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From: Jolly Roger on 7 Feb 2010 23:17 In article <070220101608226362%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <1jdjrvq.8sqqno1t80xcmN%kmorgan(a)spamcop.net>, Kathy Morgan > <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > > > Either one of these options sounds doable. Does the Airport Express > > offer WPA? (I've been reading the thread about securing wireless > > networks and it sounds like WPA is something I want.) > > pretty much everything supports wpa and wpa2 these days. > > > I don't need > > airtunes but having automatic updating would be nice. Michelle's post > > outlining the differences between Airport Extreme and Airport Express > > makes it sound like even the Express would be overkill for our purposes. > > that was my point. save your money and get something cheap. ask > questions here if you have any problems setting it up. it's not that > difficult. Keep in mind that with non-Apple routers, setting them up correctly and securely will not be as straight-forward or fast. Also, automatic updating will not be on by default, and many such routers barely get any updates anyway. You do get what you pay for. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Kathy Morgan on 8 Feb 2010 00:00 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > A limit of only ten clients (the Extreme can handle 50), and only one > ethernet port (for the WAN, with none for a LAN; Um, what's the difference? I thought WAN was Wide Area Network and LAN was Local Area Network. We have only one network, hiding behind a DSL router and switch. (One of them--probably the switch?--blocks incoming http requests and I don't know what else--I'm waiting for a more knowledgeable person to help me fix that.) Our network has the ancient Windoze patron computer, an iMac, and a Win 2003 Server. The two Mini's would replace the existing patron computer, so under the original plan one of them would be connected to the network by ethernet and share the connection with the other one. (The main reason for doing it that way is so I don't have to string cable around to the second one.) If we get a wifi router, it would connect by ethernet and the two Mini's would connect via WiFi. The Windows server's only reason for existence is to serve web pages with our online catalog; it provides no other service. -- Kathy
From: Kathy Morgan on 8 Feb 2010 00:13 nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > save your money and get something cheap. ask questions here if you have > any problems setting it up. it's not that difficult. Do you have any particular brand recommendations? LinkSys? NetGear? Cisco? Something else? (I haven't checked, but it's hard for me to imagine that any of them don't make wireless routers.) Or are they all likely to be pretty much the same and I can just go for cheap? -- Kathy
From: Kathy Morgan on 8 Feb 2010 00:13 Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote: > Kathy Morgan <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > > > Oh, that sounds even better. We'll be applying for a competitive grant > > to help pay for all this, and the more effectively we can use the money > > the better our chances of receiving the grant. Can you make any brand > > recommendations? It needs to be easy, since I'm the IT person and I've > > no experience with wifi, and accessible from a Mac. > > Belkin has a setup wizard that runs on Macs, so that's probably best for > you. Okay, thanks. I'll check it out and consider both that and the Airport Express. -- Kathy
From: Kathy Morgan on 8 Feb 2010 00:13
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > The Extreme is an extremely good base station, but for your small > application (with many of the users maybe being non-Mac) a third-party > base station or a refurbished or eBay-ed earlier Apple model may do what > you need at less cost. Ah, good suggestion! I hadn't thought about refurbished. I just happen to like Small Dog--I'll go see what they have. -- Kathy |