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<div>Their are many similar devicesbut I like to support those that
support Apple. the 2 companies that are best at that are
MacSence and Asante. I have installed them in many clients with
little or no problem.</div>
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<div>Asante <font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">
http://www.asante.com/products/</font></div>
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<div>macSense <font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1"
color="#000000"> http://www.macsense.com/</font></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I have an Linksys "EtherFast
Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch", BEFSR41<br>
connected to the cable-modem supplied by Comcast. 3 of the 4
ports<br>
are used for interconnections among a PowerBook G4, a B&W G3
desktop,<br>
and an HP Laserjet 2100M printer. (The latter is connected to
the<br>
Linksys through an Asante "AsanteTalk" bridge -- AppleTalk
<-> Ethernet.)<br>
It all came up very easily: plugged it together and they all
share.<br>
The Linksys lists for about $74 but it was on sale at CompUSA for
$50<br>
when I bought it -- might be some similar deals on the net.<br>
<br>
The Linksys sets up a nicely protected LAN inside my house (it has
fairly<br>
good port-blocking and lots of administrative stuff I can get to from
the<br>
LAN side with a web browser). It does DHCP to each of my
machines.<br>
Default setups were very easy, the userguide was extensive, and
there<br>
was a lot of detailed advice for the device (when I set it up in June
'03)<br>
at www.practicallynetworked.com/support/linksys_router_help.htm ---
hmmm.<br>
it's still there).<br>
<br>
Linksys has a similar device that supports WiFi.<br>
<br>
Just saying...<br>
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-- Pres<br>
(Well, one G4 does qualify me for this list,
doesn't it?)<br>
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RE (answer to request from DaleH):
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:06:05 -0500<br>
From: Richard Meyeroff <rem@meyeroff-c-c.com><br>
Subject: Re: [G4] [OT] DSL Router and Ethernet Hub compatibility<br>
To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."<br>
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the problem is that you can only connect one ethernet device directly
to the DSL modem at a time and the modem uses the MAC address of the
device to confirm mthe correct device is connected.<br>
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Thee only way to have multiple ethernet devices connec ted to a DSL or
Cable Modem is to use a Router switch that allows for DNS on the
private side of the connection. You attach the DSL Modem to the
Router Switch and then connect the 2 devices to the 4 port ethernet
switch that is part of the Router Switch. They cost about
$50.<br>
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I have done this with Verision ISDN, Verision DSL, and Comcast cable
using both Masence Xrouters and the asante Friendly net
routers.</blockquote>
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