Airport Extreme and hosting on line games

I have a group of friends with whom I play games. I am usually the host. With my old linkys, I would use safari to go to the settings. go to the settings and set the computer I was using to host outside of the firewall. I just purchased an airport extreme--I have several computers at home, one of my children has a laptop and my children are getting the iPod touch for christmas--and needed wireless connectivity.
The problem is that I cannot figure out how to set my computer outside of the firewall for the purpose of hosting an online game. Can you help me?

Hello, I have run into similar problems, though I am hosting with an Xbox360. I have the older airport extreme base staion (round one) so things may have changed. I typed in "default host" in the airport help and this is what it said:
Setting up a default host on your network
If you want to play network games, you can set up a computer on your AirPort network as the default host. This computer will be exposed to the Internet and receive all inbound traffic.
To set up a computer as a default host:
Open AirPort Admin Utility, located in Applications/Utilities.
Select your base station from the list and click Configure.
Click Base Station Options, then click WAN Ethernet Port.
Select "Enable Default Host at." The default IP address is 10.0.1.253. Assign this address to the host computer.
So hopefully this helps you out.
Don

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Hello Bob Timmons,
Thanks for your insight in this.
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i have an airport extreme and my computer runs Microsoft windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I receive an error message saying " airport requires that your computer is running windows xp sp3 or windows vista sp1 or newer"...why?

It is required to be able to connect. Download SP3 here. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24
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