July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
866 pages
29h 18m
English
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Broadband Connections
If you have a cable modem, DSL, or office network, you're one of the lucky ones. You have a high-speed, broadband connection to the Internet that's always available, always on. You never have to wait to dial, disconnect, or download. You're connected to the Net via your Mac's Ethernet jack or AirPort connection, leaving its built-in modem benched.
Automatic Configuration
The real beauty of most broadband connections these days is that they require no setup whatsoever. Take a new Mac out of the box, plug in the Ethernet cable to your cable modem, and you can begin surfing the Web instantly.
That's because most cable modems and DSL boxes automatically feed all of the necessary configuration settings to the Mac (including techie specs like IP address and DNS Server addresses), courtesy of a glorious feature called DHCP. This acronym means dynamic host configuration protocol, which is techese for: "We'll fill in your Network pane of System Preferences automatically."
Note
The bad news is that DHCP doesn't necessarily give you a single, unchanging IP address, which can make it more difficult to use the remote control features of Mac OS X, like dialing in from the road. There is a workaround, however; see Section 22.1.
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