On 2 Aug 2004 at 7:57, GDB-Dell-WinME wrote:
>I recently posed the following to members of the g-list (Apple Mac G machines) and I
>would also be interested in any ideas this list might have. I was thinking something
>along the lines of using a PC as a bridge between the upstairs and downstairs
>networks...
>
>I have been thinking about this for awhile and I think the time has come to
>finally decide how best to handle this situation. I have a computer room
>downstairs, populated mostly with PC's, including my primary file server
>system. Also in this room is where my cable modem and Dlink wap/router are
>located, as well as a 16 port 10 mbit ethernet hub. Most of my network is
>wired, including this B&W G3 here in my bedroom, but I also have a couple of
>notebooks which I use naturally with the wireless portion of the network.
>Everything works fairly well, I can access the internet from all the
>machines and for the most part the PC's peacefully co-exist with my Macs for
>now. Here is where the monkey wrench gets thrown in for good measure, I
>want to establish a second base of operation upstairs to be comprised mostly
>of my Macintosh hardware collection consisting of a couple of beige G3s, a
>PM 7200, Quadra 700 and a couple of LC IIIs. Now all of my computers have
>ethernet capabilities so I want to stick with that for tying them all
>together, so my question is, what is the best way to do this. It seems to
>me some sort of wireless access upstairs and perhaps a second hub would be
>the logical way to go, but I am open for suggestions. I would prefer to
>keep the costs to a minimum as I already have a substantial investment with
>the various systems I have accumulated. Many TIA for any help provided.
>
>Just a message from Doug...
Minimum cost will probably be to set up an eight-port hub or switch in
your room with the Macintoshes, and then run a cable from the uplink
port of the hub or switch, downstairs to the 16-port hub. This will
probably cost about US$150 for the hub and cabling.
Note that some of the older Macintoshes may not be able to get IP
addresses automatically from some DHCP/bootp servers - we've had off-
and-on problems with this everywhere I've worked. Assigning and hard-
coding an address on the Mac works every time, though.
Hope this helps,
Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
"This is only temporary, unless it works."
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