What exactly do I need to do to set up wireless?

Please forgive me if I'm in the wrong section. I am totally new to all of this. I have comcast as an internet provider. I want to be able to use wireless internet on my MacBook Pro. What all do I need? I want to know from real people b/c it seemed like in stores, people are just trying to sell me things. My house is close to 3000 square feet for what it is worth. I'm overwhelmed and not sure where to begin. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Are the 2 PCs connecting via wireless or Ethernet?
Did Comcast provide a router or just a modem?
If Comcast provided a router and your PCs are connecting via Ethernet, you can still use either the AirPort Express (AX) or AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS). The 2 PCs will connect via Ethernet to the router as they do now. Or the 2 PCs can connect wirelessly to the AX or AEBS. (Assuming that the 2 PCs have wireless ability).
If Comcast only provided a modem and the PCs are to connect wirelessly, you can still use either the AX or AEBS.
If Comcast only provided a modem and the PCs are to connect via Ethernet, the AX alone won't work for you. In that case you would either need the AEBS or another wireless router with multiple Ethernet ports.

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OK, so I finaly upgraded my computer into the mild 21st century, and to my disapointment, I cannot seem to run anything as smoothly as I had thought.
These are the specs for my computer...
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Basicly, I cant seem to run even basic text in after effects faster than 19 FPS.
I've tried to change the resolution to half, and even a fourth, and that didnt work at all, infact it made it run about 1 frame worse.
I tried changing the Open gl texture memory, raising and lowering, but to no avail, Ive changed the ram usage in after effects to use 2 gigs per core, then one gig, then turned off multiframe rendering alltogether, and nothing.
I feel like ive tried everything in my power.
Now the Imacs at my school, they run the program smooth as hell... and they arent that much better, spec wise than my computer.
Even my friends Imac can run it smooth, and he only has an I5 cpu at 2.4ghz, which is fine and my understanding of cpus is that those are better proccessors, but its not that much better, and even still, why would that be neccesary just to run text scrolling accross the screen?
Even more so, why would changing the resolution not have any effect?
What exactly do I need to run after effects smoothly for a basic text scroll at say, 720P?
I need to know what to upgrade, soon I plan to get cs6 and I would like to have a computer that can edit basic HD properly.
What I realy dont get is that I know people with laptops that are running AE smoothly and these are much worse than the specs on my machine, some even with only 4 gigs of ram...
Is there something wrong, do I have some sort of frame limiter thats capping at 19 fps? is there some sort of memory leak?
Any help would be much apreciated.
Now the only thing I can think of thats holding me back is the crappy hard drives, every thing else seems like it should at least run text on after effects at 30 fps.

thanks, that at least is enough to get me started, lol I have a deadline tomorrow and have been burning a lot of time on just trying to get this to run smooth.
BTW, I am running the project off of the portable, I switched from the old, but faster harddrive that was sata2 to the portable given I thought that might increase the speed, which it didnt.
what I might do is crack the case and just plug it straight into the computer, though I am hesitant to do so as if I were going to do that, I might as well just purchase a usb 3.0 one and do that so i can get sata 3 out of it, since those cases dont exactly just snap back together.
When I say basic text, I mean layered text, just word after word in order. I honestly dont have any plugins that I know of, (if I had the money for them I would have spent it on a better computer probably) so what I have is what came with the master collection.
And when I say 19 FPS I mean spacebar...
NOW I KNOW, that Im not garunteed 30 fps when running the preview, but when I use the mac, it previews fine... and i just looked up my CPU in comparison to the I5 in the IMAC that I was refering to, and mine is actualy faster according to some benchmarks, granted its not faster than the vast majority of I5s and I7s, but the particular ones in the computers I was refering to, mine is actualy faster over all, so I figure its not a CPU thing (unless its a -our software only works right on INTEL- thing).
Now as far as the 3d camera, yes I am using it, but even when I run the text without a camera function (ie the thing that you have in your comp) or any sort of 3d layering it runs just as slow.
The Audio might be a problem, I used to have a soundcard, but that died about a year ago so I have been using onboard sound (realtek HD something) which truly sucks in comparison to a proper sound card, but I cant imagine the IMACs have anything better, I mean the sound from the Imac kinda sucks alltogether, dosent even have any sort of virtual surround... But a driver issue it could be, realtek is kind of ghetto in that regard.
I will try some of the tips above (the open gl and the preview output and such), and thank you very much.
*EDIT*
OK, so with the preview output, I have computer monitor only? is that what you ment?
*EDIT*
OK, so I did the OpenGL thing, removed it, and for a brief few secconds, it started to run at a mix of 25 to 30 fps, then, when I went to play it again, it was back at 19.

I am confused about Icloud. I have a 5 year old Macbook, a 2 year old macbook and a 5 year old mac mini. What exactly do I need to do to get all this connected via Icloud. I also have an Iphone 3G. Help please!

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To use the OTHER feautes of iCloud, your computers will have to be running OS X Lion (10.7). Your iPhone 3G will never be able to use iCloud as it cannot run iOS 5 (you need a min. of an iPhone 3GS to run iOS 5).
The requirements for OS X Lion are here - http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html You need a min. of a Core 2 duo processor so you mini is not capable of running Lion.
So, in your case, the single reasons for iCloud would be if you have a mobileme account, then use the online www.icloud.com to migrate your account so you do not lose your @me.com email address. You can use iCloud email (without using any other iCloud features) by setting it up as IMAP mail with these settings - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
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Having said that, you can try this page:
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I would like to wire up some more machines to a switch in another room, and hook up this network to my main network wirelessly. That is, this new group of machines needs a gadget that can talk wirelessly to the BEFW11S4 in order to extend my home LAN, and allow any machine on one wired segment to access any machine on the other wired segment.
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Second, implementation: What gizmo will do what I need, and how do I configure the BEFW11S4 to work with it?
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(Edited subject to keep threads from stretching. Thanks!)
Message Edited by JOHNDOE_06 on 10-15-2008 07:43 AM

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You can also get a versatile wireless access point which can be configured as wireless bridge like the Linksys WAPs.
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You only really need the MAC address if you want to set up a wireless distribution system (WDS). This is when you want not only a simple wireless bridge but a roaming wireless network and the bridge at the same time. A WDS access point will connect wireless to the main access point. The WDS access point will also accept incoming client connections and repeat those signals to the main access point. As you can have multiple WDS access points you have to set up the topology of your wireless network by defining the access points to which they should actually connect to. But for your purposes you won't need that.
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Olexiy,
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I know this sounds pretty trivial but I find it pretty confusing to compose the correct bundle on the iStore (Netherlands) which led me to put forward this question in this forum.
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Thanks for your reply.
I definitely need a case based on the feedback I got. Seems the iPods case is easy to be scratched. (BTW: Any recommendations?)
Furthermore I have the following list:
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> Hi All,
> I have the ServiceDesk Appliance installed and trying to set it up.
>
> I am now at Setup > Email > Server. Here in the "Receiving" section,
> what exactly do I need the "UserName"/"Password" for?
>
> Can I use and existing username? or do I need a have a separate
> Username dedicated for the ServiceDesk?
>
> Regards,
> Yaser.
Paul

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