Very small Airport Extreme networks
At the moment I have a G4 tower which is connected to the familiy peripherals such as the printer and the ADSL modem, and my own iBook which is sometimes connected to my studio peripherals or which I can take anywhere else in the house. At the moment if I need to print or connect to the internet I just connect an ethernet cable from the iBook to the G4 tower. This works very well but soon I would like to be able to connect these compuetrs wirelessly. If I can do this without an Airport base station it would be useful as it is not at all difficult to start up the G4 tower when I need to connect to the internet or printer.
The Apple website says that with Airport Extreme, computers can connect using Rendezvous without a base station, what sort of range would would this connection have? Do both computers have to have Airport Extreme cards rather than just Airport for this to work? and if so, are Airport extreme cards compatible with Graphite G4s?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Andrew
The Apple website says that with Airport Extreme, computers can connect using Rendezvous without a base station, what sort of range would would this connection have? Do both computers have to have Airport Extreme cards rather than just Airport for this to work? and if so, are Airport extreme cards compatible with Graphite G4s?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Andrew
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Originally posted by SquidThing
what sort of range would would this connection have?
It may not be quite as good as a base station, but it'd still be pretty good. If you have problems with it, you can always buy a base station and then use it as a relay-like device to take the signal from the tower and rebroadcast it.
Originally posted by SquidThing
Do both computers have to have Airport Extreme cards rather than just Airport for this to work? and if so, are Airport extreme cards compatible with Graphite G4s?
Yes, both computers will have to have whatever respective card they can take, but like I said before, AE is backwards compatible with A.
It depends on which Power Mac you have as to whether it will take an AE card or not. Check these Power Mac profiles to find out which yours has. If both machines have AE, then you'll be able to network them at faster speeds. If either has only Airport, then slower speeds will apply. No matter how you slice it, it's unlikely that your internet connection will speed up.
Andrew