Will it work?

A friend has 1 x Windows PC, 1 x laptop, 1 x Apple desktop computer.
Each machine has a modem and currently they use dial up. They've seen
my broad band set up with 2 x PC's and Vigor 2600WE router - they love
it!

For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the laptop
would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no nothing,
absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can fit a
wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?
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Malcolm

Malcolm Loades <news-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the laptop
> would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no nothing,
> absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can fit a
> wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?

You could either connect the Mac up to the router or use wireless. Same
as a PC really. TCP/IP is a common language :-) Could even share files
between Windows and MacOS.

Just get a wireless ADSL router - plug PC into router with ethernet cable.
Plug wireless card into PC if required. And do either with Mac.

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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:37:01 +0100, Malcolm Loades wrote:

> A friend has 1 x Windows PC, 1 x laptop, 1 x Apple desktop computer.
> Each machine has a modem and currently they use dial up. They've seen
> my broad band set up with 2 x PC's and Vigor 2600WE router - they love
> it!
>
> For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the laptop
> would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no nothing,
> absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can fit a
> wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?

Most Apple desktops come with ethernet port as a standard .. so, just plug
it into a router and set it to use dhcp and everything should be just fine.

"Malcolm Loades" <news-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> A friend has 1 x Windows PC, 1 x laptop, 1 x Apple desktop computer.
> Each machine has a modem and currently they use dial up. They've seen
> my broad band set up with 2 x PC's and Vigor 2600WE router - they love
> it!
>
> For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the laptop
> would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no nothing,
> absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can fit a
> wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?
> --

Apple's own 'airport' protocol seems to talk happily to 802.11b devices. My
wife's apple laptop can use my wireless network to connect to broadband
easily.

It has no idea what the windows or linux boxes on the network are, but
that's my fault 'cos I can't be bothered to configure it! I would imagine
newer Mac machines can share things more easily.

Dan.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:37:01 +0100, Malcolm Loades wrote:

> A friend has 1 x Windows PC, 1 x laptop, 1 x Apple desktop computer.
> Each machine has a modem and currently they use dial up. They've seen
> my broad band set up with 2 x PC's and Vigor 2600WE router - they love
> it!
>
> For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the laptop
> would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no nothing,
> absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can fit a
> wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?

Most Apple desktops come with ethernet port as a standard .. so, just plug
it into a router and set it to use dhcp and everything should be just fine.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, news-(E-Mail Removed) (Malcolm
Loades) wrote:

> A friend has 1 x Windows PC, 1 x laptop, 1 x Apple desktop computer.
> Each machine has a modem and currently they use dial up. They've seen
> my broad band set up with 2 x PC's and Vigor 2600WE router - they love
> it!
>
> For them the Windows PC would connect to the router by cable, the
> laptop would need a wireless device. What about the Apple? I no
> nothing, absolute zero, about Apple computers :-( I presume you can
> fit a wireless device, but would it 'talk' to the rest of the system?
> --
> Malcolm
>
>
Sounds the same as my setup, one Win98 PC, one MAC G4 dp. and a lappy
running XP on wireless. Also using a 2600We.

The Mac has to run OSX (or some 3rd party software) to see the Windows
boxes, but unless you run a server, or want to share files between the
pc/laptop and the MAC it won't be an issue.

The Mac I have has a 100mbps ethernet port, and I just connected it to
the router, set up an IP address (I don't use DHCP because I have mapped
ports!) and away it went !!

Steve

On 1 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:

>or want to share files between the pc/laptop and the MAC ...

Xerver is a free web server for windows, so could easily pull files
to the Mac, from that if you want...