Rod posted over here about some things he can do with his home network now that he has an airport extreme box.
It got me thinking…..
I have just moved from a desktop at home/desktop at work model to using a laptop and backing up to my former primary home machine which has multiple drives and also has the printer connected to it via USB.
Ideally I could decommission the study (nice geek terminology there) which would please my wife as I formerly spent an inordinate amount of time in there.
To do this I would need to….
- Connect something to my DSL connection
- Find some way of connecting a raid array via USB
- Printer share over wireless and via USB
Anyone out there have any smart/cost effective ideas for doing all of this?
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http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hddmulti/taurus/pdd_lan
Or something similar from their product line.
I had a quick look and can’t see the wireless bit you’re after – maybe just use a cheap wireless router for this …
Cheers Robin – Rod’s latest post bout his airport extreme experience kind of makes me want to go down this road too.
As this facet of technology evolves to do a million things, we’re back thinking what we want it to do. You might need to bake some cake and brew some tea (as Rod is doing) but then again most Apple gear is a cinch to set up out of the box.