On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:29 PM, - drive - drift - dream - wrote:
On 30-Jan-05, at 5:58 PM, Timothy Domst wrote:
The router still functions fine with a PC laptop and the
ethernet-wireless iMac, and with the old Powerbook up until I got
rid of her. It gets reset every time the iBook kills the wired
connection. The orange light that says the machine's transmitting
or receiving data still lights up when it's not working, the machine
just can't find the host. The router's connected through DHCP to my
DSL modem, it basically runs at factory settings all the time except
for the SSID is different.
Are the MTU settings the same on all the computers? The MTU is the
number that's usually either 1500 or 1492, and all the computers
should be the same duplex, like half-duplex or full-duplex, and the
same speed. In OSX it's all in the Network settings under ethernet,
if they are all on automatic then that eliminates my idea, because
they would match the settings from the router.
They probably are, because I have no idea what an MTU is or how it
would be different from one machine to the next...
I have a Linksys wireless router, and there are two subnets, one for
wireless and one for ethernet. This will be the same on all routers.
I use static routing, with as few computers as you and I have it's
easier to configure. You can go into the router and change from DHCP
to static, give each computer a different address, (i.e.
192.168.1.x), then go into the network settings of each computer and
make them static and give them one of the addresses you just put into
the router.
The router interface, when my wired machine goes down, will say it's
still connected, with a different address than the iBook that's
interfering. And sometimes it doesn't cause a problem, like if I
start pinging the router from the wired machine, and keep it pinging
while the files transfer, for some reason...
Try making the computers all static, all you need to do is tell the
router which addresses (192.168.1.x) have computers (routing table). I
am guessing you mean by the interface a webpage. It can be
disconnected from the internet if that's what you mean, that has
nothing to do with transfers between computers on the subnet. The
iBook MUST have a different address from the hard wired computer at all
times. Maybe you could try ftp instead of appletalk.
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