Can I connect my new AirPort Extreme to a PC as the hub instead of a MAC?

Hi,
I bought a new 27" iMac today and an AirPort Extreme. However, my husband and I want to connect the AirPort Extreme to our cable modem and our PC laptop as the "hub," and then wirelessly link my iMac, my iPhone, my iPad, and our Apple TV to it. This is because of where our cable jack is located.
Is this possible? It seems not to be working when hooked to the PC??
Cab nan anyone help me?

Basically it is going to not be possible..
If you want to run the Airport Extreme a long distance from the cable modem.. then either buy an express and plug that in to the cable modem and wireless extend that to the TC..
Or buy a set of EOP adapters and use that in place of ethernet.. which is the one and only "RIGHT" way to do it.

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It has connected but drops the connection intermittently and then sometimes it fails to get a connection at all. It can see the AirPort, but says it can't connect. This happens paticulalry if the laptp has been left to hibernate.
I have installed the AirPort utility and I have turned off the power option that turns off the wireless card. I have done all of the Windows updates, and I have updated the drivers from the manufacturer website.
Any ideas? (Don't say use the Mac, this is my sister's computer, not mine!!)
Thanks.

Thanks for clarifying. If you don't mind, let's double-check your extended-network setup configuration:
o Open AirPort Utility and select the Time Capsule (TC), and then, choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu.
o Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then, click Wireless.
o Verify that both “Create a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu and “Allow this network to be extended” checkbox are selected.
o Next, select the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn), and then, choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu.
o Verify that “Extend a wireless network” has been selected from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu. Also verify that the correct Network Name is shown for the network you want the AEBSn to extend.
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You are asking several different questions. If you need to store your photos, music, and movies on an external volume, you certainly can. Any externally connected hard disk drive will work, connected either directly to your Mac or to your Time Capsule as a shared volume.
You should not rely upon using that as a backup device though. Although you certainly may use it for both purposes, it is a better idea to have dedicated backup devices for a variety of reasons not limited to redundancy. You would not want to simultaneously lose all your pictures as well as your backup. If they are all on the same device, that could happen. Furthermore, a backup cannot back up the volume on which it is running.
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I've a few other things connected to the AE such as computers, ipad, itouch, etc, and have never had a problem connecting these once I've entered the mac address into the AE. Can anyone help me with this please?

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Tap it again to choose it.
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When you can, take a look at the old AirPort Express and locate the model number in the faint print on the side of the device.
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I have been trying all Summer to get an iPad I, running iTeleport, to create an external connection, (not wi-fi), to my MacBook Pro through Airport Extreme. I am using a dynamic domain server, (No-IP), and port forwarding in the Airport Extreme. (This is a brand new Airport Extreme.) Wi-fi and un-encrypted external connections work fine.
A non-secure, (un-encrypted) connection works fine but if I encrypt iTeleport, it fails to connect at all.
There was no problem with a prior router but when I replaced it with Airport Extreme it ceased working.
The iTeleport tech support has nothing left to try and Apple tech support cannot discuss it.
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I hate to trash the Airport extreme but I am out of ideas.
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Jack,
I'm one of the co-founders of iTeleport. What's your ticket number? I'd like to try and see if there's something the team may have missed. Email us at feedback at iteleportmobile dot com and we can take it from there.
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J

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I know the old APs you could not setup with a PC...can you with the new Airport Extremes? My wifes office is looking at routers and I am pushing this one but they are worried if her Mac is not in the office they would have no way of changing settings etc.
So are they out of luck or is there some official (or hacky?) way of setting up and/or changing the new AP Extreme with windows?
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I know the old APs you could not setup with a PC...
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...can you with the new Airport Extremes?
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After hours of trying everything else, this worked!!!
From: Comcast Networking/Router/Wifi Gateway:
Re: Airport Extreme IP Address Issue
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MyComputerGuyJo:
I just wanted to add what Apple Support walked me through. Worked perfectly. Similar to some of the posts here. This assumes you have finished the setup of the Airport using DHCP to obtain the IP automatically from Comcast and it says the IP is invalid.
Power off\on Sequence
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2. Power off Airport Extreme
3. Let both sit for 3 minutes.
4. Reconnect coax cable to Comcast modem and replace battery and power up.
5. Wait a minute or two to make sure the Comcast modem is completely up and then Power on the Airport Extreme.
(When AP asks for DNS, Type in both addresses below)
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Freyfisher: I had the same problem whenn I switched to the Airport Extreme yesterday. Here is what I did:
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Hi all,
Just had this nagging problem for a couple of days. I can connect and see my aebs in airport utility but can't connect it to network in the airport menu. The network is fine and is working on my macbook, but the macbook pro can't see it. Both laptops are using 10.5.4 any suggestions?
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Hello paisleymum. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
You shouldn't have had to reconfigure the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) just because you have a new MacBook. Was there a particular reason that you needed to?

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On your Apple machine open the Airport Utility found in Applications/Utilities.
Go to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click on Base Station.
Toggle down to Manual Set Up.
When open select Airport and click on Wireless.
Go to Channel, which in my case had defaulted to Automatic and instead change it to say 1.
Click on Update.
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