"Myrtis McCall" said:
can you connect a router to Imac to work wireless with a
gateway xp 450 with a dialup connection
Yes. Refer to your router's User Manual for details of #2 and #3:
1. Connect the XP computer's Ethernet adapter to one of the wireless
router's LAN ports (not to its Internet or WAN port).
2. Access the router's built-in web server using a URL like
http://192.168.1.1 . If that isn't the router's LAN IP address,
substitute the actual address.
3. Disable the router's built-in DHCP server.
4. Enable Internet Connection Sharing on XP's dial-up connection,
using its Ethernet connection for the home network.
5. Configure the Imac to obtain an IP address automatically from DHCP.
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