Random Questions about Airport Extreme Card

I have an early 2006 iMac with the built in Airport Extreme card, and so far I've managed to use it to share my ethernet internet connection with my Nintendo DS, Wii, PS3, Apple TV, etc.
But I have some random questions that I'm hoping some of you people can answer.
1. Does my Airport card support UPnP (or whatver the Mac equivelent is), and if so, how do I enable it?
2. With my old router I used to be able to type it's IP address into the address bar of my browser and access the settings for it. Anyway of doing this sort of thing to access the Airport's settings?
That's all I need to know really. Any help would be appreciated.
1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi
UPnP is handled by your router/modem.
You cant get access to the airport extreme card it has no settings to my knowledge(apart from network prefs).
Tony

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