On 1 Jul 2005, at 13:05, Brian Mahoney wrote:
Amber wrote:
On 1-Jul-05, at 7:43 AM, Brian Mahoney wrote:
Here's a snippet from a review of the Airport Express with
Itunes, " Each installation of Itunes can play to only one
location at a time. For instance, if you're streaming songs to
your living room from your office, you can't listen to songs
using Itunes in your office." Personally, for now I'm sticking
with my lowly but reliable Dlink B wireless router since there
are a whole raft of new items coming out in the near future. G
is good for streaming around the house but if you just use the
'net then B is already faster than any broadband connection.
Hello Brian,
Happy Canada Day :-)
I actually saw the DLink routers in London Drugs last night. How
easy are those to set up ?
I ask, not because I am that technologically challenged, but
because I just don't need the hassle of messing around for hours
trying to get it set up and sorted out.
I mainly want a router so that I can access the net away from my
desk - music streaming is not that important, nor is printing
remotely. I just don't want to be tied to my cable modem
umbilical cord when using the net. Security is important to me
to some degree as well - hoping the security settings are clear.
Are the instructions that come with the DLink routers pretty
straight forward ?
Thanks,
Amber
Yeah, pretty easy to set up but the SMC I had was easier but it
wasn't wireless. I got the Dlink on a deal and it does ok for now.
They all have wizards and the rest of it is kind of common sense
mixed with trial and error. Coverage gets me outside in the
backyard so it's fine. As for security, the password and encryption
is easy to set up, although the guide isn't much help. You can
always turn off file sharing, or don't have a shared folder,
whichever works on a Mac but encryption works well. I use it on my
3400c as well as a PC so if you need any help, let me know.
BM
The first wireless router I bought did not pass AppleTalk packets (at
the time, I was printing to a localtalk printer hooked up to an older
machine running 9.1) so I took it back to the store and bought an
Asanté wireless router instead. Has worked very well for me, although
the web interface doesn' t work as well with Safari as it does with
other web browsers such as Firefox - I believe that this is because
Safari uses an older version of JavaScript).
In addition to encryption, I have the router set to refuse wireless
connections from any hardware (MAC) address other than my PB and my
spouse's PB. I believe most wireless routers offer this type of
hardware access control.
Henry
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