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Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
 Posted - 21 May 2003 : 01:20:15
Hi,How would you achieve a wireless link to the telephone socket with one of the brand new eMacs. I know about Airport Extreme, but it is to expensive for my blood. |
Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 03:59:43
Is it jus the emac you want wireless? or is it another machine? If it is the first of the two, than you need a basestation with a modem at the tele jack. If it is the latter of the two, as long as the emac has a wirless card, you can set it to be a "base station" of sorts. ~The Penguin **| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line |**
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Gothikon
Full Member
Australia
537 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 05:07:35
I can't remember if the eMac has airport extreme or regular airport. The best way to save money in on the base station, linksys and Dlink makesome good stuff, some with more some with fewer features than Apples own.On the computer end you also have a few options a USB adaptor (about the same price as apple own cards and probably pretty crappy) or ethernet to wireless bridges, no idea how much they cost but you could use them on anything. Airport extreme is just apples name for 802.11g networking, regular airport is 802.11b (this is off the top of my head so the numbers might be wrong) they are all interchangable but obviously with a mixture of protocols you can only go as fast as the slowest link (either is plenty for internet access though). Personally I think it's a complete waste of money if you are only doing it to get rid of one cable though. I've a few computers in regular use and I'm seriously considering it but it's still hard to justify the expense just to get rid of a few cables. If you plan on getting a laptop that is when it will come in to it's own however. Personally I'd buy regular apple airport cards (whichever is appropriate for your machine) and a 3rd party wireless router/basestation --------
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 05:18:19
Or you could do what I do with my iMac: Go to Silly Sollys, get a loooooooooooooooooooooong telephone extension cable, and then run it from the phone line to the eMac. A 10 metre jobbie did the trick for me and cost about $6.  -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
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Clinton
Full Member
USA
700 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 10:00:48
if you wanted to jump through hoops when it comes to internet access, there is still a company that makes acoustic couplers for fellytones. use a cordless phone for that, and hack it so the on/off button is outside the coupler's kiss. You may get lower speed, but it makes for cheap wireless connection on a budget.CCC Commander
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Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2003 : 16:27:11
I know about the good old extension cable, thats what I have been using for the link between the telephone line and the PB180c, a 15m cord just makes it. The problem is that is hardley a permenant solution, so unless I get another phone line hacked into my room, which would probably cost me an arm and a leg, my only choice is to go wireless. eMacs defionately use the 'g' wireless specification so if anyone knows of the cheapest, crapyest, basestation that has an ibuilt modem and compatable with airport, let me know...
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