airport help

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I bought an airport extreme so i could send my cable internet signal aorudn the house (I know, probably overkill, but it looks pretty :)). so this is my setup. I have a power mac g4 connected to the airport through LAN, my airport connected to cable modem through WAN. My problem is this. Airport admin utility isn't detecting the airport and when I run setup assistant it tell me it can't find an airport card so I shuold restart and try again. Well, I know I don't have an airport card because the airport is in direct link to my g4 through LAN.

Can someone help? I jsut want to be able to setup who has access to my cable internet.

by the way. My pc finds the apple network and it runs fine. But that means that anyone within 50m (supposedly), can also gain access.
 
Do you have your internet set to automatic and ethernet? (system preferences>Network)
 
But you are no longer direct to the cable modem. Can you change the settings?

Are you able to go to web sites and get and send email on that machine?
 
yes, I am able to everything I used to be able to do. It is like nothing is different. One difference that I note is that my ip address changed from my isp's address to the airport's address (the 10.0......)
 
Using the airport address in your browser, see what setting you have there.
 
I figured it out (kind of). My airport base station still does not show up in the admin program as an option. But I chose the option "other" and manually typed in the ip address of the base station, and the default password ("public"), and from there I could modify the settings.

It still really bugs me that my computer can't "see" the base station.
 
I've only had my imac for a few months and have worked on pc's
for a long time, so easy on the flames, but,
I had the same problem with my airport extreme when I was trying
to port forward to other computers on the network.
I came up with 2 solutions:

1) Do a complete hard reset of the airport
(I didn't do this because everything seemed to be working
other than airport admin access)

2) I found the Airport Admin Utility for Windows (by apple)
and this works flawlessly on my XP machine.


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just for an update in case anyone else has the same problem. It must have been my cable modem. I don't know exactly what kind it was, but it was a linksys from comcast. It crashed on me and comcast came out and gave me an older motorola cable modem. Now everything works peachy. I suppose it could have been something with comcast also...that when they installed the new cable modem, the settings changed. I am not sure. But it was not the aebs.
 
Some of LinkSys's hardware is notorious for not being completely compatible with Macs -- I had a few 10/100 8-port switches from them that would drop connections randomly. Replacing them with a different brand solved all the problems.
 
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