[G4] Wanting to go wireless!

Nat nbaker at discover-net.net
Thu Nov 13 05:46:30 PST 2003


On 11/12/03 9:09 PM, "Eric Volker" <ebv1 at charter.net> wrote:

> Like Joe, I'm successfully using my Quicksilver as a base station for
> my Dell laptop. I'm not sure if you can use more than one device at a
> time with a G4 base station, but I imagine it'd work. Setting it up was
> fairly simple, though I wouldn't recommend it unless you know a little
> bit about TCP/IP. You need to configure your wireless devices and the
> Airport card in the G4 with static IP addresses, since the software
> base station doesn't support DHCP. The trickiest part was getting
> encryption to work, though I found the right way to do it after some
> research. If you have any questions about any particulars, feel free to
> e-mail me.

Thanks Eric.  I think I will start with buying the one card for my G4 and
add things as I go.  I'm sure I'll be back with questions.  Even through my
Ethernet  hub network I had the PC going once, and haven't been able to see
it in consecutive tries, so we'll see how it goes.  



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