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From: Kathy Morgan on 8 Feb 2010 03:10 nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > however, i would get something that is 802.11n, because it not only > future-proofs you, but it's much more reliable than the 802.11g > routers, especially at longer distances. Okay, thanks, that was also my (admittedly very uninformed) notion about 802.11n. I think one of the reasons Macs appeal to me so much is because of the future-proofing. When I buy a Mac, I'm generally getting leading edge technology without being on the bleeding edge. To be honest, I'll probably end up going for the Airport Express as inexpensive and easy, since we have such low demand. There's no point, for instance, in trying to make our 256 KB Internet connection available to 50 users--fortunately, we're not likely to ever have more than 4 people at once trying to use it, since we're not likely to have budget to upgrade the connection speed. I could surely get by with a cheaper router, but I'm an unpaid volunteer and the reliability and ease-of-use is a major factor. -- Kathy
From: Mike Rosenberg on 8 Feb 2010 08:41 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > You'll have to check the specs and/or wait for advice from others. I'm > not sure whether the Express is actually a "base station" in the > "transmit to others" sense; I think it only receives WiFi signals sent > by another base station and hands that info off to stereo systems, > printers, etc.. (???) You think incorrectly. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Tom Stiller on 8 Feb 2010 09:07 In article <1jdl6sf.slhvqk1ipkmnhN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > > > You'll have to check the specs and/or wait for advice from others. I'm > > not sure whether the Express is actually a "base station" in the > > "transmit to others" sense; I think it only receives WiFi signals sent > > by another base station and hands that info off to stereo systems, > > printers, etc.. (???) > > You think incorrectly. He may think correctly, but what he thinks is incorrect. I think different. ;-) -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Jolly Roger on 8 Feb 2010 10:04 In article <1jdk7p6.1vy81mj1rn9h3eN%kmorgan(a)spamcop.net>, kmorgan(a)spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan) wrote: > 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? I've had good experience with Netgear's routers in the past few years. Like I said though, they are nowhere near as easy to set up as Apple's, and Netgear discontinued the models I purchased rather quickly, and stopped providing updates (which were few and far between anyway). -- 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: Jolly Roger on 8 Feb 2010 10:27
In article <1jdk6sm.afjjbzbq2kvcN%kmorgan(a)spamcop.net>, kmorgan(a)spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan) wrote: > 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. It would only really matter if you wanted to connect a machine to the Airport Express via Ethernet for internet access. Since you have a switch, you can just connect to that. So this isn't an issue for you. > (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.) That would be the router. You'll need to connect to the router's web-based control panel and map port 80 (and possibly 443 if you are running HTTPS) to the machine running the web server. > 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. Sounds right to me. You could consider the Express wireless network to be a guest-only network, since your other computers already connect to the existing router. Since the Express will be a separate network, that's actually not a bad solution for this use, in terms of security. > The Windows server's only reason for existence is to serve web pages > with our online catalog; it provides no other service. Just so you know, speaking as a system administrator of many years, that's a horribly insecure choice for a web server. A cheap Mac mini can serve web pages more securely, and probably more reliably to boot. -- 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 |