Are you talking about the ethernet ports? 1 looks like a large telephone jack and the other is sort of rectangular with a double row of curved contacts. The telephone jack shaped one is a 10baseT ethernet port that uses the cat5 RJ45 cable to tie to a network while the other is called an AAUI port that is connected to a network via an adapter that can tie to either an RJ45 or appletalk cable depending on the connector. Only 1 port is usable at a time and the telephone jack shaped RJ45 is faster.
I've been seeing threads dealing with wireless PCI networking cards here, (Is there a USB wireless unit? If so, you will need a USB card in one of your PCI slots, which will probably require OS 9.1.) so someone should be able to help with that. I'm old fashioned (and already have a goodly investment in Cat5 cable all through my network) so haven't bothered with wireless. Most wireless base stations that I've seen also have at least 1 RJ45 port, so using cable from the Mac should be feasible as well. David Allen Jacob Tennant wrote: > On the back of my 7200/90 there a re 2 ports that look different but have > the same symbol? > > What are they??? > > Jacob Tennant > > PS: I am soon to be getting cable modem service and was wondering about the > compatability of USB wireless networking stuff with the Mac? Both of my > other PC's will be using wireless to connect to the cable modem. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
