Going from airport to airport extreme?

I am about to move to extreme from white airport, i have 10.3 - is there any tricks or doc that can help me? I have comcast, and 3 computers - one imac on the ethernet.

Thanks for the doc, what I was looking for was any ones advice that has switched from a Whire airport to a Airport extreme - I tried to just unplug one and plug the other in and even the direct cable ethernet imac computer did not work any longer, I was wondering if there is anything that I needed to do to get the extreme set up - I used the airport admin setup . Is there a step by step to go from one to the other?

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    To those Apple reps who may be reading this, please get your **** together on this and fix it once and for all (or at least make **** sure it is fixed in Leopard). The Macbook is perhaps your most important core product at this point.

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    Robert

    Almigurt wrote:
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    That's kinda the point -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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  • PC not able to print from Airport Extreme (N)

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