[Ti] DSL

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 17:42 +0000 17-2-2003, Simon Chapman wrote:
>Wow! My sleepy little English village has finally upgraded its telephone
>exchange so I can have ADSL instead of my painful 56k dialup connection. If
>anyone can give me any tips on how best to incorporate a DSL ethernet (or
>usb) modem into my home Airport wirless/wired LAN, I would be grateful. I
>need to share the connection between two wireless TiBooks (one running OsX
>10.2.3, the other Os 9.2.2) and my dusty old 7500 desktop/G4/USB card (Os
>9.1) which is connected via ethernet cable to the Airport base station.
>
>Everything works fine with internet sharing at present but I would like to
>know if I can just plug the new DSL modem into the base station, reset my
>location prefs and start my new high-speed life.... I also need to keep an
>external 56k modem wired to the 7500 so that I can use it for faxing and
>hopefully I will be able to use the same phone line as the DSL once a
>splitter has been fitted....

In the office, my DSL modem is connected to an analogue telephone 
line, and then my wireless gateway (PC equivalent of an Airport base 
station) is connected by a short ethernet cable to that modem.  With 
that, four of us are wirelessly connected to the internet at 256k 
(total).  3 PCs, and my Ti-book.

Other ethernet connections could come directly from the DSL modem, if 
needed (up to 3 more, I think).

At home, I have the same DSL modem, but a version designed for 
connection to an ISDN line.
This gives me 256k connection at home, plus the (2) other ISDN lines 
are available for phone and fax.

I have two Powerbooks (this Ti, plus my old 3400c) connected by 
ethernet cable to the modem.

HTH

regards,  Trevor