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<blockquote data-quote="cjburr" data-source="post: 1335178" data-attributes="member: 163088"><p>The user manual did the trick. I will be able to set up a network that will allow the iMac, and both MBPs to back up either wirelessly or through an ethernet cable and also set up a guest network to allow my kids to access the internet and each other on their iPod Touch and be able to limit this if necessary with the parental controls.</p><p></p><p>Some more reading will be required but it looks like I can set up to screenshare and also have remote access to my wife's MBP and the iMac should she run into trouble. This will be a godsend as I will be in Afghanistan for awhile and sometimes not even Skype can help.</p><p></p><p>I will say though that the only trouble we have had since switching to the Macs last year has been with the old wireless router I had and some issues with the cable/internet provider. The MBP have performed flawlessly for my wife, as she puts it,"it just works!" Mine has withstood the rigors of Afghanistan with only a few bad pixels on my screen and the HDD making some noise to the point that I replaced it with an OWC SSD, however the drive is still functioning as a backup without failure so far. Since maxing out the memory and installing the SSD my MBP is a screamer.</p><p></p><p>I will take it to the Apple store and see if they will fix my screen, I'm out of warranty but the fact that there wasn't a store here in Afghanistan may persuade them to fix it as a gesture of goodwill, I'll even pay the difference to upgrade to the hi-res screen if they'll let me LOL.</p><p></p><p>To others looking for answers I will highly recommend the apple.com support pages in conjunction with this site. I may have asked my questions too soon but writing it down seemed to help me a bit because as usual as soon as I ask something I find the answer myself making my question moot.</p><p></p><p>If anyone has any suggestions on other ways to skin this cat please feel free to post, I'm open to anything that may help or provide a better way to do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjburr, post: 1335178, member: 163088"] The user manual did the trick. I will be able to set up a network that will allow the iMac, and both MBPs to back up either wirelessly or through an ethernet cable and also set up a guest network to allow my kids to access the internet and each other on their iPod Touch and be able to limit this if necessary with the parental controls. Some more reading will be required but it looks like I can set up to screenshare and also have remote access to my wife's MBP and the iMac should she run into trouble. This will be a godsend as I will be in Afghanistan for awhile and sometimes not even Skype can help. I will say though that the only trouble we have had since switching to the Macs last year has been with the old wireless router I had and some issues with the cable/internet provider. The MBP have performed flawlessly for my wife, as she puts it,"it just works!" Mine has withstood the rigors of Afghanistan with only a few bad pixels on my screen and the HDD making some noise to the point that I replaced it with an OWC SSD, however the drive is still functioning as a backup without failure so far. Since maxing out the memory and installing the SSD my MBP is a screamer. I will take it to the Apple store and see if they will fix my screen, I'm out of warranty but the fact that there wasn't a store here in Afghanistan may persuade them to fix it as a gesture of goodwill, I'll even pay the difference to upgrade to the hi-res screen if they'll let me LOL. To others looking for answers I will highly recommend the apple.com support pages in conjunction with this site. I may have asked my questions too soon but writing it down seemed to help me a bit because as usual as soon as I ask something I find the answer myself making my question moot. If anyone has any suggestions on other ways to skin this cat please feel free to post, I'm open to anything that may help or provide a better way to do this. [/QUOTE]
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