[jhb] Re: IT Guru There?

  • From: Mike Lucas <mhlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:24:52 +0000

I often have two, sometimes three, wireless laptop connections to my router at the same time as 3 or 4 wired connections and with a variety of operating systems - W7, XP and Linux: so far no problems.
An old friend is just in the process of upgrading an old W2K machine to a brand-new iMac - it will be interesting to see whether it can see and talk to the XP machine also on his LAN. He has previously tested a Mac laptop to confirm that it picks up his wireless network OK for the internet, but we still have reservations about the interoperability of Macs and Windows machines on the same LAN. 

Mike L

On 13/01/2011 09:30, Fossil wrote:

If the Asus can get through on wireless it seems to push the problem source
away from the router and back to the Mac. Unfortunately I know sod all about
these - or anything else beginning with "i"..

bones
bones@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 13 January 2011 09:14
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: IT Guru There?

I often run with the two ethernet connected desktops, plus my wireless
connected Asus laptop, with no problems. The laptop is in another room.
Before buying the Asus I had a very slow Toshiba laptop and that was a
bit more location sensitive but still connected OK.

My own three are all on different OS. Laptop on Visa. This one on XP
Home and the FSX machine on W7 64 Pro. I'm wondering if the Mac OS could
be the problem?

Gerry Winskill

On 12/01/2011 22:36, Fossil wrote:

That will explain why her PC is hunting for other networks - it is doing a
wireless sweep to see what it can find.

I don't know much about Netgear but is it happy when you try a wireless
connection with the two PC's also running on Ethernet? I know I had to
fiddle with my router settings to get Jen on Wireless at the same time as

I

had the PC and laptop on Ethernet.

bones
bones@xxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 12 January 2011 12:14
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: IT Guru There?

Wireless. Sorry, forgot to add that.

Gerry Winskill

On 12/01/2011 11:52, Fossil wrote:

Is the Mac connecting via Ethernet or Wireless?

bones
bones@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On

Behalf

Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 12 January 2011 11:19
To: JHB Restricted
Subject: [jhb] IT Guru There?

This machine and my FSX machine are wire plugged into my Netgear router.
My laptop can also automatically access the internet, via the router,
from anywhere in the house.

One of my daughters is with us at present. Her laptop is an Apple Mac.
When the two machines in here are running, her Mac has difficulty in
accessing the network. The first difference is that she has to select
from other networks in the area, whilst my laptop doesn't. When my two
desktops are running she can't join, when she selects my network.

When in NZ, her friend's husband, who works for HP, found that if he was
on a network and my daughter hooked into the same one, then he was
thrown off.

All of which seems to point to her Mac and exonerate my network. Beyond
that I haven't a clue. Others might?

Gerry Winskill

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