05-01-2007, 04:07 PM
kj4btkljv, I have a brand new airport extreme which has three ethernet (lan) jacks on the back. Two run under the house to the eyehome's while the third runs to my new imac.
The media server (g4) is plugged into an older airport extreme's lan port which is configured to extend the existing wireless network. That way the g4 uses the same ip scheme as the rest of the network and I didn't have to run any wires to it. It also allows me to move the media server to whatever location it needs to be in.
So far the speed of the wireless appears to be adequate for serving up video but of course more time will reveal any flaws. I will be doing most of my downloading from the imac which is hard wired to the main base station so it won't create any wireless traffic, so I think this will work out.
Dave
The media server (g4) is plugged into an older airport extreme's lan port which is configured to extend the existing wireless network. That way the g4 uses the same ip scheme as the rest of the network and I didn't have to run any wires to it. It also allows me to move the media server to whatever location it needs to be in.
So far the speed of the wireless appears to be adequate for serving up video but of course more time will reveal any flaws. I will be doing most of my downloading from the imac which is hard wired to the main base station so it won't create any wireless traffic, so I think this will work out.
Dave