Re: Help needed with proposed airport network

[Calypso Organization 1]

At present we have;
 a PB5300C /OS 9 all fired up with a Proxim card;
 a Power PC upgraded  540C /OS 8.6 with an enterasys card;
 a PowerMac 7600 / OS 9 upgraded to G3 using a Sonic Crescendo but no radio
card facility;
 and
a recently aquired iMac Blue which only has USB ports. We have an Apple
Airport and several spare WIFI cards all of which are compatible with any
proposed system ( mainly Wavelan Gold and Wavelan Bronze mainly).

Does anyone have any ideas on a good or the the best way to put this puzzle
together so that possibly we could use a "landline " from the 7600 to the
Airport and then wireless the 5300 and the 540? or, better still, is there a
way of connecting the iMac somehow into the loop bearing in mind it only has
USB outlets and we cannot see a means of equiping it with a card as it is a
tray loading and not slot loading version?

Sorry some of this is strictly speaking "off-topic" but its all to get the
powerbooks functional n the end.

Thanks n advance,

Gerald Jennings
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Re: Help needed with proposed airport network

[Bruce Johnson]

On Nov 30, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Calypso Organization 1 wrote:
At present we have;
 a PB5300C /OS 9 all fired up with a Proxim card;
 a Power PC upgraded  540C /OS 8.6 with an enterasys card;
 a PowerMac 7600 / OS 9 upgraded to G3 using a Sonic Crescendo but no  
radio
card facility;
 and
a recently aquired iMac Blue which only has USB ports. We have an Apple
Airport and several spare WIFI cards all of which are compatible with  
any
proposed system ( mainly Wavelan Gold and Wavelan Bronze mainly).

Does anyone have any ideas on a good or the the best way to put this  
puzzle
together so that possibly we could use a "landline " from the 7600 to  
the
Airport and then wireless the 5300 and the 540? or, better still, is  
there a
way of connecting the iMac somehow into the loop bearing in mind it  
only has
USB outlets and we cannot see a means of equiping it with a card as it  
is a
tray loading and not slot loading version?
AFAIK all iMacs can accept an airport card.
If not, it and the 7600 can use a ethernet to wireless bridge such as:  
 which  
will work with anything that sports an ethernet port.

With the airport you can connect the ethernet port to a small ethernet  
switch ($10-$50, I found several under $20 via froogle. Trendnet is a  
decent cheap brand) and the iMac and 7600 to that via wired  
connections. If your physical layout works with that, this is the  
simplest solution:

Powerbooks - - - -Airportswitch---7600, iMac.
Problems arise if you've got a graphite airport and are connecting it's  
ethernet to a broadband internet connection.

In that case you need to get a broadband router instead of a switch,  
but they can be gotten with several wired ports as well, enough to  
connect the wireless and wired systems to the internet.

  internet
  |
PB- - - - -Airport--router--7600, iMac
If you've got a snow airport, it's easier, because it has two ethernet  
connectons, one for the broadband WAN connection and one you can use  
for the wired segment of your LAN.

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