{"id":11,"date":"2007-02-12T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/12\/apple-mac-mini-wireless-internet\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T10:43:10","slug":"apple-mac-mini-wireless-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2007\/apple-mac-mini-wireless-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac Mini – Wireless Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connecting a Mac Mini to the internet<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Once I configured my set up it was time to connect \t\t\tto the internet.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I run the usual ADSL – broadband connection via a \t\t\tDLINK wireless router. I don’t have access to a regular ethernet ports \t\t\tscattered around the house so I \t\t\trely on a wireless router to access the internet. The rest of \t\t\tthe Windows PCs have wireless cards or Centrino technology (LOL).<\/font><\/p>\n

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My Mac Mini has built in Airport Extreme ! – alias a \t\t\twireless network card. (And you though Centrino was weird) \t\t\tHowever connecting to the router was not as easy as the rest of the setup – \t\t\tso far. So here’s my experience. Hope it will help \t\t\tothers !<\/font><\/p>\n

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As with Windows opening the web browser called \t\t\tSafari on the Mac will reveal the Internet connect wizard. The \t\t\tkey settings are and I input all of them in as displayed. \t\t\tThe Mac Mini has a funny option of having to gave a location name. \t\t\tI presume it is so that it can work as a router its self ? \t\t\tHmmm… don’t know yet so I’ll have a play around with the settings \t\t\tlater. Anyway after following the instructions to the letter \t\t\tnothing happened !! <\/font><\/p>\n

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The router and the Mac Mini discovered each other \t\t\tbut they decided that they weren’t going to play together.\u00c2\u00a0 So \t\t\tyou can guess – I wasn’t happy that I had to waste even more time \t\t\ttrying to get the thing going.<\/font><\/p>\n

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This was not going to be as easy as setting up the \t\t\tPalm TX which has got to be the benchmark for ease of connecting to \t\t\ta wireless network !<\/font><\/p>\n

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I played around with all the wizard settings and \t\t\tstill no avail. Mind you I didn’t have network broadcasting on \t\t\tand a proper network password and DNS settings. Despite all \t\t\tthe correct inputs still no connection.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I had a little rest by now as it was getting \t\t\tfrustrating. I re-read the manual that came with the Mac but \t\t\tit didn’t reveal anything new or that I hadn’t already tried.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Undeterred I tried a few more things but \t\t\tnothing worked until off chance I tried the setup preferred network \t\t\toption. Volia ! it worked. 1 hour later I was on the Net \t\t\tand looking for updates !<\/font><\/p>\n

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My Mac Mini came default installed with OS X 10.4 \t\t\tand after pressing the update option was presented with at least \t\t\t500Megs of downloads. Oh well – So after an hour or so \t\t\tdownloaded and installed all the updates. Nothing went wrong !<\/font><\/p>\n

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I then installed the other bits of software that \t\t\tcame in the box – iLife 06.<\/font><\/p>\n

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So I finally ended with OS X 10.4.4<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connecting a Mac Mini to the internet Once I configured my set up it was time to connect to the internet. I run the usual ADSL – broadband connection via a DLINK wireless router. I don’t have access to a regular ethernet ports scattered around the house so I rely on a wireless router to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}