Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-11 Thread Lloyd White
Thanks Stewart and James, It looks as if the USB for the Windows is worth a try. I will take a trip to Pinjarra with some cables and see what I can do. Lloyd > > Hi Lloyd, > > Options may be limited if they don't want to spend much. > > Lowest cost option: > The Speedstream has a USB port

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-09 Thread Stuart Evans
Hi Lloyd, Options may be limited if they don't want to spend much. Lowest cost option: The Speedstream has a USB port as well as an Ethernet port. The PC can run on the USB port. They can then run an Ethernet cable to the iMac. All they would have to do is figure out a "safe", workable & aesthet

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-09 Thread James / Hans Kunz
if bigpond is a broadband connection then i have to say no in sharing phone lines & 2 modems, but reasonably cheap is to buy a router, it connects to the existing siemens modem & gives you 4 connections (lan/ ethernet) for 4 computer in that way you can share the broadband & have both comput

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-09 Thread Lloyd White
Hi Ronni, Craig and Daniel. Thanks for your information so far. I have found out more! His iMac is a G5 PC OS 10.3.9. His wife's is an Intel R Celeron R CPU 2,4 GHz. He does NOT have a wireless card built in. Nor does her Windows computer. It could be done for about $280 for both. But that is t

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Forsdyke
You could look into Ethernet over power, where the signal is transmitted over the electrical wiring in your house. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 06/10/2009, at 15:43, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Lloyd & Craig, If the iMac is only running OS 9, there is a chance it mig

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-06 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Lloyd & Craig, If the iMac is only running OS 9, there is a chance it might not have WiFi - an Airport Card (802.11b or 802.11b/g) The Airport Cards were Optional on the iMacs until 2005 So you need to know this as well as the Windows having WiFi also. You can't have a wireless Network i

Re: Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-05 Thread Craig Bruce
Generally what you'd want to be looking for is adding a wireless router. You could replace the broadband modem completely with one that also does wireless or add a wireless router like an airport extreme/express to add wireless to the existing modem -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088

Connecting Mac to Windows broadband modem.

2009-10-05 Thread Lloyd White
Hi everyone. I have a friend with an iMac, OS 9. His wife has a Windoze computer with a BigPond broadband connection. His is upstairs and hers downstairs so they do not want any cables. They have asked for my help. God bless them!! What sort of information would I need to get from her re the Win