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  • ace028
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2007
    • 952
    #1

    School me on routers

    I have a iMac and I am trying to share its WiFi with my dell laptop and it only works if I don't have a password for the network. Should I buy a wireless router instead. I would like to connect my dell laptop, printer, dvd player for netflix and my Wii. Which router should I buy?
    Twin power =
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    • Diegoboy
      Administrator
      • Mar 2007
      • 7244
      #2
      What router do you have now?
      "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bruce Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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        • ace028
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2007
          • 952
          #3
          I don't. My iMac has built in wifi.
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            • ace028
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 952
              #4
              I was using bluetooth paring for my laptop but it wont work now for some reason. I have it enabled on my mac, but it wont connect to the internet on my laptop, but it did work fine, just a little bit slow.
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                • Diegoboy
                  Administrator
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 7244
                  #5
                  I'll admit that I don't know squat about mac, but your wifi is or was connecting to someones router to have internet. Someone has to be broadcasting their paid internet. My guess is that whoever's internet (possibly a neighbor) you were jumping on, found out and secured their network with a password.
                  "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bruce Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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                    • ace028
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 952
                      #6
                      It is my network I was using. It works when I pair it via bluetooth well it did work.

                      Which router should I get to connect everything in the house? Printer, laptop, Wii, dvd player? Does it matter which router?
                      Twin power =

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                        • Diegoboy
                          Administrator
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 7244
                          #7
                          Oh, Sorry. I, myself, am a big fan of linksys (by Cisco). If you go with a linksys, then downlosd their app for easy mac setup. The app is called LELA (Linksys Easy Link Advisor)
                          "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bruce Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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                            • pescador
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2009
                              • 499
                              #8
                              I'm running a Linksys router and 16 port switch with 2 Macbooks, a couple Dells, network printer, 2 network drives all with no problem. Setup the security on the router and enter it on each device.
                              Only thing I'm not sure of is the DVD but if you hard wire it no problem.
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                                • ace028
                                  Senior Member
                                  • Aug 2007
                                  • 952
                                  #9
                                  Well, I ended up with a 2TB apple time machine, I know it was rediculusly expensive, but it has the 2TB HDD and a airport extreme, so I can wirelessly back up my stuff, and share the hdd with other computers. The inital backup takes forever but after that it just does the stuff that changed. I am going to partition it so I can put all my junk on it that I don't want as part of the back up. So far I just plugged it in, and with ease I got my iMac, dell laptop, Wii, cell phone all setup on the wireless network, now just got to add my printer. I found out my dvd player don't do netflix so i'm not going to bother hooking that up, the wii is suppose to get netflix soon tho.
                                  Twin power =

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