Airport: 3 macs with software base?

Kinniken

Kinniken

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I know officialy it's not possible, but is there a way to connect two macs to a mac running OS X via airport, preferably simultaneously? Or is it a hardware limitation you can't get around?

TIA,

Kinniken
 
Dear All,

I know that this can be done in Mac OS 9 Classic. IN MacOS 9, you can turn the machine in to a base station, so other machines can connect to you and share you internet connection. The 'host' machine will have to be running MacOS 9 to do this and to tuen it in to a Base Station, it's just a simple click.

Unfortunately, I don't know how this is done in MacOS X as the Airport set up panel is different.

Hope I was some help...
 
Originally posted by Kinniken
I know officialy it's not possible, but is there a way to connect two macs to a mac running OS X via airport, preferably simultaneously? Or is it a hardware limitation you can't get around?

TIA,

Kinniken
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Yeah you can get your mac (try to choose the most powerful one) to pretend to be an AirPort Base Station.

The other Macs will just see a base station with an internet connection. You really need a G4 with ISDN or better to make this viable.

10.2 will have the facility back.
 
I know I can make a mac running OS X into a software base station... I had just heard that it only worked with one client. Good news =)
For the power required, the mac supposed to do this is an iMac G3/450 on cable modem... will that be enough or will performance be awful?
I could try to have an other comp, and iMac G4/700 as the base station, but that would require changing the arrival point of the cable, and that would be costly... I'll see what performance I get.
 
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