Help Accessing Airport Extreme Remotely?

I have an Airport extreme base station at home and want to be able to login and admin the router from remote locations. I have logged into the router and set the checkbox for WAN access but this doesn’t seem to help.
All other routers I have owned you are able to login to them from your WAN IP address and then play with the setting s. When I launch the airport utility from outside my home it doesn’t find the base station, same with iOS app. What am I doing wrong, or is this even possible with the AE?
Cheers

Which router are you asking about?
If you have an Apple AirPort router, settings are accessed by opening the AirPort Utility application.
Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click the AirPort icon, then click Edit to access the settings

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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
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The addresses that are used "inside of your network" are private ip addresses. If you are using the (1) public address for your router (APE)(Apple airport extreme) from the ISP what you are trying to do will not work very well since your router (APE) will use the Public IP address to provide access to the public internet for your private network using the private ip addresses you have used to create your subnet and told your router (APE) about. Three private IP address schemes can be used for a private internet. One for each class. Class A 10.x.x.x/8, Class B 172.16.0.0/12 and Class C 192.168.0.0/24. Translated using dynamic NAT (network address translation with overload) making your LAN hosts using private IP addresses to seem as if they are using a public ip address allowing access to the public internet where only public ip addresses can be used.
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Tesserax,
Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. I don't have a MobileMe account, however I did setup iCloud. I know I can remotely configure my Airport Extreme using the standard desktop Airport Utility (I have a dyndns dynamic address setup). However, I was really hoping to do at least SOME remote router configuration with my phone. I guess I can't =\
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Yeah, Duane posted the link to the good directions. The directions given in the printed manual for the base station and the online help for the base station is inadequate when it comes to WDS set up.
I have an Airport Extreme and two Airport Express. When I was setting up WDS, it did take a while because certain errors did keep coming up. But eventually it worked. I now get the hang of it.
One difference that kept me really confused but now I understand is the difference between relay and remote base station.
Picture these two diagrams
A) Airport Extreme <--> Express1 <--> Express2
B) Airport Extreme <--> Express2
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In picture (A), the Extreme is broadcasting to Express1 which then relays the signal to Express2. In this case, Express1 is a relay base station and Express2 is a remote base station.
In picture (B), the Extreme is broadcasting to Express2. In this case, the Express2 is also a remote base station and not a relay. There is not relay base station in (B).
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I've been using a USB connected disk drive on my AirPort Extreme from my Android tablet for years. Since upgrading the AirPort to version 7.6.4 I can no longer access the disk drive from the tablet. I have not changed anything on the tablet, only the AirPort.
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