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Jericho2550 said:
I also have an Airport Base station, I'm not really that technical on computers, I first had a Linksys wireless B, and decided I wanted to upgrade to G, so I got a Belkin Wireless G, it worked nicely, BUT, when I attempted to video/voice chat on iChat, it didn't let me, I called Belkin, they said I need to forward some port numbers or something like that, they said I had to call Apple then call them back, I did, and then called Belkin back, I finally input all the port numbers, but oh no, I didn't know which were UDP and which were TCP, I called Apple, the guy who took my call seemed confused, I just gave up and returned it...

got the Airport Extreme base station, I plugged it in, put a wep key, and I was set, iChat video works flawlessly, uploads over ichat work, no problems, all my Macs and Windows machines work smoothly, and I now have a wireless printer, and it was so easy to do, just plug it in :)

The router should auto-open the ports needed by local computers, what's the name of the service? Linksys WRT54G has this feature. Belkin's routers are lack of it, you need to open it manually.
 
tonyl said:
The router should auto-open the ports needed by local computers, what's the name of the service? Linksys WRT54G has this feature. Belkin's routers are lack of it, you need to open it manually.

well the reason I got the Belkin was cause it had the Mac OS X logo on the box, I assumed it would be Mac friendly, it was, but not 100%
 
Jericho2550 said:
well the reason I got the Belkin was cause it had the Mac OS X logo on the box, I assumed it would be Mac friendly, it was, but not 100%
As long as a router follows the standards for wireless networking (802.11b or 802.11g) then the router is 100% compatible with Apple computers. I have used multiple Belkins with Macs (and PCs) and they've always been decent routers.
 
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