[candyman]

Hello,

I've a Bondi iMac (tray-loading with no AirPort slot) connected to the Net by an Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem.

Now the built-in Ethernet port is free and I'd like to know if I can connect an AirPort Base Station to it and share the ADSL band with my brother's Sony VAIO laptop using a wireless PCMCIA card AirPort compatible.

I use Mac OS 9.2 (Win XP on the laptop)

Thanks in advance,

candyman

[Uday's Carcass]

what you should do is tell your dsl provider to shove that usb modem up their you-know-where and give you an ethernet modem. then buy yourself a cheap router and you're home free for connection sharing and home networking.

as for your current situation--I don't know. It's been years since I've used OS 9.x for anything that I honestly can't remember if it has a sharing-through-ethernet feature.

[ghporter]

I'd be a little more polite than Uday, but that's the direction I'd follow. You could fib a little and tell them that your USB ports are full or broken, or the modem causes a conflict, etc. USB modems are almost all slower than 10BaseT ethernet, too, so you'll get faster throughput with an ethernet modem, too.