Broadban on my old imac?
Hi there A few months ago we finally got broadband at home, which has been great, and tonight I was wondering if I would be able to get my old imac to run it. It is a PowerPC G3 266Mhz running OS 9.2 The broandband modem we have at home is a wireless Thomson, but it has 4 cable jacks and I have a long enough cable to run to the room the imac lives in. Firstly, will my beloved imac be able to run broadband, and if so, how do I go about setting it up? Do I need to tweek some configure boxes in the control panel, or is there some software I will need to get first. Also will OS 9.2 allow me to do this? I am a relative novice to Macs - have collected a few vintage ones now and am enjoying them :) Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers Troy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Broadban on my old imac?
Troy The simple answer is yes. Your iMac will be able to connect to the net via ethernet no problems. You say you have 9.2 - so that should be fine. I run 9.2.2 on my PowerBook and it connects to my router via ethernet no problem. You might need to go into the TCP/IP Control Panel and tell it to use Ethernet. Been a while since I set up an OS9 machine. Simon On 3 May 2009, at 10:06, Kiwiboy wrote: Hi there A few months ago we finally got broadband at home, which has been great, and tonight I was wondering if I would be able to get my old imac to run it. It is a PowerPC G3 266Mhz running OS 9.2 The broandband modem we have at home is a wireless Thomson, but it has 4 cable jacks and I have a long enough cable to run to the room the imac lives in. Firstly, will my beloved imac be able to run broadband, and if so, how do I go about setting it up? Do I need to tweek some configure boxes in the control panel, or is there some software I will need to get first. Also will OS 9.2 allow me to do this? I am a relative novice to Macs - have collected a few vintage ones now and am enjoying them :) Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers Troy Simon Royal --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 9.2.2...) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Broadban on my old imac?
Just wanted to say - a big thanks to everyones help - I now have my imac up and running Cheers On May 4, 5:03 am, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Kiwiboy wrote: Hi there A few months ago we finally got broadband at home, which has been great, and tonight I was wondering if I would be able to get my old imac to run it. It is a PowerPC G3 266Mhz running OS 9.2 The broandband modem we have at home is a wireless Thomson, but it has 4 cable jacks and I have a long enough cable to run to the room the imac lives in. Firstly, will my beloved imac be able to run broadband, and if so, how do I go about setting it up? Do I need to tweek some configure boxes in the control panel, or is there some software I will need to get first. Also will OS 9.2 allow me to do this? I am a relative novice to Macs - have collected a few vintage ones now and am enjoying them :) Try plugging it in. It should work as is if you haven't changed the default settings. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
