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making my ethernet wireless

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Assidua

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Mar 13, 2007
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Hi
sorry, my first post. I'm a student in halls of residence and I want to make my ethernet connection wireless, so that I can have both my pc and mac connecting at the same time. Do you think I have to buy a wireless router or will a wireless access point do the trick?
 
A wireless router would do it. There's also the possibility, if your mac has an airport card, that you can plug the ethernet cable into your mac and broadcast the connection from there.

Before you do either of these things however, you might want to check about your school's policy on wireless networks. Most college dorms don't allow personal wireless networks and i've seen people get into alot of trouble for breaking those rules.
 
I think the legality of making a network within a network is Ok where I'm at; at least, most people seem to be doing it with no bother.

I have an airport card but I want to use my macbook pro around my place, it's the PC I could leave be, so I think I need a wireless router. Any ideas of what to get? I checked out ebay but I'm not sure they can make my ethernet wireless- despite advertising ethernet connections, those are only for connecting computers to your router, and not ethernet connection to the router, if you know what I mean? Are most brands OK with Macs?
 
Assidua said:
I think the legality of making a network within a network is Ok where I'm at; at least, most people seem to be doing it with no bother.
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That hardly implies legality but if you're sure :) .

As far as routers, make sure it's a "wireless" router. There are many routers out there that just split one ethernet connection into many. I've never heard of a router that didn't work with a mac. Anything from linksys or belkin I know by experience will work.
 
Assidua said:
I checked out ebay but I'm not sure they can make my ethernet wireless- despite advertising ethernet connections, those are only for connecting computers to your router, and not ethernet connection to the router, if you know what I mean?
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:confused: Uh, no, I don't know what you mean.

Buy a wireless router. Pretty much any wireless router will do -- a popular and stable model is the Linksys WRT54G. You can get it for about $50 pretty much any place that sells networking equipment. It will have a WAN ethernet port for your internet connection, plus four ethernet ports for your computers that you want to plug in, plus of course the wireless capability.
 
Erendiox said:
That hardly implies legality but if you're sure :) .

As far as routers, make sure it's a "wireless" router. There are many routers out there that just split one ethernet connection into many. I've never heard of a router that didn't work with a mac. Anything from linksys or belkin I know by experience will work.
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Netgear will definitly work with Pc's and Mac's

FJ
 
Ok, ordered a WGR614UK netgear wireless router from amazon, refurbished. waste not want not...
 
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