[muglo] Re: new Airport base station
- From: "Eric D" <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:16:57 -0500
I skimmed through the manual (not like Apple's manuals are a hard read ;) &
it looks like it IS possible to share your dial-up connection.
Hook your local network up to the ethernet port (with an uplink cable to an
uplink port) and you'll be sharing your dial-up connection! Just make sure
you use DHCP for your TCP/IP connection (as opposed to static IP or BootP).
Eric.
>From: "Eric D" <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [muglo] Re: new Airport base station
>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:00:06 -0500
>
> > >I presume you have an Airport Base station that has two ethernet ports,
> >one
> > >for the WAN or the modem (wide-area-network) and one for the LAN
> > >(local-area-network) or your local wired computer/hub/router.
> >
> > Nope. Ethernet port and modem port.
>
>This means it's one of the Graphite base stations (first model of Airport).
>
> > >For Dial-up:
> > >You still need to have _two_ ethernet ports on the Airport,
> >
> >:-(
>
>You could still get other computers on the network working with dial-up
>internet through a wireless<->ethernet bridge gadget.
>
> > >even if you
> > >don't connect to the web via highspeed modem. Since you already have an
> > >ethernet network I'm also presuming that you already have either have a
> >hub
> > >or a router.
> >
> >for instance G3 --> hub --> Airport
> >
> > >Plug a cable into the uplink port on the router/hub and the
> > >other end into the LAN ethernet port on the Airport.
> >
> >Aaaah.... The Airport needs to run from the hub's uplink port... Hmmmm...
>
>I'm not at all sure how it would work now that I think of it (it's not a
>configuration I've ever encountered).
>
>You may or may not be able to share the dial-up internet over the ethernet
>port built into the Airport. I'm guessing maybe not, maybe so. It doesn't
>make logical sense given the purpose of the Airport's ethernet port (to
>hook
>up to the internet), but who knows, perhaps Apple foresaw this situation
>and
>built-in the functionality into the software (logically you could treat the
>wired port the same as wireless connections and have the DHCP server active
>also on the wired port?
>
> >I may need to change the wiring configuration in the house then, as I
> >have:
> >
> >G3 & Laser Printer --> hub uplink --> second hub --> alanna computer &
> >Evan Computer
> >
> >as a legacy wiring arrangement when the G3 was half-a-house away. It was
> >convenient to leave the second hub in the basement, when the first was on
> >the second floor. (There remains an ethernet wire to the back bedroom :-)
> >from the basement hub.) Now the first hub (now in the first floor) is
> >basically above the second, I think a new wiring arrangement with only
> >one hub and running the Airport from the uplink will do it (?)
>
>Let me know if that works. It'd be interesting to know if the one wired
>port
>on the Airport can also have the DHCP server active (the reason I say it
>might not work is that what you are doing is a rather unusual
>configuration... normally dial-up internet is not a shared resource b/c of
>the bandwidth limitations).
>
>Eric.
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