I would like to thank all for responding to my questions in my pc to mac thread. It is not going to happen.
The mac thing didn’t work out. This afternoon I plunked down $2k of my hard earned cash and took my mac home to get started just like the commercials promise. right out of the box, step number 4 is to connect to the internet. Mac was able to see my home wireless network and prompted me for a password. Ten digits and click. fifteen seconds later, connection failure. I opened up my IBM thinkpad on the table next to mac and connected without a prolem. Five more failures, and I boxed mac up and took it back.
The store manager was sincerely trying to help and hooked me up with someone from the “genius” bar. He fiddled around about forty five minutes, and told me that I was good to go. Back home, mac would not even see my network until I forced it to. I entered the password, and recieved connection failure for my efforts.
My daughter’s friend was around, and he tried with his mac to connect. Yet another connection failure. His mac dual boots in mac and windowsxp pro. He booted up in windows and was able to connect with no problem.
I boxed mac up one more time and returned it for my hard earned cash.
I guess my network just speaks windows. So much for mac advertising…
I doubt very much that your wireless network only connects to Windows machines, but that’s beside the point, really.
My $30 wireless router connects just fine to my PC and my Mac. Personally, if you throw down $2K on a computer, it seems silly to let a $30 router stop you from using it. I’d go buy it back and play around in OSX to make sure you really wanna go back to Windows World.
true enough. i could have fiddled around with my wireless router settings and probably come up with a fix. after spending all afternoon and two trips to the apple store trying to get their hardware to work the way it is advertised, i was no longer in the mood.
Iwas trying to connect with a wireless connection, so no etyhernet cable was involved. I put the thread here because so many kind people answered my mac questions here. My post is partially to give those friends an update on my attempt and to thank them again for their kind help.
I have free wireless at my Coffee House…no encryption, its wide open. I have probably 10 times the number of macs having trouble connecting as I do PC’s. Many of the Macs connect right up no problem. Others never will. I don’t know why. I’ve never really looked into why, there’s usually a mac guru around who trys to help them out.