05-01-2007, 03:32 PM
The G4-500dp has been replaced by an imac on my desk. Wahoo! So the G4 has been moved to a corner, sans monitor, to simply serve video and music to my two eyehome's. An sata card is on the way so I can replace the external 250gb drive with dual 250 sata internal drives.
Probably the most interesting part of this setup is how I got network access to the machine. I didn't want to run wire so I took a spare airport extreme base station and used it to extend my existing wireless network. Then an ethernet cable runs from the base station to the computer. It still picks up the correct ip address which my new airport base station specifies for that mac address. I played some music and a video this morning and it appeared to work flawlessly. As I use it more I'll report back.
Dave
Probably the most interesting part of this setup is how I got network access to the machine. I didn't want to run wire so I took a spare airport extreme base station and used it to extend my existing wireless network. Then an ethernet cable runs from the base station to the computer. It still picks up the correct ip address which my new airport base station specifies for that mac address. I played some music and a video this morning and it appeared to work flawlessly. As I use it more I'll report back.
Dave