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Monday, March 11, 2002

New feature Test post... 3:08:20 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Finally...some Airport success! I haven't been updating Mac Net Journal a lot today because I decided to experiment a bit with running the Airport Software Base Station software, set up on Natalie's laptop under OS X 10.1.3, so that I can move all around the house and remain connected to the Net, just so long as her machine is up and running. I was about to give up when I changed one last setting to get DNS up and running through our ISP, and now I am working on wireless for the first time ever! If you want to get a wireless connection up and running and you don't have a hardware base station on hand, there is one piece of software that will get you up and running. Will Clarkson has created a great tutorial that bundles IPNetShareX for an all-in-one solution to enable the software base station capabilities of OS X. There are definite drawbacks to using a Software Base Station though. I can only remain connected to the Net when the other AirPort-equipped PowerBook is running, and the capabilities of the Software Base Station are more limited than a $300 AirPort Base Station or one of the third-party base stations. But until I pull the trigger on a hardware base station, this is a good way to be able to work in any room in our house without any wires, just so long as the battery keeps me running! [Mac Net Journal] 8:05:13 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

A bargain base station Turn a $150 Orinoco RG-1100 into a $300 Apple AirPort Base Station, for free [80211b News] [Mac Net Journal] 8:03:43 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

I've caught the wireless bug After toying with an 802.11b wireless connection from one PowerBook to another, which has allowed me to work anywhere in our house over the last couple of days, the temptation to jump fully into wireless computing has been too much to fight off. So today, after returning home from another book research trip, I pulled the trigger and ordered an SMC Barricade access point to get both Natalie and I up and running with wireless at home once it arrives in a couple of days. Meanwhile, I am still working with no wires and loving it. I should mention that I decided to go with the SMC access point despite the well-documented technical support and documentation issues noted in places like the Macintouch reader reports. Why? Well, for about half the price, the SMC does just about everything that the AirPort Base Station does. And the SMC has four Ethernet ports - three for the LAN and one for the WAN - while the AirPort Base Station has two ports. I realize that the Apple product may be easier to set up and use, but I have futzed around with computer gear for ages and I doubt that anything I run into with the SMC, just so long as the unit is functional, will be a major headache for me. [Mac Net Journal] 8:03:14 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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