Hey Joe,
If you have an Airport Extreme you should have two ethernet ports; a
WAN port for the modem and a LAN port for the rest of the network.
If you have an Airport Express (which is something I suspect) just
grab a switch (8 port unbranded 10/100 switches are under $50) and
plug the ADSL modem, Powermac and Airport into it.
Mal
On 28/05/2006, at 12:48 PM, Joe Baker wrote:
Hi all
Back in mid 2000 I brought a Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphic) model
(which can be fitted with an Airport card). Been using it with an
external ADSL model using the ethernet port. Early this year we got
our son a G4 iBook (as he began university) equipped with an
Airport Extreme card in it. We also got an Airport Exteme
Basestation so he could go wireless.
Problem (not having enough knowledge in these matters). We have one
ethernet cable going from the modem to the Power Mac. In order for
him to use the internet we have to take out the ethernet cable from
the Power Mac G4 and plug it into the Extreme Basestation. So only
one computer can be connected to the net at any one time. I thought
the easiest solution would be to get an Airport card for my old
Power Mac G4. If I go this way, do I need an earlier model Airport
card or can I instead use the more recent Airport Extreme card? I
was thinking of getting the Airport Extreme card but then saw the
following System requirement for the Airport Express card on the
Apple web site. It says
"System Requirements:
• The AirPort Extreme Card can be installed only in computers that
are AirPort Extreme ready. AirPort Extreme Cards cannot be used in
AirPort-ready computers with an AirPort Card slot.
Since I have an older Power Mac G4 (which is Airport-ready) does
this mean I can only put an older Airport card into it and not the
newer Airport Extreme cards? And if the old Power Mac G4 can only
take an old Airport card would this old card work with the Airport
Extreme Basestation.
Regards Joe
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