Best itunes HD format on airport extreme wireless for macbook air unibody

Hi,
I am setting up a system for a disabled person and just bought a new airport extreme and the new mac book air unibody to begin set up of a varied collection of ripping CDs, downloading mp3s/podcasts, video and various other sources that will rise over 100 gigs. Here are several particulars about optimizing hard drives for wireless itunes to outline needs and concerns.
1. Is it practical or economical to use the airport extreme Gigabit Ethernet? If so, please recommend some drives/devices. The drobo fs is out of my price range for $600+ without hard drives.
http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo-fs.php
2. Will I have lag or performance issues using the usb 2.0 port with a usb2.0 hub and a usb 2.0 drive?
3. Is a a fast RAID 0 (striped) array WD hooked up to usb 2.0 worth price and trouble?
http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/405266/review/mybook_studio_edition1tb.html
4. Will itunes run better if it has a dedicated drive? We also need to store other large media files on this wireless hard drive setup.
Thanks

Don,
I keep my iTunes library on a separate drive and I've never had a problem sharing media from it via Airport Express with other macs in my wireless netwrok. The drive I use is a Wester Digital "My Book" - it is a raid 1 set-up connected to my imac via Firewire connection. I can't remember but I think I picked it up at NewEgg or Amazon over a year ago for around $200. You can probably find better, bigger and faster drives now for the same price or less at these places or at One World Computing as well. Hope that answered your question.
Steve

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On this particular computer I was setting up management with WorkGroup Manager. After restarting I do not get the list of users, as the iBook tells me that Network Accounts are unavailable. If I log in with a local account and log off I do get the network accounts.
Even if the students log in with a local account they experience difficulties saving to a network share.

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In short, the main benefit I have found is stability and communcaiton between devices on my internal home network. Your Intenet connection is based on what you subsribe and pay for with AT&T, which sounds like 3 Mbps and this will not change unless you incraese your Intenet package with Uverse.
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I recently transferred my internet service to another state.I have not yet moved my imac, just my pc laptop. I cannot get my airport extreme wireless router to work. The green light stays lit when everything is connected but I can't connect to the internet. Any suggestions?

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Power-down the modem, AirPort base station, and computer(s).
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Power-up the AirPort base station; wait at least 5-10 minutes. Note: The AirPort's status light may continue to flash amber after it has intialized. That is because, there may be some additional configuration items necessary, like setting up wireless security, before the overall setup is completed to get a green status.
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I am trying to purchase an Airport Extreme card for my 1.25Ghz iMac G4 17", but I seem to be finding a lot of iBook and other random Extreme cards, so I am lost which one is compatible with mine.
I found this one that also is combined with a Bluetooth card. I would love if this is the right one or if it will even work because i hate having to use the corded mighty mouse with it.
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Alternatively there are wireless cards available that go in the card slot. Again eBay is full of them but be sure they're OSX compatible - its a good idea to put this phrase in your search terms.
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