[MichaelJPR]

I have an iMac G4, 800 mhz and my wife has a dell laptop, complete with wireless network card. We want to set up a router so that the iMac can be "hard wired" to the DSL modem and the Dell can operate wirelessly. I bought a DLink 614+ router that worked great for awhile, but I think that it stopped working when I upgraded to 10.3.

I'm connected using DHCP. When I run everything through the router, the laptop gets a wireless connection, but the iMac gets nothing. Do I:

-have to buy another router? If so, what do I buy?
-have to change the settings on my iMac or the router? If so, how?

Earthlink is no help. They want me to buy into their networking stuff. $9.95/month in addition to the DSL charges that I'm already paying.

HELP! My wife starts her doctoral program soon and we really need this to work.

Thanks in advance....

[f1000]

1. Connect the iMac to the router. Make sure that your computers’ operating systems are up to date and that your router has the latest firmware.


Router:

2. Reset your router to its defaults.
3. DO NOT attempt to “Clone MAC Address”.
4. Enable static DHCP and assign your iMac the following static IP address: 192.168.0.100.
5. Under DHCP Server, change the “Starting IP Address” to 192.168.1.101.
6. Leave all other router settings AS IS for now.


iMac:

7. Open System Preferences: Network: TCP/IP
8. While “Configure IPv4” is set to DHCP, record the DNS Servers addresses.
9. Now make the following adjustments:

Configure IPv4: Manually
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers: (Enter the addresses you recorded in step 8)


At this point, your iMac should have a static address to the Internet. Try connecting the laptop wirelessly using DHCP. If everything works, feel free to adjust encryption settings, etc.



EDIT: I should've told you to hook up your iMac to the router before telling you to make changes to the latter. Doh!

[MichaelJPR]

You did it! Thank you so much.