Bob:
I use mine every day for a dial up connection at home where high speed is not available. I use the LAN port on the Base Station to connect to a 10bt hub and I connect to the internet via the Base Station's modem, using a Beige G3 running 10.2.8 and a flat screen iMac running 10.3. I wirelessly connect to the base station using an ibook with the standard airport card and a G3 Wallstreet running 10.3.3 using XPostfacto and a Cisco wireless card. Everything works fine. Only one thing you should be aware of, and that is that the Internet Connect software built into OS X will only connect or disconnect the base station's modem from a computer using an airport card. Unless things have changed, there is only one application that will control it from non airport wireless cards or a wired computer and that is ABS Modem Utility, an OS9 application that shows up in version tracker. Fortunately, the author has a beta Carbon version available here:
http://www.catsincharge.com/programs/beta/
that works just fine in OSX, up through 10.3.3. It's not posted on the Version Tracker site, however. I just happened to stumble across it when I was looking to see if the author had plans to upgrade it for OS X. I can't see that the Carbon beta release has been updated in quite some time, but I've been using it for 2-3 years with no problems. It sits in my dock and it the way I connect for 3 out of 4 of my computers. (The icon's kinda ugly though because it's a 9 icon, so I got something a little more pleasing from icon factory.)
The only problem I have seen is that occasionally good connections are reported in both Internet Connect and the ABS Modem Utility, even though the connection is not good (I can't go anywhere on the net). And I've had to disconnect and reconnect one or more (and sometimes several times) to get a stable connection, whereas if I disconnect my computer and hook my laptop up to the phone line directly, the connection will go through. This is an intermittent problem though and I tend to think that it is my phone line or ISP, not the base station per se. Since the laptop connects fine, I can only guess that the modem in the Base Station somehow requires a little cleaner connection.
All in all, I'm very satisfied with this set up (although I wish it were faster).
John
On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 03:26 PM, Bob wrote:
And I hate to ask this one, but...has anyone used the Snow ABS as a wireless **dial-up** Access Point rather than a broadband WAP? I know you can use it that way. I'm just wondering how well it functions that way.
Thanks for your help,
Bob
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