Broadband on APPLE MAC

[salisbury]

hey there,

I have got a wannadoo Livebox set up on my main pc at home so I now have broadband on my main computer, but I believe I can connect my Apple Mac laptop to the intternet wirelessly, without any cables etc.....Does anybody know what i need to do or what I need to buy for this?

Its a pretty new laptop, its an Powerbook ....some people say i need to buy airport. It all sounds very confusing to me!!!

Cheers

[fo3nix]

Your livebox seems to be a wireless router too, so you shouldn't need the Airport (this is just Apple's own wireless router).

Check the instructions for your livebox to see how you can make it send the wirelss signals, if it isn't already.

Then turn on wifi on your powerbook and you should be able to select your livebox network.

[salisbury]

sorry but what is wifi ??

and how do i know my livebox is sending out the signals??

so in theory i dont need to buy anything or do anything really, it should be as easy as 123

????

[wideboy]

Have a look here:-

http://www.gnuhaus.com/ibook_keeper/k03.html

and/or ask post again, directing it at patflanel1 for help.

(I seem to have lost my formatting controls, bold etc.)

[fo3nix]

wifi is just wireless internet.

have a look here for enabling it on your mac:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=M ac/10.4/en/mh636.html

you may have a little icon in the top-right of your mac, looking a bit like a volume icon. hover your mose over it and it may tell you it's for wifi.

as for enabling the livebox: did it not come with any instructions?

[salisbury]

the livebox is working, i just need to know how to connect to it on my laptop.

Everyone keeps telling me apple macs are different to PCs and that you need Airport ??

[fo3nix]

they're wrong.

macs and windows PCs are both compatible with the internation standard of wireless internet, called wifi. For this you need a wireless router, which takes your internet signal from your phone line as usual, and transmits it wirelessly so your laptop can pick it up (it's just a radio signal). Apple produce their own wireless router, and call it the Airport Express. Or, you can buy any other wireless router you like that anyone else makes, and as long as it's wifi compatible (they all are), it'll work fine with your mac. I checked out your "livebox" thingy on the orange website (orange now own wannadoo), and it tells me that it's a wireless router. so it will work with your mac, and you do not need an Airport device.

your problem is how to activate the livebox's wifi signal. this I cannot help you with beacuse I've never seen or used one in my life. But I would be almost certain it should have come with instructions. Maybe someone else on here knows?

[fo3nix]

have you sorted it?

[Pat Flanel]

see here
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/review.php?review Id=1201
here
http://forums.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/forum_topic s.asp?FID=22
To access the router type http://192.168.1.1 into the address line of your browser and check to see if the wireless is turned on. Default password and user is admin.