hey nerds what's up today I'm going to
be showing you another sick parlor trick
or old computer tip in this case I'm
going to be showing you how to hook up
any old computer in this case we've got
ourselves an IBM rs/6000 that doesn't
even run Windows and I'm gonna show you
how to hook this thing up to the inter
ami look this isn't even Windows does
this look like when goes to you know it
looks like a hacker operating system
that'll get your mom asking how to fix
your Wi-Fi so this right here is my VM
that doesn't even run Windows it runs
AIX and I'm gonna be showing you how to
set this thing up to the Internet and
get online and any old computer actually
not just these windows 95 old Macs
whatever you name I'll show you how to
set them up on the Internet so here is
our what we're gonna be using to get
internet now you can find these at
thrift stores but this is called a
wireless bridge or in this case it's
called a Linksys by Cisco wireless end
gaming and video adapter so that's a
fancy name for a bridge now basically
what this is is it's a device that takes
Wi-Fi and it turns it into an Ethernet
port now these are great because a lot
of times when you go online and you see
people talking about how to get these
old computers on the Internet
you see boomers saying back in Margot we
just shot wires through the room and
then off and off the time you get
powerline adapters and those don't look
great but these work great all the time
now if you can't find one of these in
your thrift store it's guaranteed and
then every thrift store is going to have
a ton of wireless routers some old ones
flash them with something like tomato or
dd-wrt if they don't have those some
routers actually support this out of the
box but it's called fridge mode and what
it does is it basically turn
this into an ISIL like adapt there's
also some kolonko range extenders that
have this feature as well they'll have a
bridge mode and you're going to want a
range extender for a bridge with a
bridge mode or a router with a bridge
mode but it's got to have a bridge mode
that's the trick it's gonna take the
signal in and spit out an Ethernet port
which any old computer can access which
is what we want here so how do we get
this thing to work well the first thing
we'll need is to plug it in so we plug
it in here and as you can see it's
trimming on so the thing with these
devices is to take a minute or two to
come up see it's it's changing colors
but what we're gonna do is we're going
to reset this thing to factory settings
so we're gonna flip it around and right
here is a little hole colt reset now all
routers happies you're gonna want to do
this anyway before we flash a custom
firmware if you're going down that route
I'm not gonna show you to do with this
there's plenty of videos and guides and
even if your router supports it but you
can find lots of routers to the thrift
store to support this too so we're gonna
reset this because this is a bridge that
does the same thing you're gonna wanna
do that anyway regardless if you get a
new one of these they're gonna hold it
down for like 30 seconds so what we're
gonna do is we're gonna have this held
for like 30 seconds just in case that's
the little trick with these old routers
or routers in general you got to hold it
down for 30 second serve bridge or
switch hold it down for like so many
seconds and we're gonna have it pressed
down and the reason for that is so we
can have this thing fully percent you
can get all the old passwords and
settings off so we've done that
if the greenlighter whatever maybe I'll
push this button again
so now I'm gonna flip this over and
we're gonna hook up a laptop to this and
it's pretty self-explanatory
so what we're gonna do to get this thing
connected to our bridge is first we're
going to turn off Wi-Fi airplane mode on
all right so this this bridge has been
100% reset right now and right now it's
in the factory default state so we're
gonna need is first be plugging Ethernet
cable in obviously and we route it to a
laptop that's preferably running Windows
and I'll tell you why now you plug it
into the Ethernet port on the laptop and
we're gonna open this up oops sorry
about that so basically what we're gonna
do is we're going to connect to the
bridge so if you type in ipconfig you're
gonna get some IP like 169.254 about
whatever now it'll depend on what bridge
you use or rather read the manual
because there's different ports and I
mean different uh not ports IP addresses
so in the case of the W et 610 we're
going to go to one 169.254 dot one dot
250 okay you see that right there
read online the manual on what it does
and use internet explorer I mean you
don't use the join rep rouser but they
keep giving you Internet Explorer for
purposes like this because what won't
work on Firefox will just work here so
we're gonna type the password and admin
and what we're gonna do is we're going
to go to wireless and we're gonna hit
manual you can do WPS but lot of routers
don't have that
because it's insecure so we're gonna go
to manual and we're gonna go to we're
gonna type in our our SSID
tomatoe 50 is ours and we're going to
change it to wpa2 AES and I'm going to
type the password in so one second so
once you click the fast phrase and
passphrase
and then you click processing I mean you
click OK and I'll say processing please
wait and you notice how it's got this
here and right now if we go to like it
says you're not connected now what it's
doing is it's setting it up and by the
way what you're also going to have to do
is it just make like I said real quick
just again make sure your wife is off
and it'll be setting itself up so right
now it's it's connecting the lights on
this have changed to indicate that it's
attempting to connect to the network
so it's doing its thing it these routers
take a while for some reason to do
anything why they deliberately make them
slow but that's how life is with these
routers in general so it's processing
please wait and now as you can see it's
automatically changed IP addresses it's
no longer 169 it's 192 168 126 so once
you've done that you're going to just
let's just open up a new tab BAM we're
now getting blasted advertisements and
MSN News look at this garbage garbage
content but hey we've got it working now
so now this is what we're gonna do on a
sure laptop then turn Wi-Fi back on and
we're gonna shut ur laptop and we're
going to take the table out and we're
gonna place it in our computer so we're
gonna move back here and we're gonna
plug it in the ethernet port
ban in the Ethernet port and it's lit up
here so we're going to place this on top
of here and we're gonna go set this
computer up so we're just gonna grab me
a mouse and we're gonna go through setup
like it once and we're gonna go to
configure network because why not I'm
gonna get the other stuff set up but is
we're gonna see automatically configure
using DHCP and we've got one Nick so
we're gonna go to next
dhcp CD has been started and there we go
let's see how it works when Weaver boot
it all right the moment of truth
can we get wireless internet from this
RS 6000 let's find out by pressing the
enter key so as we can see it is
currently getting connections from the
Internet to this router or well the
router in the other room from this
switch or not switch abridge but you can
also use a Wi-Fi router or range
extender with the bridge mode to do the
same thing so as we can see here we are
getting internet so as you can see this
is currently connected it's pinging this
and it's connected to this RS 6000 and
the RS 6000 has no cables going into the
other room so there we have it how to
get internet on any old computer with
Wi-Fi doesn't even need to have Wi-Fi
support people this is what I call a
nice parlor trick or at least a nice
little way of getting Internet out of a
computer without even having to go all
the way so there you have it Internet on
AIX and any old computer 95 Mac OS 9 try
this today it'll work
so there you have