on 3/20/01 5:25 PM, Pierre Zippi at biostrat@... wrote:

> Does Airport do well with Hubs/Routers?
> Actually, 150 ft of Cat5 cost nearly half the price of the Airport
> transceiver (not the hub).

I am using several Airports in the schools.  I have plugged them into most
everything (hubs and switches) and once you get them configured, all goes
pretty well.  We are using Farallon PC cards in some G3 Powerbooks, and they
also do pretty well, with one exception...switching from an AIrport at one
school to an Airport at another, even using the location manager to switch
can be a hastle and sometimes takes a reboot or two.

iBooks connect to Airports upon wake up.  No problems there, so I assume
Apple Cards in iMacs will do the same.  You cannot configure the Airport
with the second party PC Card.  Also, I assume in your home you won't be
switching Airports.

The Airport makes IP simple as they can serve IPs for each machine creating
an internal network while the airport is a single ip device on the network.

One other note of interest...you must turn on Appletalk and for the life of
me I cannot remember what the term they use...but it isn't Apple-anything.
It is a check box and the first airports came out of the box ready to go and
the newer ones  (Late fall) need it turned on or you get no AppleTalk,
making the chooser useless.

BTW, I know a guy who lets a business associate, who moved and is waiting
for his cablemodem hookup, sit in the drive way and take care of his e-mail
in the evening. 
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Best Wishes,

George
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