New Member (not new mac user)

FatAl · #1 11-04-2003, 03:42 PM

I've been using Macs since 1988, both at work and at home, but have only just found this forum. Reading through a few posts I have to say I wish I'd found it years ago.

I have a G4 (OSX & 9.2.2), a Rev A iMac (Bondi Blue, OS 9.2.2), a Motorola Starmax with Sonnet G3 upgrade (OS 9.1), an SE/30 (typewriter and fax machine, OS 7.6) and a Plus waiting for a new life. Plus the usual HP laser printer, ink jet and scanner. Yes, alright, I'm a squirrel! The G4, iMac, Starmax and printers are all linked by ethernet, with cable broadband internet for good measure. (My house is festooned with cat 5e cable!). The Starmax has just been semi-retired from my wife's home-office after 5 years of around 100 hours/week running during which time the clock battery failed once. They don't make 'em like they used to!

Congratulations on a really well constructed site, and best wishes for the future.

**Chris** · #2 11-04-2003, 04:55 PM

Greetings, FatAl. Thanks for the nice words, and enjoy your stay.

Pete W · #3 01-14-2004, 05:55 AM

Hi FatAl,

I see you're almost just up the road from us.

When you wrote 'cable broadband' did you really mean cable (e.g. NTL) or xDSL (via a BT line).

We currently have NTL cable broadband to my wife's machine (a WinXP P4) while I'm still using dial-up. We would like to extend the broadband to a mixed network as we have a collection of both Macs and Windows Boxes. NTL told us that they 'do not support networking' although I had a detailed look through their Terms & Conditions and didn't find anything forbidding networking.

Since then, the NTL Broadband TV channel has made mention of a wireless networking system though I understood that to be limited to two computers.

Please could you share your Broadband & networking experience with us?

FatAl · #4 01-14-2004, 11:43 AM

Hello Pete W
Yes, it is real cable broadband from ntl and I'm only too happy to tell you all I know - which won't take long! As it's not likely to interest too many other MUG correspondents world-wide, I won't take up large tracts of forum space but I'll send you what I have as a private message. If it turns out that others are interested, we can always 'go public'. So if anyone wants to chip in, just pipe up!