubs are unmanaged devices and give pitiful performance. -Curt Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:05:56 -0700 From: John M McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express To: Mercedes Discussion List

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread LWB250
are unmanaged devices and give pitiful performance. -Curt Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:05:56 -0700 From: John M McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Gary Hurst
] wrote: GigaBIT, 1/8th a gigabyte. And if you're really getting Gigabit it'd better be a switch. Hubs are unmanaged devices and give pitiful performance. -Curt Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:05:56 -0700 From: John M McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Allan Streib
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's all. Plug your printer into it plus the cable from the cable modem. No configuring at all unless you want to make your network secure. and you do want to make your network secure. Why? The

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread LWB250
If you live in an urban or suburban area, your access point could easily be hijacked, for one. Allow that to happen and watch your bandwidth drop as the hijacker is an online gamer or is hosting bootleg pron sites. Also, if I can get into your access point, I can get into your computer. That

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Luther
Anything illegal that happens in your unsecured internet connection is your responsibility. They can charge you for anything that happens, and I didn't know isn't a defense. Luther On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:36:32 -0500, LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you live in an urban or suburban area,

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread LarryT
- From: LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express If you live in an urban or suburban area, your access point could easily be hijacked, for one. Allow that to happen and watch your

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread billr
Dan - I use a 64 bit encryption and assume I am safe...True or not? Many of my neighbors are not secured and often are stronger signals than my internal system. Neverr tried to hijack one, though. BillR If you live in an urban or suburban area, your access point could easily be hijacked, for

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Allan Streib
Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anything illegal that happens in your unsecured internet connection is your responsibility. They can charge you for anything that happens, and I didn't know isn't a defense. It is for the ISPs, though. Doubt that argument would hold water. -- 1983 300D

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread LWB250
WEP or WPA? It makes a difference, as WEP is a lot easier to crack for someone who wants in. That being said, I prefer WPA personal, not broadcasting my SSID, and MAC addressing for the ACL. It's not bulletproof, but it will be a lot less attractive to the teenage hacker that might try to crack

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread LWB250
Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express If you live in an urban or suburban area, your access point could easily be hijacked, for one. Allow that to happen and watch your bandwidth drop as the hijacker is an online

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Bill Gallagher
One should add that illegal activities between one state and another falls under Interstate Commerce which gets the FBI involved in the issue. Keep in mind, the FBI is after terrorisms and this issue means little to them. You are not alone in this issue.We live in the 21th Century under

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread billr
- BillR -Original Message- From: LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 26, 2007 5:41 PM To: billr [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Airport Express WEP or WPA? It makes a difference, as WEP is a lot easier to crack for someone who wants

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:45:31 -0700 (PDT) LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No loss of efficiency over very long runs. At the school that I work at, we have a number of intermediate data frames in each building, and the fiber runs between these and the main data frame are easily 100+ feet or

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:05:49 -0400 (GMT-04:00) billr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is WEP - not sure what WPA is - and come to think of it it is 128 bit, not 64, and uses a key of about 18 characters. My router just died and the on-line tech had me change it to 64 bit and part of my phone

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Gary Hurst
anyone who wants to use my internet is welcome. as long as it doesn't get slow for me, i encourage anyone to use it. many i day has there been a freak in a car with a laptop parked in front of my house. are you saying they have access to my data? On 8/26/07, LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[MBZ] Airport Express price

2007-08-26 Thread RELNGSON
Interesting.  If I didn't have several Linksys hubs already, I'd try it. $18 is pretty cheap for anything from Apple.  They must be changing their pricing policies.  The high price of their stuff has been what's always deterred me from trying it. Eighteen bucks must be resold stolen goods. I paid

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express price

2007-08-26 Thread LWB250
Uh, I'm not sure where that number came from, but you're not going to get one from the Apple refurb store for $18. Current refurb price is $79. MacDan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting.  If I didn't have several Linksys hubs already, I'd try it. $18 is pretty cheap for anything from

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Cathey
No loss of efficiency over very long runs. At the school that I work at, we have a number of intermediate data frames in each building, and the fiber runs between these and the main data frame are easily 100+ feet or more. At work we have miles of fiber on spools for testing. Works great,

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-25 Thread RELNGSON
Airport Express looks like it plugs into a 110v socket? That's all. Plug your printer into it plus the cable from the cable modem. No configuring at all unless you want to make your network secure. RLE ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-25 Thread Ed Booher
On 8/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's all. Plug your printer into it plus the cable from the cable modem. No configuring at all unless you want to make your network secure. and you do want to make your network secure. -- Knowledge is power... Power Corrupts. Study

Re: [MBZ] Airport Express

2007-08-25 Thread archer
Airport Express looks like it plugs into a 110v socket? That's all. Plug your printer into it plus the cable from the cable modem. No configuring at all unless you want to make your network secure. RLE - Interesting. If I didn't have several Linksys