Mac Forum / General / Networking / January 2005

I am using BBEdit 6.5.2 for OS X (panther), and am wanting a bit of Regular
Expression to use to find  two lines of text such as...
Title: A script to remove Apple Remote Desktop 2.0
Link: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040917120247831

The first beta version of MacSOUP 2.7 is available.
WARNING: I had to make pretty fundamental changes to the internal
database handling, I can't guarantee that this is free of bugs. This
release may well corrupt your data, please keep frequent backups.

I currently have a 1500/256 internet service over DSL.
I've seen DSL advertised at 3.0 and 6.0 download speeds.
I'm curious if any of you have upgraded to one of those speeds and if so
where did you see/experience the biggest improvement?

I am wondering if there is a simple (free or cheap) way of monitoring my
broafband usage.
I am currently paying for an uncapped service, and would like to find
out if I should transfer to a faster service that is capped (5Gb a

I've just installed cable modem internet access in my home and am using
Mac OS Panther for the first time. I want to enable port forwarding to
optimize my use of BitTorrent, but i can't figure out how to go about
it. I'm not that educated about firewalls, so please take a look at

Greatings:
One of the places I work has finally gotten around to upgrading the G4s
from Mac OS 9 to X v10.3. There is an unexpected problem with accessing
outside the internal network (the internet) via the firewall. As far as

My friend asked me to help him set up a wireless network in his home.
Right now he has a cable modem plugged directly into one of his laptops.
Both laptops have Airport cards installed in them. He asked if there
were alternatives to the Apple Airport Extreme wireless router that

I'm having the usual problem connecting to Windows shares in OS X. My "Dave"
license has expired, so I guess I have to find some other solution.
"smbclient" (Samba) in a Terminal window works fine, but what I really want
to do, is "smbmount" a share and use it like a drive. ...

I use a G4/450 desktop and have a 160GB Seagate ATA drive in it. I just
bought a G5 DP 2Ghz machine with a 160HD in it. I plan on moving my
G4's 160GB HD into the G5 and selling the G4 with it's stock 10GB drive
in it.

I have an original Graphite Base station that died. I replaced the
capacitor that's known to go bad prematurely and that lasted another
year. Ater it died again, I just bought a cheap D-Link that's worked
fine for the last couple of years. But I just bought a G5 DP 2Ghz

I have been doing a website for a friend - I'm just an amateur, and do
web design as a hobby. I have spent ages on this website, but I use a
windows platform and have no idea how it will look on  mac. So, I have
a very takey question - please, if you are using a macintosh computer,

I have searched and searched, but cannot find the answer to this one.
I am a PC user, whom has just made the transition to Mac.  I have a new
G5 Imac running the latest OsX.  I have downloaded MS remote desktop
and it works perfectly on the internal network, however, when I try to

I have a home network consisting of three machines, a Win XP box, a G5
desktop and an iBook. They are connected together using a D-Link
DI-614+, a 802.11B that also has various "high speed" modes. I'm using a
64-bit ASCII WEP key. Yesterday the G5 stopped being able to see the

Is there a FAX function built-in to OS X? Or must I rely on a 3rd party app?
(My Help Viewer is knackered, currently, so if this is a really newbie
question, I apologize in advance.)
PowerBook G3/400; OS X 10.3.7

I'm using an Asante' FR1104G router, with 2 desktop Macs connected with
Ethernet cable, and a wireless (Airport) laptop (iBook G4) connected
wirelessly. I use WEP and 64-bit encryption; my network SSID is not hidden,
as I couldn't figure out how to do that and keep from re-entering ...