brianleahy
Colonel Panic
I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer here:
I have a new Mac G4 867Mhz, and my wife has a Pentium III HP laptop. Both are connected - with hardwire, at the moment - to a Mediaone/AT&T cable modem via an 8 port 10/100BT hub. Both work great.
However: my wife has recently developed health problems that keep her at home. She is now doing her work from home, and so must spend many hours each day at her computer desk at home, exchanging email with her co-workers. It would be a great benefit her if her laptop could access the cable modem from anywhere in the house.
Now; my father has an Airport base that he cannot use - his office is built with metal studs that badly disrupt the signal. He can't use the base unless he's in the same room with it, which totally defeats the purpose.
So my question is: can anyone recommend an EXACT manufacurer/model# of an 802.11 card - and software strategy that would allow my wife's Wintel laptop to access the cable modem wirelessly via the Airport base?
Thanks!!
I have a new Mac G4 867Mhz, and my wife has a Pentium III HP laptop. Both are connected - with hardwire, at the moment - to a Mediaone/AT&T cable modem via an 8 port 10/100BT hub. Both work great.
However: my wife has recently developed health problems that keep her at home. She is now doing her work from home, and so must spend many hours each day at her computer desk at home, exchanging email with her co-workers. It would be a great benefit her if her laptop could access the cable modem from anywhere in the house.
Now; my father has an Airport base that he cannot use - his office is built with metal studs that badly disrupt the signal. He can't use the base unless he's in the same room with it, which totally defeats the purpose.
So my question is: can anyone recommend an EXACT manufacurer/model# of an 802.11 card - and software strategy that would allow my wife's Wintel laptop to access the cable modem wirelessly via the Airport base?
Thanks!!