Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-05 Thread Clyde McLennan
Hi, I'm a little paranoid about backup, having worked in IT, and also having to restore after disk failures from a backup. For my home computer, beside TimeMachine backup, I also backup to an external drive idrive.com where there is a free 2GB, or for $50pa a massive 150GB. You ca

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-05 Thread Ronda Brown
On 05/07/2009, at 2:39 PM, Warwick Gaff wrote: WOW? I don't know how to respond to that one. Windows is just a corrupt piece of software waiting to fall over. When I used to work for a school years back we constantly lost data from our backups and ended up teaching our staff members to

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Warwick Gaff
WOW? I don't know how to respond to that one. Windows is just a corrupt piece of software waiting to fall over. When I used to work for a school years back we constantly lost data from our backups and ended up teaching our staff members to backup themselves. WOW! It's nice to know people still ca

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Ronda Brown
On 05/07/2009, at 11:57 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: Ronnie, Please let me have the name of your magic recovery software. Sounds good! regards Kevin Hi Kevin, The program is 'Recover My Files' only works in Windows, (pity they don't have a version for Macs). I purchased it a long time

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread KEVIN Lock
Ronnie, Please let me have the name of your magic recovery software. Sounds good! regards Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Unsubscribe -

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Warwick, On 05/07/2009, at 12:29 PM, Warwick Gaff wrote: I sincerely hope your friend recovers from losing her laptop. Not an easy thing losing something so vital and full of information. Yes, it is a shocking situation to have to cope with. Unfortunately she is a Windows User and

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Warwick Gaff
Thanks Ronda I've got a Netgear version of the Airport Extreme and the connections running nicely with it plugged into the shared USB port. The Netgear has a built in PDP Dialler unlike the Airport Extreme. As far as the AEBSn goes I have successfully in the past shared a USB port on one of my a

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello again Warwick, On 05/07/2009, at 9:00 AM, Warwick Gaff wrote: Understandably DSL and cable have different login procedures. 3G is different and convinced that it could be sharable through an Airport base station with USB sharing (3G ONLY). The USB port on the 802.11n AirPort Extrem

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Warwick Gaff
Yes, only if reported. Be interesting if they issued her with the same mobile number once she gets the new USB dongle. I'm aware they do this for mobiles while tracking the IMEI number. Regards Warwick On 5/7/09 9:59 AM, "Ronda Brown" wrote: > > Hi Warwick, > > On 05/07/2009, at 9:00 AM, Wa

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Warwick, On 05/07/2009, at 9:00 AM, Warwick Gaff wrote: Robert The particular 3G device is mobile based and has never required me to enter on any PC/MAC either a username or password unless accessing account details from there websites and my email. Virgin verbally informed me that t

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-04 Thread Warwick Gaff
Robert The particular 3G device is mobile based and has never required me to enter on any PC/MAC either a username or password unless accessing account details from there websites and my email. Virgin verbally informed me that they link user downloads with specific mac address' that are static a

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Howells
On 03/07/2009, at 10:18 PM, Warwick Gaff wrote: What if your login doesn't require password and internet? Virgin Broadband does not require user name and password... I'm unsure of other carriers using this technology. Warwick Warwick I believe you are misinformed ! You are saying an

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-03 Thread Warwick Gaff
What if your login doesn't require password and internet? Virgin Broadband does not require user name and password... I'm unsure of other carriers using this technology. Warwick On 3/7/09 7:13 PM, "Robert Howells" wrote: > > > On 03/07/2009, at 7:01 PM, Joe Baker wrote: > >> >> Hi All a

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Howells
On 03/07/2009, at 7:01 PM, Joe Baker wrote: Hi All again We solved it. But I would still like to know some basics. Being a novice do you really require a Modem Router to connect to the telephone line? Also my old backup system has been usurped by my son who has filled it with his stu

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme - now backup

2009-07-03 Thread Joe Baker
Hi All again We solved it. But I would still like to know some basics. Being a novice do you really require a Modem Router to connect to the telephone line? Also my old backup system has been usurped by my son who has filled it with his stuff. So its time to update. What is a good syst

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme

2009-07-03 Thread Ronda Brown
On 03/07/2009, at 6:40 PM, Joe Baker wrote: Hi all I admit that trying to get Airport Extreme to do what I want is a battle. It is a continual source of frustration. I have an iMac and connect to the internet via Airport Extreme connected to a modem router connected to the phone line.

Re: Connecting to Airport Extreme

2009-07-03 Thread Joe Baker
Hi all I admit that trying to get Airport Extreme to do what I want is a battle. It is a continual source of frustration. I have an iMac and connect to the internet via Airport Extreme connected to a modem router connected to the phone line. (Actually when I brought the Airport Extreme I