Sending dial up connection to a wired base station?

Hi have a powerbook G4 Ti with airport card, an extreme base station and an emac with a dial up connection. I was wondering if anybody knows how I can route the dial up connection via ethernet to the base station so I can get the dial up connetion through airport to surf wirelessly on the powerbook. Any comments greatly appreciated. TIA

Presumably you don't want to do this the easy way, by using the dialup modem built into the Airport Extreme Base Station?
To use the dialup modem in the eMac is a bit convoluted. You need to do the following:
- set up internet connection sharing (in System Preferences->Sharing) on the eMac. See also:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh336.html
- you need to run the Airport Admin Utility from the Powerbook, and disable the router built into the Base Station by unchecking the box next to "Distribute IP addresses" found under the Network tab of that utility.
- you need to cable the Base Station's LAN (not WAN) port to the eMac's ethernet port
- and then every time you want to access the internet you must (a) first establish the dialup connection from the eMac and then (b) restart the Powerbook to force it to obtain a renewed IP address from the eMac.
It would also be much easier to just get rid of the Base Station, install an Airport card in the eMac, and use the eMac as a "software base station".

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Hello,
I have an Airport-based wifi network and it works great. The only problem is that all my devices connect to the main base station, instead of the one closest to them. This has created a problem because my house is large enough that I need the extra access points to extend my network. So when I go to another part of my house, away from the main base station, the connection gets slow. This is also a problem for my Apple TV. It is closer to my Airport Time Capsule, but still tries to get its signal from the main AirPort Extreme, making screen mirroring slow when playing a video. Right now I have 1 Airport Time Capsule, 2 Airport Extremes, and 1 Airport Express.

My Airport Time Capsule is extending from my Airport Express.
This is not possible.
The way apple extend works is a hub and spokes type of system. You cannot double extend. It is possible however to do a complex system with the express as a wireless bridge and ethernet connect that to the the Time Capsule. If you do such things.. slowness is a guaranteed part of the package.
Even double hop wireless will slow things down dramatically.. and for streaming video by airplay mirror is to be avoided. You need to use more ethernet or some hard wired alternative like EOP (homeplug) adapters.
The symptoms you described there are kind of the problem. This is especially a problem for the Apple TV. It makes screen mirroring very slow. I will try some of the diagnostic programs and see what I can find. Also, what difference would what channel they're on make?
I don't understand why the Apple TV is roaming.. surely you have it fixed in one place and plugged into a TV. The problem is not the ATV it is the other end device that you are streaming from.. if you are moving that around the house then that is wrong way to do things.
For screen mirror which is highly data intensive.. and often has issues with speed even up close.. you need both devices running 5ghz wireless in the same room with each other.. and you should setup wireless so that no extend can happen in this scenario.. it will simply not work over extended wireless. It barely will work over wireless at all. In fact you should look at either plugging in the ATV or plug in the device you are mirroring by ethernet.
Channels matter because they interfere with each other if too close.. or the neighbour uses it. Or you have a cordless phone or an AV sender or security front door TV system or a baby monitor or a zillion other things which all use the free 2.4ghz band.

Can Time Machine backup USB Drive connected to Airport Extreme Base Station

I need a new N based wireless router. I would prefer to get just the $179 Base Station and not the $299 Time Capsule. I already have a nice external USB 500GB drive that I would connect to the AEBS. So, once I have this new wireless router/base station installed at home and I have the external USB drive connected to it, can my new Macbook Air with a USB connected 400GB drive be used to backup what is on the Macbook Air and also backup the 500GB USB drive info that is connected to the extreme base station?
Thanks
tj

I found this when searching Apple's web site but it is old, October 2007, and said it could not be done. Has this changed since then?
Here is what I found.
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Disks
* Last Modified on: October 26, 2007
* Article: 306833
Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can be used to back up to many kinds of Mac OS Extended-formatted drives, but it does not support AirPort Extreme's AirPort Disk feature.
Time Machine can back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, or to a Leopard Server volume, or an Xsan storage device.

