October 2, 2003

October 2, 2003
Greetings and Salutations,
I am on the Macintosh G4 computer, writing a document with BBEdit. I don't know if word wrap is in place so I will just keep adding text. Since this is all one long line I guess it is not. I went to Edit, selected Text Options, checked Soft Wrap Text and entered 75 in the to Character Width box. Now I have nice text wrapping in my document.

Unlike, the PowerBook this computer is connected to the airport eXtereme wireless network, so I am going to check if I can print this document on the HP 2200 and HP 4600 printers. Each of these printers is connected to the same switch as the airport eXtreme is connected to and thus are on the same network and available to any computer connected to the airport eXtreme wireless network.

First can I print this document on the HP 2200? The answer is yes.

Can I print this document on the HP 4600 color laserjet computer? Answer is yes again.

The MacBook Pro is connected to internet via an ethernet connection to the swith that is also connect to earthlink DSL. The MacBook is also connected (wireless) to the airport extreme.

Can I print a document on the MacBook to the HP 2200. Yes.
Can I print a document on the MacBook to the HP 4600. Yes.

On the airport eXtreme there is a connection to the internet and it is connected to the switch which is connected to the Gateway PC which in turn is connected to the Cable Modem for Charter Communications, which works very sporadically and does not give reliable internet access. There are also ports on the airport eXtreme to connect printers or other netword devices, one ethernet port, and one USB port. I have connected the HP 3330 printer (which is not a network printer) to the USB port on airport eXtreme, now can I print this document out with the HP 3330 printer? The answer is no. I could not print this document on the HP 3330 connected to the USB port on the airport eXtreme. I could not print a doc on the MacBook to the HP 3330 connected to the airport USB port.

Now can I print this document to the HP 3330 when it is connected to a USB hub on this computer, the G4? The answer is yes it did print.

Can I print a document on the MacBook to the HP 3330 when it is connected to a USB port on the MacBook? The answer is yes.

For the next experiment I plugged the ethernet cable on the HP 2200 directly in to the ethernet auxillary port on the airport eXtreme.

With the HP 2200 plugged directly into the ethernet port on the airport extreme could I print this document? The answer is yes.

With the HP 2200 plugged directly in the ethernet port on the airport extreme could I print a document on the MacBook? The answer is yes.

My next experiment will be to use the G4 which is connected to the internet through an ethernet connection to earthlink DSL and see if I can reinitialize the airport extreme to access the internet through the earthlink DSL modem (via the linksys 8-port 10/100 switch).

Obviously this post did not come from my iPhone. I created it with BBEdit on the G4.