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le nubian - May 10, 2008 1:59:07 pm PDT #6173 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

question regarding airport express/extreme ...

in my home I have the cable modem in one room (upstairs) and a printer I'd like to network downstairs. Clearly they are not attached to the same computer.

Should I get an airport extreme for the room upstairs to initiate the wireless and then get an airport express for the downstairs office that has the printer?

Gris - May 10, 2008 2:23:49 pm PDT #6174 of 25501

Hey. New board.

Oops double post. My full answer is down a ways..

Jessica - May 10, 2008 2:23:57 pm PDT #6175 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You'll need some kind of wireless router connected to the modem, but it doesn't have to be an Airport. I have a Linksys router and an Airport Express functioning as a print server and they talk to each other just fine.

Gris - May 10, 2008 2:24:20 pm PDT #6176 of 25501

Hey. New board.

Should I get an airport extreme for the room upstairs to initiate the wireless and then get an airport express for the downstairs office that has the printer?

That's what I'd do. Assuming you can't move the cable modem to the same room as the printer and plug both into an Extreme.

le nubian - May 10, 2008 3:23:27 pm PDT #6177 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

excellent. thank you both. I appreciate the responses.

Jesse - May 10, 2008 4:06:38 pm PDT #6178 of 25501

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, here's a really minor issue. I'm used to the websites I've been to recently still being in the drop-down bar when I restart IE. And yet? NSM here with the new computer. The setting seem like they should be there. Any ideas?

Sean K - May 12, 2008 8:00:14 am PDT #6179 of 25501

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I just upgraded my MacBook from 2Gb memory to 4Gb. POW!

Wolfram - May 12, 2008 10:30:17 am PDT #6180 of 25501

Visilurking

I just got an Ipod.

I finally get it.

That is all.

Gris - May 12, 2008 2:47:12 pm PDT #6181 of 25501

Hey. New board.

The ability to edit my personal RSS feed on here was so exciting and spoiling (I read SO much better on a light grey background than a white one) that I installed Stylish on my Firefox. Now I'm catching myself writing custom sheets for a lot of pages I use regularly. Nice!

The TWOP recaps are MUCH more readable on a gray background with a better font. Which is good, since last week's GG recap is 36 pages long.

Hil R. - May 12, 2008 2:54:51 pm PDT #6182 of 25501

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

This feels like a really dumb question, but I want to download Firefox, and I can't figure out how to do it from the website. The link from the main Mozilla page sent me here [link] , and don't see a "download" link for just regular Firefox 2 anywhere on that page.

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