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Sharing Dial-Up
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Location: MSP, MN, USA
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So I got my Airport Base Station and Airport Card today (free through work!  ) and I'm trying to get my iMac without Airport card to share my dial-up connection via the Base Station. I can see my iMac from the iBook with Airport, so I know the iMac is connected correctly (physically), but when I try to connect to the Internet to check mail from the iMac, I get an error from Entourage saying "check your TCP/IP connections". What I'm wanting it to do is ask the Base Station to create a PPP connection and use that over Ethernet to check mail/surf, etc.
I set up TCP/IP on the iMac to use Ethernet as its connection. I couldn't get DHCP to work, so I manually set the IP/router/subnet info. The Airport manual said to select "Airport" as the "Connect via" but there's no Airport card in the iMac. I tried running the Airport installer on the iMac, just to see if that option would appear, but it didn't.
Everything works like it's supposed to from the iBook. When I ask for a PPP connection and one isn't already up, the Base Station creates one and I'm good to go.
The documentation seems kind of skimpy in this area. It didn't mention if I needed to connect the Base Station to the hub with a crossover or regular cable (regular works) or if the port I connect the Base Station to should be set to Normal or Uplink (I think mine is set to Uplink).
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Matthew
P.S. I installed the most recent Security Update today, via PPP over Airport, and of course I had to reboot. After I started back up and logged in, *the PPP connection was still open, and I could start surfing right away*! SWEET! 
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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does your area have broadband (cable or dsl)? you'd be tons happier with that...
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Location: MSP, MN, USA
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Originally posted by fulmer:
does your area have broadband (cable or dsl)? you'd be tons happier with that...
Yes, both, but until the price drops, I can't justify it. I'm pretty happy with my $8.95/mo dialup, and it lets me do most things I need to, except for the big downloads, which I take care of at work.
It would just be nice to have all the computers share a dialup connection for those times when I'm dialed up and need to download a file on one of the other boxes for whatever reason...
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I have my iMac hooked up to the base station without an airport card. If I use the powerbook to tell the base station to connect to dial up using its own modem I can then use its connection on the iMac. I have yet to figure out a way to get the iMac to tell the base station to dial up, though.
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