Splitting Airport Connection with a PC

HI all, i was wondering if it is possible to share the original Airport connection on my AGP Sawtooth 500 with my ugly beige box sitting next to it...Any help is appreciated...thanks!

Steve,
you are in the right direction. Your partner can install a card on her PC but it is also possible (and sometimes more desirable) to add wireless capability using a USB device (linksys.com has these devices).
Hope this helps.

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Would this be an antenna or card being loose?
Sounds like it.
Is it user friendly fix, or bring it to Apple?
If under AppleCare, bring it to Apple. If not, you can probably find instructions to fix a loose antenna connector yourself.

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Unfortunately, you didn't provide much information about your PC or the current external wireless adapter to be of much help. WPA was first supported with WinXP w/SP1; which OS is your PC running? Likewise, early versions of wireless adapters only supported WEP. What is the make/model of yours? Does your PC support PC cards, PCI cards (internal), and/or USB devices?

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I cannot get access to my (password protected) WLAN modem with my Mac Pro. I have to go via Ethernet through my Powerbook. It only works when I set the modem to require no password for Internet access, once WPA is enabled, the Mac Pro Airport connection fails even though it "sees" the network alright.
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That sounds like progress!
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WHy is the ethernet port getting a self assigned IP Address. I want to share the wifi connection with the ethernet to run a cable to my ps3. Need to update trophies so i can wipe it. Wifi doesnt work on PS3 at this time(reason for wiping)

This is a major debacle with Apple. I contacted support and they informed me that they don't support this function.
After many hours of playing around and reading forums this is quite easy (once you know what to do)!
Setup internet sharing (airpor to ethernet)
Go to Network under system preferences
View the Ethernet icon (should be yellow as it self assigns the IP)
Click on TCP/IP and in the Configure IPv4 menu, select "Using DHCP with manual address"
Set the Ethernets IP address to 192.168.2.1
Set the Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 (255.255.0.0 is default on OSX 10.6)
On the NIC tring to use the shared connection (PS3/XBOX/Network DVD/PC), you should just be able to "Obtain IP and DNS Automatically". If not, enter the following:
IP Address(connecting device): 192.168.2.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.2.1
This has nothing to do with the IP of the airport connection or your router, this is the internal Ethernet port settings on the hardware (as far as I can tell).
My internal Airport IP is 10.0.1.4, with 10.0.1.1 for airport extreme, and the self assigned IP was 169.254.151.92 on my shared Ethernet port on the Mac when it wasn't configured properly.
Let me know if this works!!!

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I know there are quite a few threads about this exact same topic going around right now, but I've followed all the suggestions out there with absolutely no success... So here's my version of this sob story.
I bought my new C2D MacBook last week and thought getting online would be as easy as turning it on and connecting to my existing wireless network, using a D-Link router. I was able to connect immediately with a full AirPort signal, but the performance has been spotty at best. Some web pages load immediately, some load very slowly, some don't load at all. Mail and iChat are never quite sure whether I'm connected or not, and go back and forth between being connected and offline. With other computers on this network I've enjoyed wireless download speeds as fast as 220 kbps, but with certain downloads on this computer I've seen speeds start out at 150 kbps and drop down to a staggering 4 kbps... I might as well go back to dial-up.
Other pertinent information... I've had 3 other Macs hooked up to this wireless network before (2 G4-based laptops and a first generation Intel iMac, all with AirPort Extreme) with absolutely no problems. I've followed all the advice that others have posted about this so far, like updating the firmware on the router, resetting it, resetting my computer, creating a new user, trashing my preferences, all with no effect.
I was reading another thread where they discussed how the brand new MacBooks are shipping with the new 802.11 n cards, which is great for the future... But does that mean my existing wireless network is now obsolete, thanks to my new laptop? Am I out of luck until the new AirPort Base Station starts shipping eventually? Considering the money I just dropped for my new laptop, I'm not exactly keen on spending another $200 just to get my new laptop online. Nowhere in any of my documentation or even in System Profiler is there any mention of this new technology.
I've basically been an Apple customer and advocate my entire life, and I'm very disappointed in my latest purchase. You're supposed to be able to take a Mac out of the box and have it work, which is one of the reasons why I buy from Apple instead of anyone else. Hopefully this will be resolved soon!!

FYI, someone posted a novel suggestion in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3875203
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Is its posible to conect a airport express with a 3g usb dongel? Becouse somtime in some situation you can't get a internet by kabel or adsl 2+ so you need a 3g Network. And I have seen some routers that support this.
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b.    As above, but with the Speedport W700V router in between the modem and Time Capsule.
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b.    As above, but with the Speedport W700V router in between the modem and Time Capsule.
The green light on the modem is illuminated to confirm the VDSL is available.
Could somebody please advise the correct settings in the Airport Utility to make either configuration above work?
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Paul
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a.    The Speedport 300 HS modem connected directly to the Time Capsule.
This is harder as it depends on the authentication system used by your VDSL..
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I just installed a wifi card on my freebox.
The connection works perfectly with a recent IbookG4.
However, it does not with my (quite old) PowerBookG4.
It seems unable to recognize the password.
I do not know if I have some updates to do (I have OSX.10.4).
I have made all that I can imagine.
I do not knwo if I have to use Airport express er something like that. Probably my airport card is of an old type
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Zweistein, Welcome to the discussion area!
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Ensure that your wireless base station is working in an 802.11b compatible mode (either "802.11b only" or "802.11b/g" mode).
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I have the iMac listed below, and a new MacBook Pro. I was having trouble with our home network through our modem and router (Speedstream and Dlink respectively) so I switched over to a 2wire modem/router HomePortal. I did the switch over with the Pro, everything worked great, both hardwired and wireless. I then went to put in the WEP password on the iMac and it says that there was an error in joining the specified network. After trying a few things that I knew, I decided to bypass the wireless and use the longest ethernet cord I had...however, even when plugged into the 2wire, my iMac will not act like it is connected. Network Diagnostics says that I am not connected to either the internet or any modem. When I try to get into the 2wire with its address, I come up with nothing.
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The ethernet I would not know of, but I have had this problem before too with the wireless. Infact, 1 of my computers had this problem and one of them worked perfectly fine too. I also have a 2-wire gateway. I use a WPA pass-code.
It would tell me connection timeout and all sorts of other stuff. I restarted the 2-wire device and that worked for me. Then I decided to use time capsule as a second wireless network so if 2 wire didn't work for my computer, I would be able to switch to the time capsule (which would be using double-nat, which is easy to set up), if the network didn't work. If you had time capsule and wanted only 1 wireless network, then go to http://home click on wireless networks and on the right side of the screen should be a wireless disable button.
*This shouldn't be a problem with the iMac* unless you cant connect to any network like your neighbors of something.

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