[iBook] Thoughts on wireless networking

[Angus Wallace]

G'day,

my guess is as follows (without knowing the details of your hardware)

Note - you need to be careful with the numbers. 
8Mbit/sec = 1Mbyte/sec = 1MB/sec 
(From the numbers and the detail you've provided, I think your units are
mbit/sec)

There are two main bottlenecks on the speed of your internet connection. The
first is at your connection to your ISP. This is around 6mbit/sec. Then you
have a wireless bottleneck. That's limiting the speec further on the other
machines. 802.11b has a theoretical maximum speed of 11mbit/sec. In practice,
4-5 mbit/sec is common, and varies a little with signal strength, the card, and
the computer, which I think explains the variation between your other
computers.

I've never shared files on a Mac (only in Linux), but I'd think it would be as
simple as going in to System Prefs, and enabling Personal File Sharing. Then
look on the network (from the other systems) for computers with shared drives
(of course, you'll need to go into Get Info for the folders you want to share,
and configure the preferences appropriately), and look at them. You might need
to enter your password...

HTH,
-Gus

Quoting vwmai <vwmail at mindspring.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> We now are a three Apple family and all three computers are hooked up 
> to the cable modem via a wireless router. The G4 is on the desk and 
> connected via ethernet. The G3/233 iMac is connected via a Belklin USB 
> wireless network adaptor and the iBook G3/900 has an original Airport 
> 11b card.  All the computers happily connect to the Internet. The wired 
> G4 gets close to 6 megs, the Imac which is a brick wall and a few rooms 
> away gets about 4 megs and the ibook at best is getting 3.2 megs even 
> sitting next to the router. Not sure what's up there. Any thoughts?
> 
> The bigger questing involves networking the machines together. I would 
> like to share files between the computers. I don't really have a lot of 
> experience doing this other than going machine to machine via ethernet 
> crossover cable. Are there any web sites dedicated to all the ins and 
> outs of networking Apple computers via a wireless system that include 
> the nuts and bolts as well as security topics? If you have thoughts on 
> it that you would like to share I would be interested in hearing those 
> as well.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
> On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Jim Manley wrote:
> 
> > Abandoned is the right word. They didn't even remove the movie trailer 
> > window from Sherlock. Using Apple music store to view trailers is a 
> > fery slow & cumbersome process.
> > ---
> > James Paul Manley
> > Albuquerque, New Mexico
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Alan Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> or use a widget (such as marquee, for example).  it seems to me that 
> >> apple has abandoned sherlock.  too bad they had to crush watson 
> >> first.
> >
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