This is my change of plans

[n2mark]

My new IMAC G5 remains in my living room. I was going to give my daughter my IMAC 9.2 decided against this. What if I take this 9.2 and place it in my spare room, so if my daughter or visitors are here they have access to the internet, but if I want to be on the internet, I can do this in my lliving room. I'm an early riser, if I have overnight company they can remain in bed and I won't bother them if I want to enter the internet. There are times when my daughter comes home we both want to be on the internet.


I called Cox today, there would not be any extra cost if I bought the router myself and installed it myself. They said that Apple could walk me through this once I purchased a wireless. Is there anyone here who is doing this? Am I communicating correctly? Was this a difficult task?

[Poiuyt]

1. Sounds like a good plan

Except that I think both computers should be on OSX. That would eliminate a lot of headaches.

[emulatorloo]

2. Good Plan - connect wireless router to cable modem

Make sure both iMacs have airport cards.

Personally I use an older Apple Airport base station 2.0 -- it just works, no muss no fuss. Getting an Apple wireless router will cost more, but will be easier to set up -- here's ebay search for that:

http://search.ebay.com/airport-base-station-2_W0QQfromZR40QQsojsZ1

People seem to like the new Airport Express for smaller networks like yours. . .it is 130.00

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/


But other wireless routers will work too. Sorry, I don't know which ones.


Like Poiuyt says, put both macs on OS X. Much easier to deal with.

Here's apple's airport support page

http://www.apple.com/support/airport/

[n2mark]

3. I was told the 9.2

IMAC could not handle X. There are some things on the 9.2 I would like to access from my OS X 10,3 thought this would handle the problem.

[emulatorloo]

4. What are the specs of old imac - Amount of RAM and Processor Speed?

You can find this out by going to Apple Menu and choosing "about this mac"

(BTW you can have both 9.2 and OS X installed on the old imac if it can handle OS X -- you can switch between the two)

[rocktivity]

5. Depending on your 9.2 iMac's configuration,

you might be able to install OSX with the help of a program called XPostFacto. I recently put a G4 processor card in my G3 PowerPC. OSX doesn't work with processor upgrade cards, but XPF solved the problem.

:headbang:
rocknation