On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 7, 2011, at 4:26 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote:
This may be out of our bailiwick on this list, but here goes:
DP 1.8 G5, running Leopard 10.5.8, 4 gigs ram, hardwired into the
Airport extreme (saucer, model A1034)
an iPad 1
2 or 3 iphones (if daughter is home)
2 mac laptops (when both girls are home)
netflix via wireless (airport extreme) on the home entertainment
system
Hp 5-in-1 printer, which must be hardwired into the computer for
scanning.
Cable modem
She who must be obeyed has expressed displeasure with the Airport
Extremes performance, constant reboots and associated interruptions
in movies and playing on the iPad.
Is there one that is better for a home system than others?
Anyone had good luck with refurbished units?
Limits: G5 does not have an airport card, so needs hardwire
(currently ethernet) entry.
$$
WEP 128 bit security? Should I assume WEP 256 is better? Or is WPA
adequate?
WPA is better than WEP, there is no such thing as WEP256. All the
devices you have will accept WPA, and at least G.
I'd never heard of it before either, (Wep 256-bit) but was listed in
several product descriptions.
Will updating into the n-bands have a large increase of speed for
phones and laptops?
Only locally, and only for those devices that accept N connectivity.
Once you've got a decent connection to the wifi router, streaming is
mostly constrained by your internet speed to your door.
I've got a Linksys G router at home; picked up from Woot on sale for
$19, works fine to stream HBO to my iPad, and I've only got a 1.5 MB/
sec connection to the internet.
Just about any one you go buy will work.
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
thanks again, will check on the modem also, as another posted mentioned.
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