I'm shortly going to make the leap to broadband. I decided to try to cover all bases with a combined ADSL2/Wifi/VOIP router and bought the Billion BiPAC 7402 VGP - I also liked the fact that it would fail the phone back to PSTN if the internet dropped out or power was lost.
I'm still looking at various ADSL & phone plans and expect I will have to wait a while till ADSL2 makes it to the Albany exchange :( In the meantime I thought I would get the networking side of things up & running. Set-up will be: 1) iMac G4 flat panel running OSX 10.2.8 connected to router by ethernet. Since this also has a modem I intend to use this for dial-up fall-back if ADSL is down I was also thinking of setting this up to send/receive faxes and get rid of my fax machine (I don't do a lot of faxing nowadays!) 2) iMac G5 running 10.4.3 (soon to be upgraded to 10.4.6) this will be my main machine and will be connected wirelessly - but I connected it up (to the router) via ethernet to get everything working before going wireless. 3) 400 MHz G4 Ti Powerbook running OS 9.1 - I'm still using this a lot more than I should.... crashes and all!! My intention is to transfer everything to my main machine wipe this sucker clean and then see how it goes with OSX and a cheap PMCIA 802.11g card. In the meantime I hooked it up (to the router) via ethernet. So far, mostly it's working as I expected. In particular: - All machines can ping the router. - I can access the router set-up page from browsers on any machine. - All machine are being allocated IP addresses from the router. Where I am having a problem is in file sharing from the G5 iMac: - All machines can connect to shared volumes on the G4 powerbook - All machines can connect to shared volumes on the G4 iMac - Neither of the G4 machines can connect to the G5 iMac either via "go to server" on the G4 imac (which shows the G5 iMac but times out when trying to connect) or via the chooser on the Powerbook (which doesn't show the computer but if the IP address is input comes back with "No response from the server - Please try again") The problem does not seem to be the actual ethernet networking; if I turn on Personal Web Sharing both other computers can access the default web pages (both computer and personal) on the G5 iMac - however even though Personal file sharing is turned on I seem unable to access the computer at the afp//192.xxx.x.x address which it lists. Is there some other control box/ system preference which I need to activate? (The firewall on the G5 iMac is OFF at present so that shouldn't be a problem) What am I missing??!! ------------------------------- On a slightly different issue - if I connect to the internet via dial-up on the G4 iMac and turn on internet sharing then I can also browse from the g5 iMac (so far so good) however I don't seem able to connect to the internet via this shared connection from the OS9.1 powerbook. Is this a set-up issue or an inherent limitation of OS9. Would I have the same problem connecting to broadband served through the billion from OS9 also or is it just a feature of the software routing which the iMac is doing. Either way, would I be right to think that I would not have a problem if the powerbook was running OSX? Which leads me to: I realise the 400MHz G4 Ti powerbook is getting a bit long in the tooth but what would be the best OS to upgrade to and still have reasonable performance - could it handle tiger or would jaguar be better? TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
