annabelhodges.com

As blogs are a legitimate way to write about anything to do with me me me (honest) – I thought I’d write a me me me post that hopefully might save someone else 2 hours of their life another time.

It started when our router blew up last night and myself and my two housemates had mini heart attacks at the thought of not having instant access wireless internet available. (I KNOW!)

So I set up my Apple Time Capsule to act as the router – I’d previously just used it as my backup disk running parallel to our house network so had never considered whether it would work as a suitable router. So I reset it, played a little to get it to boot properly (aside note: keep holding the reset button WHILST plugging in the TC, then reset the modem – do it other way round and modem won’t find TC) and went happily on my way.

Shortly after my housemate told me he still couldn’t connect to our network on his desktop PC. Much config-ing and reconfig-ing ensured and still nada. I returned home this evening, and set about trying to figure this out. So, 2 hours later, in brief – here’s the very simple points you need to cross off on your checklist to get a TC to work as a suitable router for a house with both macs and pcs:

And voila – ip config renew and job is a good’un. And simple beings like myself can go to bed feeling smug and content.

Bonne nuit!