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Originally posted by pony_trekker
You must have the Brother 7820N. I looked at the 7820.
This doesn't have internal wireless, does it?
The ad seems to suggest you plug it into the airport using an ethernet cable. My PC is plugged into the airport via an ethernet cable so what do I do, get an ethernet splitter? Haven't used one. I am worried that the cable company, however, could decide to bill us for two computers if it saw two MAC addresses.
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That's the model (pretty sure). I believe there's a wireless option, but not sure.
Here's what you need to do--get a cheap switch
like this (which is an internet splitter) and plug that into the airport. Then plug the PC and the printer into that.
If you have the airport connected directly to your cable modem, you're already set. The cable co will see the MAC address from the airport. You could add dozens of computers and it wouldn't know. The airport is acting as a router already, and distributing internal IP addresses to both your mac and PC (they probably all begin with something like 192.168.xxx.xxx or 10.xxx.xxx.xxx. Meanwhile, the IP address your Airport has is assigned by the cable co and will begin with some other number, not 192 or 10 (you should be able to confirm in the airport admin utitility or in your networking preferences)
