Easy Wireless at Home
- Get an Apple AirPort Express (or an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station if you don’t have a router and want easy router functions and/or a shared network hard drive)
- Plug it into
- your cable/DSL modem, router, switch, or hub
- your USB printer (if desired)
- your stereo (if desired)
- Set your laptop location to “Automatic,” select the Network (“Apple Network XXXXXX”) and you’re on-line.
- (See graphics for sample network setup with a router and without).
Securing the Station and/or Sharing the Printer with Wired Computers
See screenshots at .Mac or download zip file of screenshots. The first seven show security setup. The last two show how to share the printer wth wired computers.
