Would love help adding wired iMac to Airport Extreme.
Hello. I have found answers to many questions on this board, but I finally have to ask one myself.
I know that it is possible to have two macs (iMac and MacBook Pro) connect to the Airport Extreme, one wirelessly and one wired (via one of the LAN outputs). I currently have both connecting wirelessly. Everything works great, but since going wireless the functionality of my trading website has deteriorated. It’s not allowing me to connect to real time quotes and charts. They tell me I need a wired connection. Not sure I believe them because it did work for awhile, but…
So I want to set up my iMac to be wired. I’m reasonably sure of the first step - I need an ethernet cable to connect the iMac to one of the Airport Extreme’s LAN ports. I assume there is more to it than this, but I’m unsure of the next step. I expect that there might be some reconfiguring of the Airport Extreme, but maybe not. For the wired iMac, would I turn AirPort off and connect as I used to (via PPPoE) before going to a wireless connection?
I have the Airport Extreme connected to a Spreadstream 5100 DSL modem through AT&T.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I need an ethernet cable to connect the iMac to one of the Airport Extreme’s LAN ports. I assume there is more to it than this, but I’m unsure of the next step
1) Connect an Ethernet cable from the iMac to one of the LAN <-> ports on the AirPort Extreme
2) Click the fan shaped Airport icon at the top of the iMac's screen and select Turn AirPort Off
3) Connect to the Internet
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ilanaSo...i ran 1 ethernet cable from Igor down the hall to Svetlana and another from Igor further down the hall to Sven. I set up all 3 to 'create a wireless network' and gave them all the same network name and password. i left the 'allow this network to be extended' option unchecked on all 3 and put them all in bridge mode and automatic settings for the radio mode and channel selection.
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/Rant-off
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