Can I access my Airport Extreme Remotely?

I want to set up an Airport Extreme at our vacation cottage out-of-town, for guests to use.
Because the cottage is far awsay from where I live, is there a way I can access the AEBS remotely (say, from home), to check that it's working and to reset/reconfigure it if necessary? I don't plan to have a computer connected to the AEBS when I'm not there.

Yes you can - but the bigger problem caused by the fact that unless your ISP provides you with a static public IP address for that base station, its public IP address will change over time and you won't know what that new IP address is. The Airport Base Station is not designed, unfortunately, with a built in update client so that you could get around this problem using a service like that provided by http://www.dyndns.org
Resetting and reconfiguration should never be necessary anyway. Just leave your guests an instruction page for what to do if they cannot get an internet connection. Just the basics - like pulling power to the modem and base station for a moment to reset the connection. That type of thing.

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