Mac Forum / General / Networking / July 2005

I'm trying to help somebody that has an Imac with 9.2.  She cannot get
onto the internet via her cable modem (it was working fine). The best
guess as to what it needs is a new network connection and the least
expensive would be going through the USB.  I'm trying to find one that

For several months I've had a problem connecting to the Internet wirelessly with
my G4 iBook. The problem first showed itself after an upgrade to OS X 10.3.7 and
now the Wi-Fi signal fades in and out and does not reach as far as it did
previously. I've pretty much determined the ...

PageSender, when I start, says:
"Mac OS X's built-in fax software is on.
Please select System Preferences from the Apple menu, and under the
faxing tab in Print & Fax uncheck 'receive faxes on this computer.'

I have a G5 desktop and Powerbook running 10.4.1, Linksys wired router
(BEFSR41) and Earthlink ISP. I would like to have both connect to the
internet with my DSL modem, but Linksys support is nonexistent.
I have done some reading on DHCP, NAT, VNC, and VPN, but I lost on what

What is the best system for OS-X to keep running smooth.  I've used
MacSweeper and found it did more harm than good.  Right now I've got
System Optimizer 4.6.2 and it does work but is there better?  And what
about spyware detecters?  I must have spyware by now but haven't

Is there any way of BCCing myself in on all outgoing email in Mail
(os-x tiger)?
Please help, i've just dumped Entourage (because of Spotlight, Address
Book and Smart Mailboxes), but need this feature!

I just got FIOS today. They gave me the DLink 604 router. I have a Link
WRT54GS wireless router that I can't configure to work with the DLink.
previously had a Westell DSL model working perfectly fine with th
Linksys. Verizon will not provide any support for anything but thei

This isn't really "a problem" - just a question.
When I'm reading newsgroups (I use os 9.2.2 and an OLD version of Netscape
Communicator [4.08], still works fine for viewing text-based news groups), I
will have my group list in front of me, and it will show something like

There's a built in modem and provisions for a headset.  Is there any
software that will me dial a local number and talk using the computer
headset like a normal phone.  (Note:  this is not VOIP.)  Ideally the
software would have voicemail caller ID, and a database which would allow ...

My wife had to get a Windows laptop, and I'm trying to connect it to our
Airport. It has a 802.11b/g card (we have the old original airport b
version), but it's not connecting even when next to it reliably. When it
does connect, it's not able to get out onto the internet. Googling ...

I've got Safari vs 1.0.3 (v85.8.1) on my iBook with OS 10.2.8
When I open some websites instead of getting the complete page, parts of
it are the Quicktime Player logo.  I can't download/reinstall it again
as the only version available is 1.2 and that won't install on my OS.

I have set up a small wireless Mac network using two Linksys
WRT54G routers rather than Apple AirPort Extreme equipment. I
used the Linksys routers rather than AirPort for a number of
reasons: cost, desire to customize/hack, and the desire to

Was downloading via BitTorrent and wget, then terminated both. Only Finder
running, yet download activity (via MenuMeters and Activity Monitor) show
~20KB/s download running. Upload activity is minimal (few bytes/sec).
Activity Monitor shows nothing I can identify as the culprit ...

I'm trying to set up Verizon DSL with my 7100/66 (with a G3 upgrade
card) and I can't get the AppleTalk Control Panel to set to "Ethernet"
(it says an error occurs, and to check that the connections are correct
[it can be left to Printer, Modem, or Remote]).

Has anyone been able to get any of the USB/RS232 adpaters that use the
Prolific 2303 chip to work under OSX? I have tried numerous versions of
the driver that I have found online, and none of them seem to work. I'm
running 10.3.8.