Mac OS X: Wireless Network
Wireless Network
by MAC52 - 4/21/05 1:40 PMHi,
I was thinking on buying an iMac G5 at first but I can´t afford one right now as I thought so I think I´ll buy a Mac Mini. I have a deskstop PC and I have a cable modem internet connection. I want a wireless network. I was thinking on buying the Airport Extreme Base Station to do so. Is there another way (a cheap one) to achieve my wireless home network. A PC and a Mac?
Is there extra benefits from having the Airpot Extreme Base Station? I´m concerned also about interference caused by walls.
Wireless
by mrmacfixit
- 4/21/05 8:58 PM
In reply to: Wireless Network by MAC52
Most of the wireless routers will work with your Mac and the PC. The Mac will need an Airport extreme card and the PC will require a .11g card from a source other than Apple.
The Airport Extreme base station will work well too but is a bit more expensive than a Non-Apple solution.
Hope this helps
P
Wireless
by MAC52 - 4/22/05 7:26 AM In reply to: Wireless by mrmacfixit
Thank you for your response.
I didn't get too well the .11g part. You mean that if I buy any router other than Apple I need a .11g card and if a decide to buy the Apple router I can use any other card?
Also can you tell me a little bit more about possible interference. My PC is in the living room and my Mac Mini will be in my room. There are two walls that will separate them. I read that the Apple router works with radio waves so it helps with the inteference problem. Are all kinds of routers the same?
Wireless Networking
by mrmacfixit - 4/22/05 1:01 PM
In reply to: Wireless by MAC52
All Wireless routers use Radio Waves to communicate between the router and the computer.
An Airport Extreme card for the Mac will use the standard called 802.11g. Apple does not make airport cards for the PC so you will have to get a card from another manufacturer. Make sure it is also an 802.11g card. 802.11g is currently the faster speed card. If you buy the Airport Base Station (Router) is will be more expensive than a Non-Apple wireless Base station (Router) but will work just as well.
These base stations and cards should work for at least 75 feet or so without a problem.
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Recommendation
by MAC52 - 4/25/05 6:34 AM In reply to: Wireless Networking by mrmacfixit
Could you please give me a recommendation to buy a non-Apple router. Not pricey.
(NT) Linksys, Netgear or Google for wireless router
by mrmacfixit - 4/25/05 7:10 PM
In reply to: Recommendation by MAC52
Routers
by MAC52 - 4/29/05 7:58 AM In reply to: (NT) Linksys, Netgear or Google for wireless router by mrmacfixit
Thank you for your help.
Mac Mini
by n2ifp - 4/29/05 11:00 AM In reply to: Routers by MAC52Just be aware, order the Mac Mini with the card already installed. Othwerwise it needs the internal antenna and daughter board installed first. Those essentials are NOT included with the card. I don't know if an Apple Dealer can add the required items first or not. It's not an operation for the neophyte to add the Airport card.
HTH,
Larry Winward
Wireless IP address assignment
by squirri - 5/24/05 2:00 PM In reply to: Wireless Network by MAC52All I want is a wireless base station that I can plug into a spare port on a switch on my home network. We've got Macs and PC's and the wireless stuff is for PC laptops(XP) that all have wireless capability.
The cable modem is hooked up to a G3 with 2 NICs running IPNet Router(great product btw), so one NIC has the ISP IP and the other has 192.168.0.1 and is the gateway used by the home machines in their TCP{IP settings. Works a treat.
How do you go about assigning IP addresses on a wireless network? I don't use DHCP at the moment(and I've heard that that can get you into trouble with some ISPs if you use 192.168.x.x like I do). In my case a paper list of the assigned addresses does the trick for the 'wired' machines!
In an ideal world, the IP address that these PC's use should be the same as the ones they already have(OK I'm naive..) on the wired network
Any help much appreciated.
IP addresses
by mrmacfixit - 5/24/05 5:03 PM
In reply to: Wireless IP address assignment by squirri
Well I guess your way is probably as good as any other. Here's how mine is set up:
Cable Modem - Router - Hub - Airport.
The router has 3 Macs connected to it, the Hub(have not got a switch yet) is connected to the 4th port on the router. It also has 1PC, 3 Macs and an Airport Base station connected to it.
Router supplies DHCP to all the wired machines and the Airport. 192.168.0.xxx which is the standard for private networks. The Airport assigns DHCP to the wireless iBook in the range 10.0.1.xxx
you should have no trouble with the IP address as the Cable company do not use the 192.168 range. Some DSL company's do though.
In this configuration the G3 is not sharing anything, only has one NIC in use and does not have to run IPNet Router. I could assign static IP addresses to the wireless devices but it's easier to go with DHCP. You will find that most of your machines will stay with the same IP address anyway.
The procedure for that is somewhat different for each wireless access point.
hope this helps, a little
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