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By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:42 +0000

Hi Trig – thanks for the comment.

So let me get this straight… your PC is acting as a gateway for the other machines, which are connecting to it via the hub? The PC is always on and connected, and the other machines ae effectively sharing this connection, right?

There are probably several areas to troubleshoot here, and I have to say I am possibly not the best person to do that for you. However, the first thing that comes to mind os the WinXP firewall – have you got it set up to allow all the machines through it? Older Macs use a different protocol, I believe (it’s been a *very* long time since I even looked at OS9, let alone 8.6 – which was the very first OS I had). Do you have any other software based firewalls in place, such as Norton?

One of the reasons I ended up getting a router was precisely because of the problems you are having. If the router is connected and dishes out the DHCP numbers, the rest is a piece of cake, relatively speaking. Beware that some routers do not like to work on a mixed network… I recently bought a D-Link router which was supposed to work, but just didn’t. The moment I added a different platform machine to the network it wouldn’t play fair!

I would definitely recommend you try out the LinkSys WAG54 which is just a delight to set up (about two clicks I’d say!) and has worked flawlessly for me for the last 6 months using PCs and Macs, laptops and desktops, wireless and wired. It runs Cisco software, so is very reliable, but one *slight* criticism is that the WAP on it seems to be a little underpowered – I get a weak signal in some parts of a not so very big house! Newer models may well have this sorted, of course. The router does tend to run a bit warm, but you could do a lot worse than get one of these.

By: Trig

Trig — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:11:31 +0000

I have a Dell PC running XP connected to the internet (usb broadband modem) and a number of macs connected to the pc via a network hub. the older macs (os 8.6 – 9.2) can surf the net fine but my newer macs (osX 10.3.9) cannot ???? I am able to file share between the new macs, the old macs and the pc. OSX network status shows a green light and a connected IP address but will not find the internet.
I have had all the computers surfing the net at the same time before, I’m at my wits end trying to work out why it’s not working now!!??

help!

Trig.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:49:28 +0000

I’d bet you have got your Win machine with a firewall on it… the default setting for a PC seems to be to turn on the firewall. My brother even had a software wall or two and wondered why he coudn’t ping between machines.

Just as a test, hunt down the setting to turn off the firewall (you’ll get a load of warnings about doing this – including the inevitable hell and damnation that will follow, along with the demise of an entire tribe of endangered hobbits… but do it anyway).

Once off, you’ll be pinging back and forth like a good ‘un!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I can ping my Mac from my PC (XP Pro), but not the other way around… When I go to network utility in OSX 10.4 and try to ping the PC it reports 100% packet loss. Basically I get up to the end of Step 2.
What could be the reason for this?