[P1] Questions about Airport

[Allan Hise]

On the flip side, ethernet will be faster. But Airport is way easier.
You may have problems if you have a 2.4GHz cordless phone.
Ethernet is more secure, if that matters. Airport can be made 'secure
enough' for home users.

Allan

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Richard McKay wrote:

> Karsten,
>
> The others should have won you over by now...if not...go airport. You will
> wander around the area with a silly smile on your face in pleasure from the
> freedom it allows. Cables are ugly and belong in the Windoze world.
>
> There is a document around on how to set up an airport network on the apple
> site called "designing airport networks 2.pdf" but I can't seem to find the
> link right now, if you don't find it then I can send it to you off list if
> you wish. (1.3 MB in size).
>
> There are sure to be other chapters of books on the subject as well if you
> search a good computer book store in your area or online.
>
> HTH,
>
> P.S. If I didn't mention it before...go airport.
>
> Richard
> --
>
> Karsten WEB.DE wrote the following:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am almost sure that this topic has been dealed with dozens of times around
> > here. But I am new to MacOS X and to the iBook and I need some advice about
> > Airport.
> >
> > So, the first question is (this may make all further ones obsolete):
> >
> > Is there a brief description of Apple's Airport Technology available?
> > I would be glad to hear about websites and PDFs as well as books.
> >
> > I once used David Pogue's article titled "How to connect two Macs" to deal
> > with this matter back in the days of Apple Talk.
> > This article was available for free somewhere in the web and it was taken
> > from one of his formidable books
> >
> > Now I don't use AppleTalk anymore but would like to connect an eMac with an
> > iBook.
> > Is there such a detailed explanation available for these new devices like
> > that one of David Pogue?
> >
> >
> > I am still figuring out wether I should opt for an ethernet connection or
> > for a wireless network using two airport cards.
> >
> > For the ethernet connection I would need a hub and a special cable.
> > For Airport I would need two cards.
> >
> > So, both options aren't cheap and I would be very unlucky if I had opted for
> > the wrong one.
> >
>
>
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