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#1 2008-05-27 3:01 am

brummy23
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Powermac 7200/90

A friend at work has an old Powermac 7200/90 that he used at Uni many years ago. He has a lot of work on it and wants to connect it to the internet. He has run a cable from the router to the mac but it wont connect, is there any settings or anything else that we are missing.

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#2 2008-05-27 7:53 am

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

Make sure TCP/IP is set up correctly and turned on. Especially for the appropriate port you will be using. i.e. built in ethernet


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#3 2008-05-27 11:52 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

Kill it with Fire.

Or do what this says:

http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/con … t/mac.html

Substituting your IP/DNS info, of course.


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#4 2008-05-29 3:45 am

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

thanks for your help.

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#5 2008-05-29 1:16 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

dvpierce wrote:

Kill it with Fire.

Or do what this says:

http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/con … t/mac.html

Substituting your IP/DNS info, of course.

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#6 2008-05-29 4:59 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

A few years ago I was offered 10 of those for free.
I declined.


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#7 2008-05-29 10:18 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

To be honest... without grabbing a g3 upgrade for the 7200 its probably going to be dog slow on the net.


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#8 2008-05-30 5:46 am

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

dhack21 wrote:

To be honest... without grabbing a g3 upgrade for the 7200 its probably going to be dog slow on the net.

7200s are lousy upgrade candidates. One of the very worst PowerMacs evar.


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I don’t have time to go round and round and round-It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could-‘Cause I’m mad as hell-Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

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#9 2008-05-30 8:44 am

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

Seriously - G3 upgrade via PCI card. :shudder:


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#10 2008-07-10 8:19 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

I used to have a 7200/120. Was Dog slow. Even a 300Mhz Beige G3 runs like crap on my broadband.


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#11 2008-07-10 10:23 pm

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Re: Powermac 7200/90

Your broadband has nothing to do with it. confused


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