Re: 802.11g base units besides AirPort?

[Harry D . Corsover]

For me, ignorance may have been bliss.

On Mar 29, 2004, at 9:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Lynksys will work, as well as any others.
THe biggest problem i've seen is that most of the non-Apple units fail
horribly at 1. allowing Appletalk (ie for printing, filesharing, etc), 
and 2. Apple
interfaces..

I did have an SMC unit (dunno who'se chips it runs on) that actually 
had a
set IP# for configuartion, so you could just http: right into it to 
configure.
but it still refused AppleTalk, which meant that I had to manually 
connect to a
printer in order to print. Considering that the cost difference is 
only about
$80, it wasn't  worth the hassle of going to a printer to connect, 
resetting
my appletalk , rebooting, and hopefully getting a connection..

I never had to do any of this. My LaserJet 2100TN (with Ethernet 
interface) is plugged into one of the Ethernet ports. I just print to 
it from any computer on the wireless network. Never had to configure 
anything on either SMC unit.

And then, I still couldn't do Appletalk filesharing to another Mac on 
the
network because Linksys (as well as most of the others that I looked 
at) refused
to offer routing of Appletalk over the ethernet-wireless bridge.

File Sharing also just worked. I had no idea whether AppleTalk was 
being used, and never dealt with IP addresses.

All this hassle just to save $80 on a product I would use EVERY DAY? I 
don't
think so.. I sold the units, then went & bought a $149 brand new 
Airport base
station, which works perfectly with everything I have, fully 
integrated, fully
controllable, and hey, it even looks cool.

 But hey, to each his own....

For me, range was an issue. The SMC has about twice the range of an 
ABS, and was half the price when I bought it several years ago. For 
some reason, though, my new PowerBook G4 (with Airport Extreme card) 
didn't have the same range as my old iBook did with the older SMC unit. 
The new "g" unit gave me a bit more range. (I tried every channel, and 
didn't see any difference on either unit).

Regards,

Harry Corsover

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