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Q: Network, multiple locations, and a Pismo!  Please help!

Right, friend got a Pismo, I have got it going and bunged OSx.3. Not ideal I know but she wants to get to grips with OSX before she buys something bigger and better.

She has at least 4 houses and wants to be able to take her Pismo to any home and immediately get on the internet using Broadband.

So, I need an ISP that offers a domain name plus email address (ie blob@blob.co.uk and www.blob.co.uk). I want to be able to set up her email so that it automatically gets her emails without going through another ISP and re-routing her emails to that ISP.

I need to know whether she needs to buy 4 routers and set up 4 different locations on her internet so that when she is in Home A, she tunes into Home A's router but is still able to grab her emails.

I am truly out of my depth. I think it would be best to set up one router, get it working plus her internet and then move onto the next house!

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Frances

iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Apr 3, 2007 12:24 PM

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Q: Network, multiple locations, and a Pismo!  Please help!

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Apr 3, 2007 1:09 PM in response to Frances144
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    Apr 3, 2007 1:09 PM in response to Frances144
    "Location Manager" will allow you to save all the relevant details of specific connection set-ups and restore them with one click. Look for it in Mac Help.

    If you want wireless service in four places, you need a base Station within 50 to 100 ft at each place, to receive the wireless signal. If your neighbor has one, and you are on speaking terms, do you need another?

    Using a Networking feature called DHCP, you can defer entering a specific Internet Address and simply "Connect using DHCP". Your Mac will broadcast a request for any nearby router to give it a [local, private, not web-accessible] Ethernet Address.

    Third-party email is easy to pick up with the Mac OS X Mail Application. You can have many mail accounts, and they need not have any connection with your ISP. email at Mac.com comes with .Mac service, and it is not your ISP, and it is simple to pick up automatically with Mail.

    You do not need a domain name. At all. Unless you are serving Web pages to others, and there you are generally better off hiring a service to do the Web Hosting.

  • by Frances144,

    Frances144 Frances144 Apr 3, 2007 1:37 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    Apr 3, 2007 1:37 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
    Thanks for that info.

    Friend does not want a .Mac email address. She wants a specific one for her name, ie mary@smith.co.uk.

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Apr 3, 2007 3:06 PM in response to Frances144
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    Apr 3, 2007 3:06 PM in response to Frances144
    I was writing quickly and just included .Mac as an example where email service is provided, but it has no connection to your ISP. Hotmail is another example. Google gmail is another. Netscape mail is another.

    The point is that you can use one or many email accounts, and they need have no connection to your ISP. Once you enter the account ID and password information once (for each account, if you have several), you can pick up all the mail just by opening the Mail Application. No forwarding or other foolishness required.

    You do not need to be connected via a particular ISP to use its email sender to send mail. You could be connecting from the other side of the world, it is not a problem. Mac OS X Mail logs you on with your account name and password, so you are good to go regardless of how you connected to the Internet.

  • by junkyardmax,

    junkyardmax junkyardmax May 10, 2007 9:07 AM in response to Frances144
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    May 10, 2007 9:07 AM in response to Frances144
    The other thing to consider is that most broadband ISP's are "open" with regards to e-mail on their servers - it doesn't matter how you log onto the internet (either throught their portal or a public wifi or your buddy's broadband) to get your mail - I have my Mail program set up to get mail from both my .mac account and the account I have with my broadband provider - and I can rsend and receive e-mails anywhere in the country using those accounts - just as long as I am connected to the internet in some way shape or form. It's a good thing.