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I have my Aris modem from Comcast plugged into my late 2009 iMac via Ethernet cord. I'm very happy with the increase in speed which jumped from around 14MB/s on average to 30MB/s. I've setup my iMac to share it's internet connection via AirPort. My sisters iMac, my mother's Acer laptop and my dads HP Mini (running Mac OS X) connects to it just fine. My Playstation 3 on the other hand doesn't. I guess my month old Playstation 3 doesn't support N signal. Is there ANYWAY to send a mixed signal signal using my iMac so I can play MW2 online again! I don't want to have to go back to using my router!
Pics below
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http://imgur.com/LYm2g.png

Maybe I am missing something, but why not just use your AirPort as your wireless router for the PS3 and other wi-fi computers in your environment? That's what it was designed to do. I have an Apple AirPort Extreme router. It is the first one to support the 802.11n protocol and it works fine with my PS3 and my MacBook Pro. It seems to me that you are building needless complexity into your home network and probably slowing down network throughput as a result.

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