Airport

[NewBlood]

Ok heres the deal im helping my teacher hook up a airport to his macs (i know macs sux) but for some odd reason it will not work right on systems 9.0 to systems 10.0 does anyone know anything about macs?? please help

 

[Fink]

I have hooked up everything from 8.3 to 10.1 mac OS's up to wireless routers, and all of them hooked in seamlessly. With the 9.x and lower, you would often need to install a set of drivers. Once those are installed, then in control panels - TCP/IP you should be able to select the card and then look for the wireless basestation.

Sorry, going off of my foggy memory and I don't have a mac handy. Check the base station and make sure that WEP is off initialy and that the IP address is something reasonable and DHCP is turned on. Once you hook it up and get everything running, set static IP's, enable WEP and use MAC address control - should keep the casual hacker out.

If you get really stuck, you might have good luck looking around practicallynetworked.com . They often have excellent setup tips

 

[NewBlood]

Thanx

Well thanx man got it up and working hooked up to 3 labtops already

 

[Fink]

Great!

Don't forget to enable WEP once you get it all working. Enjoy!

 

[rugby]

wep is nearly worthless for encryption and slows down your connection. If you're in a semi-safe environment and can do without, keep it off.

 

[Fink]

I agree...

But how would you define a 'safe' environment.

The nearest house to me is 500' away and I still use WEP as there is a major road nearby.

Guess it is how much you value the threat.

With 128 bit WEP, I lose less than 5% throughput. To be honest, I never miss it.