Reader Question: Wireless Setup

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Mark, I'd be interested in reading what else you have done to remove the wires from your office. I'm looking at as much as possible to wireless and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start. --James Here is a general overview of our setup. Apple Airport Extreme - This sits on a chest of drawers across the room from my desk. It hooks into DSL and also into an external 500GB hard drive. Our house is small enough that it covers the whole thing, but in the past I've exanded the network with additional Airport devices. I have also used an Airport Express to hook up desktop computers that have a network connection, but not a wireless card. I use WPA encryption on the wireless network. … [Read more...]

Wireless Card Reader

I have been attempting to move everything possible to wireless.  There is only so much you can do to route wires to keep them from looking sloppy.  Getting rid of the wires entirely is ideal. I was pleasantly surprised to find that my new printer (HP 2605dtn) has a memory card reader that shows up on as a network drive in OS X. I can stick in a card and then pull it down to my computer over my Wifi network.  So there is one less device and wire I have to keep on (or near) my desktop. … [Read more...]