2 dial-up ISPs & 1 airport base station w/modem

How configure 1 airport base station w/modem for 2 dial-up ISPs?
Impossible?

You will need to reconfigure it each time you want to switch ISPs.

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    The only base station with dial-up capability (in addition to traditional ethernet equipped modem capability) is the AirPort Extreme Base Station w/modem. Check the Apple Store to look over the details, and make sure you are looking at the AEBS with the modem (there is also a version without a dial-up modem which will not work in your application).

  • Need some help settin' up an Airport base station for dialup

    Afternoon, all. As the handle says, I'm a newbie and I need some LGI about setting up an Airport base station to dial out. I just got a Macbook 2.0 yesterday, and I'm still trying to deal with the setup. This model has the 10.5 OS.
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    Hello newbietoapple. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
    Perform a "hard" reset of the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS)
    o (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451)
    Setup the AEBS
    Either connect to the AEBS's wireless network or connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the LAN port of the AEBS, and then, using the AirPort Admin Utility, check these settings:
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    o Base Station Name: <whatever you wish or use the default>
    o AirPort Network Name: <whatever you wish or use the default>
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    o Wireless Security: Not enabled
    o Channel: Automatic
    o Mode: 802.11b/g Compatible
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    My Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port is no longer recognized by the airport setup utility, nor will it allow internet connection. Has worked fine until last weekend when I did a full disk utility on all of my drives. Now I get a message, none of your trusted networks are available would I like to join (my network name)? Airport looks fine, can connect locally, lights up as usual.
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  • Airport Base Station - setting up base station to already existing network

    Hello,
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    OK - starts to make sense now. If you did a factory reset of the base station then more than likely the airport network name for it is the Apple default name, and you probably lost the WDS in Wireless Mode.
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    Apple publish setup manuals for their AirPort Base Stations - they can be downloaded at: http://support.apple.com/manuals/#airport
    1. Reset your AEB to its factory default again.
    2. Turn-off the AEB and connect one of its ethernet ports to your Mac by ethernet cable, and connect the DSL modem to the WAN port on the AEB by ethernet cable.
    3. Power up your Mac, the DSL modem and the AEB and wait for all to complete their startup sequence. Then open AirPort Utility - you should see your AEB under a generic network name. Click on the AEB.
    4. Use the auto setup procedure by clicking 'Continue'. Follow the onscreen instructions for setting up a new network. When asked, use the 'original network name' for your school network. When asked for a network password, use the 'original network password' for your school network (what sort of network security were you using - WPA2 Personal - use whatever you had previously.
    5. At some stage you will also be asked to give the AEB a name and admin password - use whatever they were previously.
    6. When the setup procedure is complete and the AEB finishes restarting, the AEB will reappear in AirPort Utility. Click on the AEB and click 'Manual Setup'. You may be asked for the admin password to get into the configuration profile.
    7. Click on the 'Wireless' tab and set the 'Wireless Mode:' to 'Participate in a WDS network' if not already set to this. While in this pane, look at 'Channel:' - do you remember what this was set to previously (if not, you may need to connect one of the other AEBs by ethernet cable to a Mac and use AirPort Utility to check the Channel setting.
    8. Now, click on the 'Internet' icon at the top of AirPort Utility. Check that 'Connection Sharing:' is set to 'Off (Bridge Mode)' - if not, change it.
    9. Now, click 'Update' and wait for the AEB to restart.
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  • Airport Base Station Set Up

    Hi, I've been trying to get an Airport Base Station set up for a few weeks. There is currently a problem getting wireless connectivity. The computer recognizes the base station, but does not see the server. I'm not sure how to get a wireless connection from the current location of this base station. The base station is inside of a classroom with reinforced steel walls and a steel door. I believe that this is causing a major issue with getting wireless connection. Is there anything that I can do to try and get connection? I tried hooking up an antenna, but that did not work. The only thing that I can think of is to get a few base stations and just hook them up going up the stairs to this classroom. I'm really pressing for the school to get an Ethernet connection so that we would not have to worry about wireless for this part of the building. This is the only part of the building that is really bad for reception. If there is anything else that I can try to get connection please let me know.

    If you could run a length of proper antenna cable to a QuickerTek unit,
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    wireless is even better; and depending on class size and expected other
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    base you use.
    The AEBS seems a bit more durable and has a few more features than
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    A few, in an older article about data over phone lines, include
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    The "Farallon HomeLINE network" was promising in some
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    Someone probably knows of a newer technology or a way
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  • Time Capsule / Airport Base Station Misconfiguration??

    So, I use my computer for anything but file transfer, tcp/udp connections, sharing, etc. I hired an IT service to come in and beef up my Firewall with a SonicWall. For data backup I use a TimeCapsule/Airport Base Station combo 3TB. Having the hardest time double checking the config on this one. Should have done it myself, but now am trying to fix the mistakes made by the IT group.
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    I would recommend that you do the following as a minimum:
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    It's true I'm not the most Mac savvy, but everything I've read seems to indicates this is plug & play, but so far not for me. 
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