Can't get two powerbooks to connect at same time

Our Airport Snow base station is connected to our ComCast cable modem. My roommate and I cannot both get IP addresses on our powerbooks (both running 10.4.10) at the same time. If I turn off my airport then she gets an IP address and can connect. If i then turn mine on the I get a self-assigned IP address and can not connect. Conversely if she turns her airport off then I can get an IP address but she subsuquently can not. Seems the Airport base station is stingy with IP addresses. ComCast tech support is no help.
BTW- the base station is not recognized by either powerbook with the airport admin utility.
We are newbies to wireless and hope some can understand my question enough to help.

I hope that someone in tech support answers this one...
As you know from reading the "Help & Terms of Use", this is a user to user discussion area and there is no guarantee that anyone from Apple will ever read this. If you want to provide feedback to Apple, use the form at http://www.apple.com/feedback/airportextreme.html
I am afraid this might have something to do with Apple trying to phase out the graphite base station...
Since that base station was discontinued in November 2001 I think you are probably correct.

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