Airport Exteme and PC's

[-i2i-]

Hey, I'm new to this forum and macs but I bought a G4 12" iBook the other day and am loving it. I bought an airport extreme with it, and wanted to know if and how I can hook it up to a PC to share a DSL connection, files and a Printer. I'm not sure if any or even all of these are possible, but I'm sure I must be able to hook it up to share an internet connection. Do I need a rotuer or just a acces point? Whats the difference? Do you recommend one?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks

 

[stoid]

I would suggest a router. Or if you don't need internet on the PC but when you aren't using the iBook, you can just have the iBook share its wireless connection with the PC via ethernet.

 

[-i2i-]

Isn't ethernet wired though? I should have also said that my PC has the printer and internet connection on it, thanks,

 

[-i2i-]

Anyone? Please

 

[RGunner]

Your best bet is a wireless router....

just as the other chap commented.

http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/

You will be frustrated using the iBook to 'share' a connection.

 

[Westside guy]

We have our PC (Windows XP) plugged into the wired port on our Airport Extreme base station. Works just fine - Apple even has an Airport Admin utility available that runs on Windows.

Our two Mac laptops have no problem using it of course.

I haven't had much of a problem with Windows wireless clients either, although they weren't mine so I "dumbed down" the AE to use WEP rather than try to get their computers set up to do WPA - but I'm sure it would work fine.