DSL Routing to PC

You should be able to use your mac to share the signal I have never heard of someone doing to with a PC at the other end but it should work. So you would need a airport extreme card for the mac and a wireless card for the PC. The other option is to buy a wireless router so you don't need the mac on to use the PC.

 

If you want the cheapest way to do this would be to have a wireless router by the mac have the mac cabled into the router and have a wireless card for the PC. I know many people here would have suggestions of good cheap wireless routers. This option would for sure work. And would be the cheapest i would think.

 

That is exactly the configuration that I have. I have SBC DSL come into a Linksys WRT54G wireless router which is hardwired to my Mac Mini. I have a pc with a Dlink wireless card and also an iMac with built-in wireless. Works like a champ, and any computer can access the internet at any time, and the router has a hardware firewall which helps keep down on internet attacks to the pc, since nobody on the outside can see it. I am sure there are cheaper routers out there that can do the same job; check Dlink for cheap 54g routers. From what I have heard stay away from Fry's brand (AirLink+).

 

You just mentioned one of my pet peeves......it does not have a firewall but NAT. Its not a true firewall but it does the job.

This would be the route i would go.