Guess this will finally kick me to replace my aging G4 Cube with a Mac Mini. All my music is on the Cube, then gets shared out to the network for playback on my Powerbook, one of …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I haven't yet understood the hue and cry about Apple shipping iPods without Firewire cables in the first place. Firewire may be faster than…

Firewire is far better than USB, my Mini updates faster with firewire than usb 2.0. I am sad apple didn't put it on the nano

Quote: Originally Posted by DigitalEl Wasn't Firewire a technology pushed hard by Apple in the first place? Why have they now abandoned it on their signature devices? Apple …

Quote: Originally Posted by moki In *theory* FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 are about even... in reality, the bassackwards nature of the USB protocol ensures that this isn't the case.…

Quote: Originally Posted by robby818 This is very true. I have heard firewire described as a more "robust" technology and that usb is hampered by overhead. in my experience I …

In all honesty, whatever differences in speed exist between FireWire 400 and USB 2 on the hardware side are more than negated by software differences. Take any dual-interface hard …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Unfortunately that robustness comes with the penalty of extra hardware. More components are required to do all the error checking, etc. nee…

Very interesting! Thanks for the extra info! tooki

At home, my itunes library is on a networked drive in my server machine. I simply mount that server onto my powerbook and have a symlink of the itunes library on the powerbook. I c…

I setup my Linksys WRT54G through its web based interface and after I had done that I shut it off, plugged in my cable modem, powered the CM on, then powered the router on. I'm co…

Your router has the capability to report its MAC address (that's the hardware address of its WAN-side network connection) as ANYTHING you want it to report. So put your Mac's MAC …

I've had cable with the same provider for about 4 years, using the same router. 4 weeks ago I moved out of my previous house, and a week ago into my new house. When they installe…

I've cloned the MAC address, but I still have the same problem. I have internet fine, but the IP address I'm being given is an external address, not an internal LAN address from t…

I'm wondering if this could be being caused by a faulty WRT54G? As my wireless signal's just vanished, even though all the lights are still on at the front of the router. I've tr…

Honestly, based on the first post, my best guess is that the cable modem is plugged into one of the router's LAN ports, rather than the WAN port. tooki

Appreciate the suggestion tooki (and I'm the first to suggest simple obvious things when trying to assist other people), but that's not the problem. The cable modem's been in the …

I think you're right, Thorin - it sounds like your router's malfunctioning. If your hostname is getting changed to an ISP address, that certainly indicates that the computer is get…

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Mac I think you're right, Thorin - it sounds like your router's malfunctioning. If your hostname is getting changed to an ISP address, that certa…

To replace a WRT54G that you've been happy with, I'd say go for a WRT54GS. It has more RAM and ROM so it can handle more traffic throughput, and bigger third party firmwares (whic…

OK, well if it's all plugged in right, I have one other suggestion: In the "Advanced Routing" tab of Setup in the router, what is the Operating Mode set to? It should be set to "ga…

Again, thanks for all the help peeps. It is set to Gateway, and the DMZ setting is disabled . Can I just confirm that nobody thinks this is likely to be being caused by changes t…

Woah! I didn't see anything about ISP software... Please give details! It's quite possible that their software DID do something to your laptop that keeps it from getting an IP f…

Unplug the router, modem etc... Plug the computer directly back into the modem, and then turn them both on again. Get the IP, and now go through the procedure of connecting the r…

I set my system up! I couldn't register my new cable account without running their software. ghporter, I've described the ISP software in the original post. In the last paragrap…