[Ti] [OT] Wireless Base Stations

[Yuta]

As  mentioned, the cable modem remembers the MAC address (hardware 
address, not Macintosh address) of whatever it's connected to and 
doesn't let anything else connect to the Internet, so you'll need to 
unplug the cable modem for at least 20 seconds to reset it.  After the 
20 seconds, plug it back in, and it will detect whatever's plugged into 
it whether it be a basestation, wireless router, etc.

Cheers,
Yuta

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:41  AM, Pat Hurley wrote:

>>
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:53:53 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [Ti] [OT] Wireless Base Stations
>> From: Christoph Hammann <chammann at mac.com>
>> Message-ID: <BA48D7E1.9470%chammann at mac.com>
>>
>> Am 13.01.2003 15:45 Uhr schrieb "Pete Zimowski" unter <petez at mac.com>:
>>
>>> Hi all!  Sorry for the bit of [OT} but it's kinda Ti related... 
>>> (not!)
>>>
>>> I need some help.  Have some friends... She has a Gateway PC (Win 
>>> 98), which
>>> is connected to internet via cable modem.  The cable company ran the 
>>> line
>>> into the basement and then snaked the coax to her second-floor 
>>> office, where
>>> it goes into the cable modem and into her PC.  He just moved his 
>>> fairly new
>>> iMac (OSX) from his business into his office in another room in the 
>>> house
>>> (on another floor), and they want to get him internet connected,
>>
>>> 2.  Install an Airport card in the iMac, and install a Wireless Base 
>>> Station
>>> of some kind in series with the PC.
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I don't think this will work, as the cable modem is likely paired to 
>> the
>> PC's ethernet card MAC adress. In a situation just like the one you
>> describe, I've had good success with Apple's "Snow" Airport base 
>> station,
>> connecting the PC via ethernet and the Mac via Airport. This way 
>> you'll have
>> an intranet as well. Apart from the base station, you'd need a patch 
>> cable
>> to the PC and an Airport card for the iMac.
>>
> What Christoph describes should work just fine -- just connect the 
> Ethernet cable from the cable modem directly into the base station, 
> and use the "LAN port" on the base station to connect to the PC, and 
> an airport card in the iMac.  Besides the "snow" ABS,  he could use 
> any standard 802.11b Access point from vendors like Linksys or Netgear 
> or D-Link or SMC or whomever, as long as they have some wired LAN 
> ports.
>
>
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