Author Topic: Mac and PC on a wireless router?? (Read 178 times)

Sparks · « **on:** May 12, 2006, 01:55:48 AM »

Can anyone tell me how you set up the securit for a wireless router when both Mac and PC will be on it ??
Situation - my brother wants to put a wireless router on his ADSL modem. The house desktop is an iMac and his laptop is an iBook. The desktop would be hard wire connected. His daughter has a PC laptop though....

Can we setup WPA for the PC ? Does Mac run WPA ( I know zero about Macs) how do we set this up to be secure ?

Advice anyone ??

deSelys · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2006, 02:29:29 AM »

I've done it last week: it's possible if the Mac OS is at least Mac OS 9. It may be possible for previous versions but I've never tried it.

The airport application on Mac OS 9 could only be encrypted with WEP 64bits. I hope for Mac that WEP 128 and WPA are available in the more recent OS.

Nilsen · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2006, 02:32:36 AM »

WPA is no problem Sparks

I use WPA2 in my network with a mix of Windows and OSX puters.

Sparks · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:08:17 AM »

Thanks guys. The Mac stuff is all OSX so it should be all ok then.

Nilsen · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2006, 11:48:13 AM »

yup sparks

AWMac · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2006, 12:01:45 PM »

Did you all have to drag me into this ?

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