Daisy chain isp to MP then out ethernet 2 to wireless hub possible?
hello
I have a 2 x 2.66 GHz macPro and am running 10.5.7
I have 2 ethernet ports in the back of my unit.
and I would like to run the internet into port one.
then daisy chain port to to my wireless hub. (a D-link dl-524)
I know this is a little unorthodox
but there seems to be an odd transfer issue when I go the other way (from my d link to my mac first)
and I need a nice clean signal and thought this may be the best way to go.
so any advice on setting within my network prefs?
thanks
the way I have it now is I have the ethernet going directly into my MP
then what I want is to use my second ethernet port as an out to my d-link so I can
go wireless with the same connection.
I don't want to do it the other way as for some reason it "dirty's" up my signal when I go into
the D-link then into my MP
does that make sense?
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I've been googling but have been unsuccesful and my friendly automated Verizon CR pop up box has no clue what I'm asking him :-)
Given the configuration in our house, we can only hardwire into the FIOS Internet in one location (with a MI424WR router), and I need a hard connection at a 2nd location to activate my slingbox.
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NOTE: If you ever need to reset that router, it goes back to the default settings, which makes it a DHCP server again. (There is a way to 'save' your current configuration to the computer the Router is attached to, so that you can 'restore' the current settings in the future without needing to go through all the steps here.)
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Thanks1. Does R2 need a reboot after EVERY change or is there some guideline to when "Save & Apply" is adequate without a reboot?
Mine needs a reboot every time
2. If I disconnect R2 and make a change e.g. NAT enable/disable or change routing and then reconnect to R1, does R1 accept the new settings immediately or does it remember the old settings (in other words: Does R1 need a reboot when changes are only made to R2)?
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3. Is R2 PPPoE or IPoE (or IoW)?
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Any help would be great. We also depending on district, may need to find a router
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It is used for moving 512mb to 2 GB files from one computer to another
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That's not the way it works - or, at least, if you can get it to work it's massively over-complicated for what you're trying to do. In order for the third Mac to get to the outside world the first and second Macs will have to be running connection sharing which inherently means running NAT.
This will have the effect of connections from Mac 3 being NATted by Mac2, and then NATted again by Mac 1, oh, and from your IP addresses it looks like Mac 1's connections are then NATted by the school network.
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They did have me reset the PRAM which did. They also told me I might need to install Yosemite 'several times before is sticks' - whatever that means. lol.
Anyway I zapped the PRAM. So far no mysterious restarts with the drive being unrecognized.
One thing I didn't mention though...
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I have last year's MacBook Air -- probably the best Mac I've ever had and I've had a few. I looked at using multiple displays last year, but the reviews for the major 3rd-party solutions really demonstrate how little is possible.
I see Apple says you can double up on displays for the MacBook Pro (I have a pre-Thunderbolt one unfortunately), what about the new (July 2011) MacBook Airs?
Anyone tried? Anyone know?
(I have a 30" Dell display, but it is, and always has been, very flakey when it comes to connecting to a Mac laptop).You can thank Intel for that.
The sandy bridge chips all have integrated graphics, and before they were released -- they took nvidia to court claiming they didn't have a "license" to make GPU chipsets for the sandy bridge line. Intel won, and consumers lost.
The solution most manufacturers are using for notebooks is graphics switching (nvidia optimus like technology) -- which basically uses a discreet GPU along side the intel integrated GPU, and switches between the two instantaenously based on the workload and \ or battery life -- this is how the macbook pro's with the ATI gpus work.
Since there isn't enough space physically inside a macbook air for a discreet GPU, and since no company in the world is allowed to make a shared GPU for intel's sandy bridge chipsets -- the only solution is to use the integrated graphics that is in the processors -- Intel HD 3000. Intel basically has the monopoly here...there is no legal solution in the world another company can provide thanks to our wonderful court system
Wanna know the really sad part about the Intel HD 3000 GPU? The Nvidia 320M (the GPU used in the previous model 2010 macbook air -- chip was released to the market in April of last year) actually out performs it in some benchmarks -- that's right, a 1+ year old shared gpu from nvidia outperforms Intel's 2011 integrated graphics.
Intel ***** at graphics, period.
The only other solution I can think of is for you to get the "Echo Express" product from Sonnet:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/index.html
It's basically an external bay that will allow you to put a PCIe GPU inside it, and it would then connect via thunderbolt to the macbook air.
You would then use the minidisplayport connectors on the PCIe GPU to connect to the apple displays -- I believe any modern ATI or Nvidia GPU can support up to 3 or 4 external displays.
Unfortunately, sonnet's bay is not released yet, and you'd also have to make sure the PCIe GPU you get supports both thunderbolt AND os x....so yeah, kind of slim pickens right now
EDIT:
So apparently the macbook pros can daisy chain two thunderbolt displays -- Apple has a picture of it on their site:
http://storeimages.apple.com/1867/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/MC914_AV 7?wid=1200&hei=1200&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0, 0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp
I just bought a new mac air too...I was gonna get a mbpro but they are just too expensive -- the one I configured was at around 3000$
Wanna know what's lame about using the thunderbolt display with the mac air? So the new mac air has the magsafe connector on one side and the thunderbolt connector on the other -- they're not on the same side like the macbook pro is (see picture) -- so basically the cable is going to have to slack around the back of the macbook air -- who designed that? Must have been smoking some good meth ;p
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Is it possible to query Access 95 in SQL to return the system (current) time and date? Kinda like a sysDate call would do in Oracle...?
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Hi All, How can I test a form created in PE51 as the test link there is inactive also is there any help available on working with HR forms apart from the sap help. Thanx in advance, Amit
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Main content text does not scale down on iPhone
Hello my Dreamweaver friends, I'm working on a site for a friend -- a simple fixed width layout (header, footer, sidebar and main content). It looks good on Safari and Firefox. But on the iPhone and iTouch the text in the mainContent area does not sc
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I have two current newspaper subscriptions, one of which I cannot open although it is showing in the library. This has only happened since I upgraded to i07 Could this be significant.
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Any one can help me in this question i am stuck
import java.util.Scanner; public class JPetWorld public static void main (String[] args){ Pet p = new Pet( "Meow meow", 'F' ); Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in); System.out.print("Press enter to proceed") ; sc.nextLine() ; System.out.println("Name