Cable Modem How to setup on Air Port

fellowship

I had a dial up connection and found a way to wire via Cat6 Ethernet wire (hardwire from my Air Port) to my PC running Windows XP. I had my Air Port serving my PC and my iBook.



The Cable man came and installed Cable to my PC and Ran the Ethernet cable from the Cable Modem Straight to my PC.



What do I have to do to set up my Airport for this Cable Connection to Serve both my iBook Laptop and my PC. Like I had it before with the dial up but this time it is faster of course...



Thank you for your Help



Fellowship

alexander wilson

I'm assuming you have a base station then?



What I've done with a similar setup (only Windows Me Desktop instead of XP) is purchase a Linksys USB wireless network adapter and plug it into the Windows machine, and use built in Airport cards for my two iBooks (well, one's my wife's).



For info about setting the software up, visit:

<a href="http://www.macwindows.com/airportpc.html"; target="_blank">http://www.macwindows.com/airportpc.html</a>;

but you shouldn't have to make too many changes to your existing setup.



The important thing to remember is that you might need to turn your cable modem off (or unplug it even--putting it in standby won't do you any good) for up to 30 minutes before it will work with your Airport base station. It needs to "reset" itself to be plugged into a new device.



Good luck. If you already had your PC and iBook setup to work the way you wanted to with a dialup connection (which is what I started out with before moving to cable), then the hard part is over. It's pretty much the same setup as soon as you figure out your cable modem must be reset.



Alex.

fellowship

Thank you Alex,



I have it all working now.



Fellowship