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| Thread ID: 27547 | 2002-11-25 03:53:00 | Mac + PC on an ADSL router? | falvrez (390) | Press F1 |
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| 101286 | 2002-11-25 03:53:00 | I admit (gratefully in some ways) I've had little to do with Macs over the years. We've had an understanding, Macs and I, that I don't play with them and they stay away from me. But now a freind (!) has a newish mac laptop (or whatever *they* call them) and also a win XP laptop that they want to connect to an ADSL router with built in hub so they can share ADSL and of course it works when either laptop is not there. I'm assuming that this is possible...surely? They haven't purchased a router yet, but if this does work, then will purchase one based on my advice. Has any soul out there accomplished such a task? I was looking at the DSE router/hub as the price seemed good at $298 inc... www.dse.co.nz Thanks for any advice from you mackers out there... |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 101287 | 2002-11-25 03:56:00 | Dynalink RT210 ADSL router should do the job just fine :) | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 101288 | 2002-11-25 03:57:00 | Thanks for the quick (instant!) advice Daniel - but teh RTA210 doesn't have a built in hub, does it? | falvrez (390) | ||
| 101289 | 2002-11-25 04:00:00 | What the router, and the ADSL modem see are TCP/IP packets. They don't "know", or "care", what the computer CPU, or operating system, is. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 101290 | 2002-11-25 04:15:00 | haha .. i missed the hub part .. sorry :D any ADSL router with hub should do it ... hubs are pretty cheap at the mo so it might be cheaper to get a hub and router separately rather than a ADSL router with built in hub .. I'm sure not .. but check it out :) As Graham has just mentioned those ADSL router don't really care what machines and OS u uses ... as long as u've set the appropriate IP, DNS, Gateway..etc. Cheers |
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| 101291 | 2002-12-08 01:17:00 | Well some progress on this one. Got the DSE router/hub, plugged in the windows laptop - all go. Not so with the Ibook...I can use internet explorer on the ibook to log into the router, and change any settings if needed, but I can't access teh net or email. Since I'm a newbie at macs, I'm sure there is some setting that I'm missing here...any ideas? (PS have searched this website and also using Google with no luck before hassling anyone here....) |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 101292 | 2002-12-08 02:06:00 | I don't know either. :D But have a look at Xtra's Help area (www.xtra.co.nz). It might be useful. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 101293 | 2002-12-08 03:34:00 | Thanks Graeme but yeah, not much help there. I forgot to mention that I'm really just looking (I suppose?) for the place to allocate the gateway's IP address...is that all that needs to be done on the mac for it all to go? |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 101294 | 2002-12-08 06:28:00 | Info Here (support.earthlink.net) will point you in the right direction. | Jim B (153) | ||
| 101295 | 2002-12-08 19:00:00 | Thanks Jim - this is almost perfect, but I forgot to mention it's OS 9.1 I searched that site but could not find a similar page to the one you gave for that OS. |
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