Suprasteve Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I have a PC (XP) and my girlfriend has an Apple Mac G5 (OSX & OS9) but we only have one Broadband connection. We have to keep swapping the usb connector between each computer whenever we need to go online which is a total pain in the arse. Is there a way of running both online at the same time ? My Bruv in law tried setting up a "Hub" which allows file sharing but can't sort the broadband issue out. sorry i'm not a very technical person when i comes to computers so please talk to me like i'm a 6 year old. any help will be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Has he made sure the Mac has TCP/IP set up as a protocol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 You could set both up on wireless Lan would cost around £100 details here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Get yourself a 4 port router. Your PC and Mac would connect via the LAN ports to this and the ADSL line goes into the router. Cost less than 50 quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 You can feed the usb into the mac and then share out the connection from there, hooking the mac and pc together via NIC cards. In fact you can prob do it the other way round with XP. Just a tick box somewhere in network settings to 'share connection' or seomthing like that... sorry thats a bit vague it's difficult to remember without looking at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Should be ok using the hub tho shouldn't he? (Sorry I've never used MAC's *yuck*) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I remember it being a right PITA, it's to do with it being a USB modem connection. The mac part is easy, it was the windows bit that needed slapping into line. If I was doing it I would go with Rogues suggestions, buy a non usb router/switch/hub/firewall all in one jobbie that'll be the easiest way but if you want to to try and do it with whats there then it can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Get yourself a 4 port router. Your PC and Mac would connect via the LAN ports to this and the ADSL line goes into the router. Cost less than 50 quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprasteve Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 thanks for all your replies people. this is all way over my head i'll print these suggestions off and show them to my bruv in law to orgainise. thanks again... all i can say is sod Jeeves, ask mkivsupra.net instead !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I have a PC (XP) and my girlfriend has an Apple Mac G5 (OSX & OS9) but we only have one Broadband connection. We have to keep swapping the usb connector between each computer whenever we need to go online which is a total pain in the arse. Is there a way of running both online at the same time ? My Bruv in law tried setting up a "Hub" which allows file sharing but can't sort the broadband issue out. sorry i'm not a very technical person when i comes to computers so please talk to me like i'm a 6 year old. any help will be appreciated. If it was my system I would do what Rogue and others have said and invest in a cheap ethernet -> adsl router. *However* it sounds as though you are only two mouse-clicks away from being able to share the connection. If your brother has file sharing working through a hub (presumably an ethernet switch as hubs are a bit of a thing of the past) then all you really need to do is turn on "Internet connection sharing" for the Broadband connection. via Control Panel -> Network Connections, right-click on the broadband connection, go to advanced, and tick "Allow other user to connect through this computers Internet connection" or similar. Then perhaps reboot the Mac. Only problem I can forsee is that your Bro might have manually set some IP addresses to get the file-sharing working. You'd need to set TCP/IP on the Macintosh to "use DHCP/BOOTP" or "obtain IP address automatically". Even if you get an Ethernet -> ADSL router, you'll still need to get the Mac to use DHCP. obviously this is all with the USB modem connected to the XP machine.. If you have any kind of third-party (Norton etc.) Firewall software running then you will have a much harder time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Only problem is you'll have to have the PC on to use the net on the Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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