On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Frank & Susan Malinowski
wrote:
> I am thinking of going to DSL access at home and I would also want to
> be
> able to use my Powerbook G4Ti400.
I have DSL with all my Macs networked together. In particular, I have
a G4 Titanium and a StarMax 3000. The Ti is wireless/Airport and the SM
is hardwired. (There is an iMac (hardwired) and a venerable Mac II
(hardwired), and even a MacPlus in the mix too!)
If all you have are two computers, then all you need is the Airport.
It is trivial to set up what amounts to 2 two CPU LAN. The SM connects
to the Airport LAN port via a cable, the DSL connects via cable to the
WAN port of the Airport, and the Ti book goes wireless. Very simple
really. If you want to add more CPUS with Airport cards, no problem.
The Airport handles multiple CPUs. I really like the Airport wireless
freedom for the laptop, and everyone else I have talked to who have
gone this route has also. So if you can afford it, get it.
What gets a bit more complicated is if you need to hook up another CPU
via a CABLE to your LAN (such as what I have done). In this case you
will need a switch or a hub to farm out the DSL line to every computer.
I recommend a switch, since it is asynchronous and multiple lines do
not share the same bandwidth as you would do with a simple hub. This is
useful for your local network. I often play DVD, animations, music over
my LAN. The Ti & iMac have T1000 and can push a serious number of bytes
across the network. Of course, when you go outside to the world, you
will need to share DSL bandwidth, so a hub vs switch in that case makes
little difference.
Now given switch/hub + Airport + DSL, there are many ways to hook them
up. The way I have it is the DSL goes into the Airport, the Airport to
the switch, the switch to the hardwired CPUs. I do it this way because
the Airport acts a firewall and prevents unauthorized access of my home
machines from the outside. The Airport is the gateway from my LAN to
the WAN and provides DCHP & NAT services. Works quite well. The
Airport, BTW can be configured for dial-in access into your LAN/WAN/DSL
if you do desire.
Let me also add that until the DSL line was installed, the Airport
connected to the internet via PPP/modem and this worked well too. Of
course sharing a 22.8k line was not so fun, but for small stuff it
wasn't so bad.
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