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Old October 22nd, 2003, 08:08 PM
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Question One G4 (2x400MHz), One G5 (1x1.8GHz), a PC, a fax and a printer - AirPort....?

Based on all the research I have done so far its just a matter of dumping AirPort cards into the Macs for the Base station to have a place to send the signal to, and then let the OS's fill in the blanks...?

I don't think the PC is new enough to support an AirPort card (I don't know enough about PCs).

How do the computers know the printer and fax machines are there? Are those items connected to the ADSL or Router?

... Just running this by the more knowledgeable people before I end up looking like an idiot in the office tomorrow.

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Old October 22nd, 2003, 09:50 PM
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The Airport should act as a router does - it'll do the PPPoE authentication throught the DSL modem, it'll be a DHCP client to get your one external IP number, and it'll be the DHCP server for your internal net, passing out local IP numbers to the three computers. fax and printer connection depend on the devices. Wait - do you have a second router in the office? If so, you'll want the Airport to be a base station only and turn off the DHCP functions.
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