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mycatisbigfoot
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on: April 19, 2009, 00:52
I have about 5 Phone net bokes in my house, What the hell are they? is it important for anything? I got them from my school with 4 other mac's that run os7 8, and 3 of them can run os9, I run os7 and os9 in my house, (I love os7 also, OK thanks, Also is it like for the old slow dial up interwebs? |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: April 19, 2009, 01:20
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PhoneNet is a type of AppleTalk networking. More details can be found on Wikipedia. Many people that collect older Mac systems find themselves with a drawer full of PhoneNet connectors. It is too slow to meet many modern needs, but it did provide a simple an inexpensive networking solutions for schools and small offices. bill
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mycatisbigfoot
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8 MB Posts: 8
Reply #2 on: April 19, 2009, 05:02
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How do i do this is there like a pdf or somthing, and would there be a way to get an lc 575 on the net with this,
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #3 on: April 19, 2009, 16:05
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The Wikipedia link in my earlier post, contains a link to the PDF manual for PhoneNet. Specifically it will take you Farallon-Phonenet. There are ways to share an internet connection over a PhoneNet network. One can connect a PhoneNet network to a standard Ethernet network and share the internet through a router. You can also connect to the internet with one of the computers on a PhoneNet network and use a software solution to share the internet over the PhoneNet network. bill
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #4 on: April 22, 2009, 13:45
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More on Bill's post: You will need some form of LocalTalk to Ethernet translator to go from a LocalTalk network to a standard TCP/IP ethernet network. The most common hardware solution was AsanteTalk, which was a box that acted as a tranceiver between the LocalTalk network and the ethernet. It is not longer made. I am not sure if Garvvin still makes a router/switch that will perform that function. The other way is to have another Mac running a classic OS and install the software LocalTalk Bridge. This turns the machine itself into the transceiver. I have a Starmax 3000 running 8.1 doing this now so I can use a Laserwriter 4/600 printer over the network. Going out to the net in this fashion is going to be slow. If you get it going, I would be interested to know if it is faster than a dial up modem. How slow: I used to model TCP/IP WAN behaviour in FileMaker Pro programs by running the program locally over a LocalTalk network. There were things happening on the WAN that were never visible on either a desktop version or on a TCP/IP LAN deployment.
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