[Ham-Mac] Reintroduction and New Addresses

[Wolfgang Mahlke]

hello Brian,

the problem ist, the satellite connection to your wireless router.

if you solved this, you can connect your eMac with ethernet or wlan  
to the router.
(if the eMac has no wlan, there are some usb wlan sticks on the market)

any of your other computer should can connect also via the same  
router to the net.

the sharing internet in ur mac is used, if you connect ur mac  
directly to the internet, and want the other computers to connect to  
the net via ur mac, and not the router.

the sharing will allow to setup ur mac as server, so you can easily  
setup a file, html, ftp .... server

the firewall in ur mac, will work in the sameway, regardless of the  
kind of internet connection.

73 de wolf, df1gw, ke5asl

Am 21.02.2007 um 19:51 schrieb Brian K.Short:

> Hello,
>
> I recently moved and finalized my divorce, so please
> excuse my lack of knowledge of almost anything in
> the past year or so.
>
> My new internet provider is Wildblue, a satellite delivered
> service which is necessary because of my location in a
> rural desert area SSW of Phoenix about 40 miles.
>
> I am using an eMac G4 1.25GHZ running OSX 10.3.9.
>
> While I have some antennas at this location, I am still
> reconnecting gear, unpacking boxes, and waiting for
> my head to stop spinning.
>
> While not entirely "Mac-related" I wonder if anyone might
> have ideas about simple, effective ways to share the satellite
> internet connection?  I have used a MIMO wireless router
> on 3 different cable internet networks with no configuration.
> It appears to be not as simple to use it with my satellite connection,
> but it is likely an oversight on my part.  I also use an XP laptop
> and have an old PC running Win2000Pro to use occasionally.
>
> There is a provision in OS X for sharing internet and I wonder
> if anyone has experiences with this?  I don't.  Would this
> favorably compare with a MIMO wireless router?
>
> What about the "firewall" aspects of using a router vs OS X?
>
> The problem may arise because of the inherent propagation
> delay in the satellite connection.
>
> Thanks for your tolerance.
> --
> Brian --> http://users.wildblue.net/k7on/
> "Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light."
>
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