Airport Help

Ok while waiting on my Mk2 to ship, my Airport and Lucent Gold card showed up. I have been trying to make these two devices work together. Anyone have any help they can offer. I was hoping it was gonna be out of the box working. I have three machines on a network now. I was trying to hook the Airport to the hub and put the WaveLan card in another PC(fourth machine). But I am not having any luck here. I realize the Airport will be in the car once the MK2 shows up, but was trying to get a fourth computer online also. Wireless of coarse. Anyone who has some experience here would be helpful.

TIA

You need to put the network ID from the airport into the wavelan software so that it signs onto the right network, otherwise nothing will happen at all. I can't remember how to do this, but the docs with the lucent stuff were pretty clear as I remember.

Hugo

Just curious -> What did you pay for both, and where did you buy it ...

And when you got it installed, please tell me, what the max throughput is ...

Thank you:

Nils

I'm curious too as I'm going to be doing the same thing.

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Empeg MK II Owner SN: 118
(Owner of too Many Toys, and a large Debt)

Take a look at the faq that I have on that subject:

http://empeg.comms.net/cgi-bin/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=faq&Number=9922&page=1&view=expanded&sb=5


-mark


...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

I still a little confused. I already have a home network with multiple computers, enet printers, and a
firewall/DHCP/NAT appliance to a cable modem.

If I get the Airport and a pc card to plug into my Windows system, won't I have to route between
the wireless network and my home network in my windows system? won't the windows system
have two networks now? How do I route between the 2 networks? My mp3 files and emplode
may not run on the system with the wireless network card.

Also, on a separate note, with an airport in the car, do you leave it powered on all the time?
How much power might it drain from the battery?
thanks.

-gbeck

Still waiting #145xx.....

In reply to:

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If I get the Airport and a pc card to plug into my Windows system, won't I have to route between
the wireless network and my home network in my windows system? won't the windows system

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Yes you would.. There's two ways that you can do this.. The first way is to get a pci wireless card (or the pcmcia wireless card and a pcmcia adapter), and place this alongside a regular nic in your desktop - then the desktop could act as a bridge between the wired and the wireless network..

The second (and better) way is to hook up the apple airprot inside your house, and purchase a wireless ethernet adapter (Lucent makes one for ~$220, plus the cost of a regular wireless card), use the ethernet adapter (it accepts a pcmcia card, and has a plug to plugin a cat-5 10baseT cord, such as from the empeg..)on empeg, and the airport base in the house..

Expensive, but it'll work... the first method shouldn't cost too much...
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

Got it, looks like it should work.

About placement of the wireless box in the car, the most likely location is the forward luggage compartment
on my Boxster. Anyone tried doing this from inside a trunk? while it is seemingly surrounded by metal,
and might block the signal, there are gaps where a signal should get through. But in practice, I don't
know if this will work or not. Leaving the converter box in the cockpit would be unsightly...

-gbeck

Still waiting #145xx.....

you should be ok, depending on how much distance there is between your car/computer... In my experience, the lucent cards can go through almost anything:)
-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

Here's what I've been wondering for a long time...

If you guys are sticking airports in your cars, these require a 10baseT cable connected to the Empeg, right? But there's no 10baseT on the sled. How are you getting the plug into and out of the Empeg easily when you insert and remove it from the car?

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Tony Fabris