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Posted by: SelfishMillennial99 on 2025-05-25 13:36:48
So the Quicksilver I mentioned in other threads, is in a spot of the house where we cannot easily get wired network access and, given that my friend's mom only wants to live here another year at most before she sells and we all move to a house she is building, I dont find it prudent nor do I wanna put in the effort to run a network cable 3 Stories from the basement, fishing thru a wall full of knob and tube and god knows what else. So that leaves wireless. The rest of the house is covered by a Wireless AC Time Capsule and little AirPort Express access points. (I love apple networking, and refuse to upgrade). But WPA2 is not supported by OS9. OS9 seems to only support WEP and.... well yeah im not doing that. So I have this idea of creating a guest network with no security at all. It seems that the traffic on Airport guest networks is on a separate VLAN so any rogue elements that joined would at most only use bandwidth. I can turn the guest net off when the quicksilvers not being used, and at this point I dont see any other way of *easily* getting it online. Penny for your thoughts? |
Posted by: A24A on 2025-05-25 13:50:27
A wireless Ethernet bridge device connected to the Ethernet port of the Quicksilver computer could be one way to solve a problem like that. This could be a Wi-Fi range extender with Ethernet capabilities operating in a client/adapter/bridge mode (Edimax EW-7438RPn Mini is just one example). Special software/drivers would not normally be needed. Wireless security such as WPA2 would be supported. |
Posted by: nathall on 2025-05-25 15:32:46
I use these to get Internet to my Macs that aren’t near the Internet modem and don’t support wireless:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X3GX99C
One plugged in at the Internet modem, and one at the computer desk that then feeds a Cisco wired router, although the router wouldn’t be needed if it’s just one computer. |
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2025-05-25 17:32:17
A TP-Link TL-WR802N works great... Have one on my G4 DA. |
Posted by: MBehr on 2025-06-20 10:16:00
So the Quicksilver I mentioned in other threads, is in a spot of the house where we cannot easily get wired network access and, given that my friend's mom only wants to live here another year at most before she sells and we all move to a house she is building, I dont find it prudent nor do I wanna put in the effort to run a network cable 3 Stories from the basement, fishing thru a wall full of knob and tube and god knows what else. So that leaves wireless. The rest of the house is covered by a Wireless AC Time Capsule and little AirPort Express access points. (I love apple networking, and refuse to upgrade). But WPA2 is not supported by OS9. OS9 seems to only support WEP and.... well yeah im not doing that. So I have this idea of creating a guest network with no security at all. It seems that the traffic on Airport guest networks is on a separate VLAN so any rogue elements that joined would at most only use bandwidth. I can turn the guest net off when the quicksilvers not being used, and at this point I dont see any other way of *easily* getting it online. Penny for your thoughts? I was just trying it the other day. If your main access point is Apple, then supposedly Airport Express can be used to extend it and bridge to wired Ethernet. There seem to be appropriate settings in the Airport Utility. My AP is not Apple so it did not work, but who knows. |
Posted by: adespoton on 2025-07-04 17:46:28
You can also do this with an Airport Extreme (any vintage). I have one of my Extremes set up as a vintage AP in a DMZ (anything can connect, but it can't see the rest of my network, only the Internet). Although I did this by placing the Extreme itself in a DMZ on my router, not by using the Guest Network feature of the Extreme. |
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