Advice on a good router for my MAC & PC

[BizBo]

Originally Posted by jamie.benning

Hi,

I am a mac user (don't groan!) and I have NTL Cable Broadband through a cable modem in the Camrbidge area.

I have just bought an XP PC for my wife to work on and so I hope to put both machines on a small home network (cable or wireless, not fussed).

Would you be able to recommend a decent router to enable us to share the NTL Broadband as well as the printer (USB) and files. I am aware that I will have to find a router that will spoof the mac address, but other than that, I need your suggestions.

Thanks in advance.
Jamie

All routers work on TCP/IP, and I know the MACs OS 8,9 and X utilise this, however the only limitation will be file sharing between the PC and Mac will be a problem, OSX supports the SMB servic. OS8, OS9 natively do not, this is easy cured by getting a piece of software called Dave (thursby.com)

Mac OS X is great but having said that the SMB support in that isn't the best so you could get Dave for OSX too.

So any router for cable will be OK. I use a linksys BEFSX41 works a treat with Apples and Pc's alike.


Around £80

Hope that helps

BizBo