Mac Forum / General / Networking / October 2006

PowerBook G4, OS X 10.4.8, Netgear WPN824
My ISP is Optonline and I have their Boost service which advertises a
maximum download speed of 30 Mbps and something smaller on the upload
side. When I connect my PowerBook directly to the cable modem the speed

I though the bug where Unicode messages appeared only in 9 point font
had been fixed. But, when I read this message
<1160358821.390917.246180@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
it shows up in 9 point text for me. Could someone else please try it and

I'm using MT-NW 3.5.1. Sometimes the font size is reduced (i.e., appears
smaller than the size I've set for Screen Fonts) in a group's subject
window, but is fine in an open article. Is there anything I can do to
fix this? TIA.

Trying to help my Daughter solve her computer problem from 900 miles away.
She has an Imac G4 with system 10.4
Currently she has a grey screen with no sad Mac only the spinning
beach ball.

OK, I can find dozens of questions about this, but no answers that make
a positive effect.   Here's the deal:
Mac Mini Intel with Tiger 10.4
FIREWALL is OFF

Using V 3.5.2 OS10.3.9
I have newswatcher set to download 2500 headers at a time.
Is there a way to fetch the previous 500 or so headers without changing
the "newsreading options" max articles to fetch preference?

I've been having MT Newswatcher 3.5.2 crash about every time I use it
(usually after getting through a fair amount of news). Often it crashes
while quitting (which is fairly harmless -- it saves newsgroups first).
But sometimes it just starts eating all CPU cycles or just crashes ...

I put this under "comm" because this is a p2p question...
Here is my scenario:
I take a lot of pictures at events.  I want to get said pictures to
another person so they can look at them.  I don't want to have to

Any comments/reviews on the Dr. Bott's ExtendAIR Omni external antenna?
My Airport Extreme Base Station is in my basement office and my wife's PC is
in the opposite corner of the house upstairs, probably a total distance of
50'. The reception is usually weak and difficult to ...

What's a good wired 4-port router (and switch) for OS X? I'll be using
it with my soon-come Mac Pro and Old Sawtooth, which will soon have a
new PowerForce 1.6 gHz processor in it.
I'm looking at a Linksys BEFSR41; it looks good, and it's cheap, but I