[macplee]

My TiBook is located in my office room which does not have a cable jack outlet. And I been told by my cable company that they can not install an additional outlet to my room because it's an apartment complex on the 3rd floor. They couldn't get in the wall to run the wire or something.

So the question is does DSL connection uses the same outlet as the cable TV outlet in my apartment?

Also, does DSL work with Apple's Airport?

Any help???? Any suggestions???

[Nobody]

DSL uses your existing telephone (not television cable) service. The main limitations in obtaining DSL are (1) that there is a DSL service provider in your area and (2) that you are located within a specified distance from the phone company's central office.

Any DSL modem with an ethernet interface can be connected directly to an Apple Airport Base Station (or directly to any Mac, for that matter). Some DSL service providers will offer you a USB-interface modem - avoid these devices if an ethernet-interface modem is an available option.

[Nobody]

You could get a wireless router and an airport card.

[macplee]

One more question than.
My ethernet port is already being used by my Xerox laser printer. Will I have to get a ethernet hub in order to connect the DSL modem as well as the printer?

I already have Airport and the Airport card set up on my TiBook, but will accessing DSL using the Airport slow down the connection? Don't know what speed the Airport can connect at. It's the first generation Airport.

[Nobody]

If you want to access the internet on your TiBook via your Airport connection, and if you are only using MacOS 9.x:
- connect the DSL modem to your Airport Base Station via an ethernet cable
- leave your printer connected to your TiBook's ethernet port
- MacOS 9.x will allow you to communicate with your printer directly via ethernet with the Appletalk network protocol, while at the same time obtaining an internet connection via the Airport interface.

If your TiBook is going to be running MacOS X:
- buy an ethernet hub and cable to it your DSL modem, Airport Base Station, and Printer. Configure your Base Station to allow "Airport to ethernet bridging".
- you will access the internet and print wirelessly via Airport.
- OS X does not seem to support the same setup as I described above for MacOS 9.x. However, the solution I just described for OS X will also work with MacOS 9.x.

The data transmission rate most people get with DSL is well below the average maximum data transfer rate the Airport wireless networking system is capable of. I would not worry much about it "slowing down" a DSL internet connection.

[macplee]

Thanks HMB for you useful advise.
My problem now is finding a DSL provider in my area. I like Earthlink, but they are don't do my town. Other providers don't support Macs and I will would have to buy their modem and other hardware.

I will shop around. Many thanks

[Nobody]

They don't have to "support" macs. All you do is plug the cable modem or dsl in and it works.