Airport with a mac & PC on same network

I have a mac G4 tower and my brother has yet to be converted from the dark side of pc user mermadon-dom. Can I hook his PC to my airport? I don't know what other specks would be needed to help answer his pc is a no name running XP.
g4, 30 gig ipod, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Sure your bother can connect to your wireless network but depending on the age of his PC or wireless card or the encryption type his wireless card supports, you may need to change the encryption for your wireless network.
I have a friend with a PC laptop running Windows XP who connects to my wireless network via an Airport Express but his wireless card does not support connecting to a WPA2 encrypted wireless network. I had to downgrade the encryption to WEP so he could connect.
If your wireless network is not encrypted (which it should be), definitely not a problem.

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Here's the set up.
I have a cable router into the house and then an Airport Extreme connected to it. Everything connects wirelessly to the Airport Extreme apart from one computer in the same room as it, which I wired into the AE with a cable (it's a gaming PC and has no wireless).
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There is nothing stopping you connecting to the wireless computers if you have sharing turned on..
How can I get that wired machine to use the same network as all the other wireless devices? When I plug the cable into it, the gaming PC only picks up the network being created by the cable box which I don't use.
I don't quite follow this..
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D-Link DCM-202 simple cable modem (DOCSIS 2.0 compliant)
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5th generation AirPort Extreme Base Station - Main (Bought last week)
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The question is on the title:
is there a problem to use 2 Macs HAVING THE SAME NAME (I.E. my name) with a single phone ?
I hope a clearly asked my question (my frenchy english is sometimes clumsy).
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Wi-Fi router that has USB port to share external hard disk wirelessly to all devices (Mac, Samsung Smart TV, PC, Ipad, Iphone) along with inbuilt torrent download capability that also has a 3.5mm jack to do airplay.
Greedy? Yes I know but why can't we have it all I ask.
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