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Originally Posted by Simurgh (Post 424958)

I am not sure what to look at since the modem is wireless, and she has no router.

If the modem is wireless, it probably contains a router. See if she can get to a setup/configuration page.

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Originally Posted by Simurgh (Post 424958)

A coworker just signed up for Clearwire at home and is completely unable to connect to our company's Mac Server (10.4.10).
She gets an operation failed message each time she tries to connect via afp. In the server admin utility, it show her connection as disabled/asleep. Disconnecting her so she can attempt to reconnect ends up the same way.
I am not sure what to look at since the modem is wireless, and she has no router.

She has no problems sending e-mail or connecting to any websites. So the internet connection is working, just not the ability to connect to our server (which is the most important piece).

Any ideas? :(

I too have this same problem, spent 2.25 hours on cust. service with Clearwire and they started to think blocked ports that the OSX server uses in its AFP Connection setup. I looked and don't see which port is supposed to be used?! Clearwire's modem doesn't have a router (I believe) I do have a Linksys wireless router I use for my laptop. However I ruled out the router since I plug the Clearwire modem directly into the computer (laptop or tower) and neither work. However I bring my laptop over to my neighbors DSL service and can access the server no problem.

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Originally Posted by cwtnospam (Post 424994)

If the modem is wireless, it probably contains a router. See if she can get to a setup/configuration page.

not necessarily. I use the same system in Canada provided by Rogers. The internet access is wireless, and the accesspoint provided by them does not contain or serve as a router. It has only one ethernet port, and it is not possible to connect to it from your computer wirelessly. It only connects to the service provider wirelessly.

If you want more than one computer in your home to have internet access, then you need to have a Mac share its access, or buy a router.

Likely it is a problem of blocked ports. Apple File Sharing uses port 548, hence the website www.AFP548.com