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Hi all,
I am trying to figure out how to connect a MAC and a PC to the internet at my home. This may sound very easy to most of you but it has me stumped as to what I need to do. We have just bought a desktop PC as my wife needs it for work. We used to use the MAC with the airpot plugged into the Time Warner cable modem, so the MAC was completely wireless. However now we want to connect the desktop preferably with just an ethernet cable to the modem or the aiport (this is the bit that I can't figure out) and then have the MAC wireless as before.
So my question is, how do we connect the PC with a fixed line to the internet and still utilise the Airport for the MAC? There is only one ethernet port on the Time Warner modem. I looked into an Ethernet splitter however I understand that this does not split the internet service as a cable tv would.
Do I need to get an Aiport Extreme base station (Amazon.com: Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port: Electronics
and) connect this to the PC and cable modem via an ethernet cable and then plug the Aiport Extreme just into a power socket?
This is probably quite straight forward but I have no idea?
Thanks
I am trying to figure out how to connect a MAC and a PC to the internet at my home. This may sound very easy to most of you but it has me stumped as to what I need to do. We have just bought a desktop PC as my wife needs it for work. We used to use the MAC with the airpot plugged into the Time Warner cable modem, so the MAC was completely wireless. However now we want to connect the desktop preferably with just an ethernet cable to the modem or the aiport (this is the bit that I can't figure out) and then have the MAC wireless as before.
So my question is, how do we connect the PC with a fixed line to the internet and still utilise the Airport for the MAC? There is only one ethernet port on the Time Warner modem. I looked into an Ethernet splitter however I understand that this does not split the internet service as a cable tv would.
Do I need to get an Aiport Extreme base station (Amazon.com: Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port: Electronics
and) connect this to the PC and cable modem via an ethernet cable and then plug the Aiport Extreme just into a power socket?
This is probably quite straight forward but I have no idea?
Thanks