On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:14 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> P.S. An amusing side note. We have a wired/wireless network at home.
> All of our computers have a fixed IP address (many Linux, 1 Windows,
> now a.........mac something). The wired router has DHCP enabled, but
> not the wireless router. Anyway, she cannot connect the Mac wireless
> network, so we called Apple. The agent on the line insisted that all
> networks have to have DHCP enabled in order to work. In the Mac
> networking screen, it has as options "DHCP" and "DHCP and manual",
> where you enter a fixed IP address (but no netmask or other networking
> bits). The agent said until we enable DHCP for the wireless network,
> we had a broken network, and should call back anther time when we had
> fixed the network problem, and then hung up! My first experience with
> Apple support.....not very satisfying.
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I am the last person to support Apple but I think that running 2 routers
on one network does cause a number of issues with networking that you
cannot expect them to solve. And if you have ever been routed to India
for Quicken or Quark Express support, you will applaud Apple for their
quality support.
Unless you have some specific reason to two routers, the wireless
'router' should be put into some type of network 'bridge' or access
point mode which turns off the router functions completely and just
becomes another device on your one network that bridges your network to
authorized wireless devices. At that point, when Apple asks about your
setup, you only have 1 router.
Craig
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