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| 431140 | 2006-02-16 05:12:00 | Hi! Have been asked by some friends to help them setup broadband at their home. Tricky thing is they have two computers, one WinXP home (workstation) and one Mac OS 10.3 (laptop) Currently the computers are not networked. They are keen to go wireless and to keep things as low-cost as possible (don't want to pay more than $40 a month - as they are light Internet users this shouldn't be too difficult). I checked Woosh's website and there is no wireless service to their area at the moment - so main options would be to go through either Telecom's network or Telstra's. So - my questions are... 1.) Has anyone had experience of wireless networking between Mac and Windows XP computers before? If so can you recommend any helpful websites or other sources/tidbits of information. 2.) Once the above is setup, how easy is it to enable Internet sharing. As the Windows XP is a workstation this will be the computer that the modem etc will be plugged into. Look forward to hearing your ideas :) Give me a yell if you need more details/clarification - cheers! |
darnit (9722) | ||
| 431141 | 2006-02-16 05:55:00 | I have no experience with the Mac O/S, however would imagine they have wireless network connectivity just like Windows based PC's. The best idea would be to use a adsl router with ethernet ports to connect the to unit to the internet. They dont have to be able to talk to each other, just the router. 1 step further would be to use a possible wireless card/solution on the laptop to connect to a wireless router regard than wireless internet connect!. ie, use whoosh for adsl to the router and wireless to the laptop. If you need to the 2 units to talk to each other/share files printers etc, you will have to install extra protocols on the network adapters. Sorry have no links for you to follow.. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 431142 | 2006-02-16 06:12:00 | Here is the easy solution. Buy an external router, wireless in your case. The mac can use its Airport card (if it has one). The mac uses all standard networking protocols setc.. TCP/IP, so there is nothing strange there. Mac OS 10.3 should automatically pickup any wireless networks. There is then no need to do anything speical with internet connection sharing and if your PC goes down it won't affect the mac. The mac can directly access the files on the PC through the built in samba client it has. Basically you just throw in smb://server-name/sharename in the Connect to Computer dialog and away you go. It can also be setup as a samba server so the PC can connect to it (all through the OS X GUI). |
gibler (49) | ||
| 431143 | 2006-02-16 08:06:00 | I have no experience with the Mac O/S, however would imagine they have wireless network connectivity just like Windows based PC's.That is correct, in fact Apple pioneered the concept of wireless networking at home. How old is the computer darnit? If it is less than two years old then it probably already has a wireless card installed. 2.) Once the above is setup, how easy is it to enable Internet sharing. As the Windows XP is a workstation this will be the computer that the modem etc will be plugged into.I haven't used this exact setup, but you shouldn't have any problems. Just go into the System Preferences > Sharing > Internet and select the appropriate option from the "Share your internet connection from" popup menu. :) |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 431144 | 2006-02-16 10:17:00 | Hi guys! Thanks for all your ideas :) MacCrazy - I think the laptop is a few years old (was upgraded to OS10.3 in the last wee while) - but the owner is happy to buy an Airport card. Based on all the ideas above, do you think something like a basic wireless modem/router (eg: www.ascent.co.nz) would do the job? Cheers! |
darnit (9722) | ||
| 431145 | 2006-02-17 01:04:00 | Yes should work well, and you can use the any of the 4 ports at the back to connect the Mac Laptop via cable until u get an Airport card! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 431146 | 2006-02-17 01:05:00 | Here is the easy solution. Buy an external router, wireless in your case. The mac can use its Airport card (if it has one). The mac uses all standard networking protocols setc.. TCP/IP, so there is nothing strange there. Mac OS 10.3 should automatically pickup any wireless networks. There is then no need to do anything speical with internet connection sharing and if your PC goes down it won't affect the mac. The mac can directly access the files on the PC through the built in samba client it has. Basically you just throw in smb://server-name/sharename in the Connect to Computer dialog and away you go. It can also be setup as a samba server so the PC can connect to it (all through the OS X GUI). Thought thats what I said! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 431147 | 2006-02-17 04:00:00 | Thought thats what I said! hmmm, but you said to use woosh and implied that extra protocols needed to be installed for peer-to-peer networking... :D Hope the original poster has some fun. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 431148 | 2006-02-17 06:43:00 | hmmm, but you said to use woosh and implied that extra protocols needed to be installed for peer-to-peer networking... :D Hope the original poster has some fun. To be pedantic, I said whoosh as an example & samba client loads the connectivity protocol to allow file sharing! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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