Is this (weird) wi-fi / iBook setup doable ?

[Ian Sidle]

> I am thinking very hard about getting ISDN here in Fiji, which is 
> considered
> "high speed" and "businesses only" .. And thus with about 250 US$ a 
> month
> very expensive (but restricted to 500 MB upload/download ! that is 17 
> MB a
> day . Wooo hoo)
Wow! What does it cost for dial up then? Over there, are the phones on 
the "pay per minute no matter what" phone plan?

> Anyways .. From what I hear, the telecom here offers only one ISDN 
> modem (to
> import any other would be against existing laws), and this one has 
> only USB
> connectivity ... So .. I cannot plug it into the airport station ....
Assuming they have mac drivers.. Actually it probably does since there 
is standard usb-serial-modem drivers in the latest version of mac os x. 
Found this out when hooking up a cell phone to my ibook.

> So, it means one of my iBooks will become "grounded" ... Hooked up to 
> the
> ISDN modem ... I also know that this then becomes an airport station 
> ... BUT
> . Is it possible to connect an airport station to this iBook via 
> ethernet
> .. Sharing the internet signal to the airport station, which then 
> emits it
> to other ibooks in the house ?
Sure. See no reason why it can't. A bit excessive (I've though about 
doing something like this in the past - except two AP's back to back).


> Anyone tried that ?
No, but it should be quite happy. All it takes is ethernet with a 
tcp/ip connection on it. Having the ibook run "internet sharing" in mac 
os x or ipnetrouter (and so on) would work just fine. Just takes a 
little more work to setup.

-Ian