Broadband for both Mac and PC

blt

Can anyone help please?! I'm very nervous about signing up to the wrong broadband package! I need a provider that will work for both a PC and a Mac. At the moment I've got the Orange livebox thingy for my laptop PC but need to connect to the internet with my mac for work. Orange won't do this. AOL said they would but I wanted to see if anyone had any experience of this, recommendations etc. Thanks!

shammyjack

If you use a Router to connect to the Internet you will be able to connect PC and MAC to any ISP and will be able to network both machines allthough this may take a bit of fiddling depending on which operating system you use on your PC .

shammy

espresso

I don't understand when you say that "Orange won't do this" If you go to this page and enter mac into the box and then click Find it comes up with articles of how to connect Mac's. Any computer will connect to a router using Ethernet.

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hey Blt,

I've got a Mac and a PC at home that I use in conjunction with our Internet services. You should be able to use both with any ADSL Provider, however the level of support you willl get will vary from provider to provider! I'd actually recommending calling a few ISPs and test their knowledge on Mac support (all ISPs will support PCs). Ask them if they support Macs, ask them if their router is compatible (it will be if it's at least got an Ethernet connection) and just generally test them out to see how comfortable they sound.

I've got a Mac G4 laptop running OSX and a PC running Windows XP - I use the Voyager 2110 (wireless) to connect the two computers. My Mac was already wireless enabled so it was really simple to set up with the 2110 and the PC (desktop) required a wireless adapter to get it online wirelessly.

The important thing to remember with Macs is that if you're not connecting wirelessly is to always use a Ethernet cable (not a USB cable) to connect. When you use an Ethernet cable you won't need to install any drivers on your computer, but you will need to change your connection settings in Apple icon > System Preferences > Network to the correct settings for your broadband account.

Good luck!

Kind regards,
Samara

Rex_Mundi

Zen Internet have dedicated (and seperate) Mac or PC technical support teams for any of their customers that use Macs/PC and run into any problems.