Article: 281929 of comp.sys.mac.system From: nepst@dolfijn.nl (Hans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: 2 airport base stations communicating Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:51:23 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 42 Sender: btgbv@node185d7.a2000.nl Message-ID: <1ekd7ps.48hvfy4zd4goN%nepst@dolfijn.nl> References: <1ejxxze.tyy77k1lpswzoN%nepst@dolfijn.nl> <1ek3h62.1diw4uw1lh9bx0N%nepst@dolfijn.nl> <1ek33f9.1d7us6hmg4k74N%VArase@pobox.com> <1ek3tql.c0wpcy89k94pN%nepst@dolfijn.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: node185d7.a2000.nl X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 974670683 581 24.132.133.215 (19 Nov 2000 21:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Nov 2000 21:51:23 GMT User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.5 (unregistered) Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!demos!news.rssi.ru!newsfeed.sovam.com!newsfeed.rt.ru!news.tele.dk!194.109.6.150!transit.news.xs4all.nl!nepst Xref: news.meer.net comp.sys.mac.system:281929 > > Judi Sohn wrote: > > > > I know that I remember reading somewhere that the problem is in the > > software in the base station which has been intentionally configured not > > to be able to see another base station on a network. > wrote: > It's not like that. It's more like wandering into a radio station, > asking to see the transmitter tower, and them asking them to make > it receive instead of transmit. It /can't/ do both at once. It > /could/ receive instead of transmit, but then it wouldn't be a > transmitter any more. > > An airport card knows how to find base stations: it can scan > frequencies. A base station /can't/ scan frequencies: you set its > working frequency when you configure it. If two are working on > the same frequency they'll interfere. If they're working on > different frequencies then they can't see each-other: they have to > stick to their own frequency. > > [Above is simplified and is intended as metaphor not electronics.] > > Simon. Well, nice try Simon... :-) but when I take out the wavelancard (that is inside the basestation and it does the real job) and put it into my powerbook pcmci slot, it just works fine as transmitter or receiver (I can join an airport network or be a basestation, I only have to reconfigure the software). You don't need to have 4 wires in a telephone cable, 2 are enough, you can still talk and listen at the same time... > [Above is simplified and is intended as metaphor not electronics.] I agree, to achieve my dream I cannot have the 2 basestations work at the same time as 'transmitter' (that is the factory setting), I just would like to reconfigure the software of one basestation, to turn it into a 'receiver'. Nobody has really convinced me yet that this can't be done. Hans