Can one apple base be connected to another apple base station with ethernet?

Can one apple base be connected to another apple base station with ethernet?

Yes, it would be called a roaming network.
See the Roaming network here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4260

I lost my connection with my AirPort Base Station when I upgraded to the OS Maverick. How can I get my system to recognize the base station again?

I lost my connection with my AirPort Base Station when I upgraded to the OS Maverick. I can still see the Internet, but the Time Machine cannot backup now because it cannot locate the AirPort base station. How can I resolve this issue?
Steps already taken with zero success:
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2. Restarted the Mac Pro multiple times.
3. Looked online for AirPort update for 6.3.2 version.
Other Apple products in my house can still see the AirPort Base Station, however my Mac Pro and Mac Book Pro cannot.
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That information helps. If you want to use one of the SmartStor's disks as a repository for sharing your iTunes Library, then do not configure that disk as a RAID. Format it with Disk Utility using the Erase tab. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is the correct choice.
Connect it to your Time Capsule, then use AirPort Utility to configure access requirements for sharing it on your network. It should appear as a shared volume in the Finder, available to all your Macs as you thought it should.
I also thought maybe the extra HD space would be added to the existing Airport Disk. It isn't.
Correct. There is no way to do that. The only way to increase the capacity of a Time Capsule's hard disk is to replace the Time Capsule (or its disk, if you are amenable to disassembling it) with a larger capacity model.
If you also want to use the SmartStor as a RAID, that is another story, and you should probably attack that problem separately.

HT4260 Can i control which wireless clients i like to betrol which wireless clients i like to be connected on my airport base station?

Can i control which wireless clients i like to betrol which wireless clients i like to be connected on my airport base station?

Yes. Use AirPort Utility's MAC Address Access Control.
AirPort Utility > select your base station > Edit button > Network tab > "Enable Access Control" > click the Timed Access Control button.
You need to specify the clients you want to control by their MAC address, which is usually printed on the device's exterior case.

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Can the airport express base station be wirelessly connected to the DCL modem?

Alan1111 wrote:
Can the airport express base station be wirelessly connected to the DCL modem?
Alan,
Please provide more information. (Make/model of the modem and airport express, Mac OS version, etc.)
Most likely your modem is the source of your internet connect and you sound like you are trying to extend your network through the airport express (which is a router).
I don't know what a "DCL modem" is. Perhaps you meant "DSL".
Most internet modems are either a "Cable Modem" or a "DSL Modem".
Time Warner (TMC) and Comcast typically provide cable modems, which use a coaxial (round) cable.
"DSL Modems" are used with AT&T and they are connected to your telephone wires.
Both of these types of modems usually includes a router built-in, some include a wireless router, too.
Either way, I don't know of any way to connect an Airport base station to a router wirelessly.
That would be called a "bridge" in networking terms and while it may be possible, it is not common.
Most routers use a direct ethernet cable connection, because the data flows much faster than wirelessly.
Normally, one connects to their airport base station with an ethernet cable from the primary home/office computer.
It can be accessed wirelessly, but only if you enable that option in the Airport utility (not the default).
Again, connecting or bridging one router to another router is not a common method.

Cant connect mac to express base station.

I got my pc to connect to my express base station first time without any bother, but for some reason the mac wont even see it? i am currently using the internet through the base station on the pc, but all the mac can find when i scan is the netgear router the base station is connected to via ethernet.

Just to clarify. Do you have two wireless networks available, one with netgear and on with the AX?
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My internet works fine with my wired cable modem, but when i connect to my extreme base station and setup my wireless network the internet no longer works and my apple tv by default

my cable modem works fine, but when I hook it up to my extreme base station and run through the prompts and set up my wireless network it doesnt work and neither does my apple tv by default. I am unsure how to correct this problem. It will come up saying that I dont have an IP address when I have it set to DCHP so I dont know what the problem is.

Push the reset button on the modem and power the modem off
Power off everything else....all devices....order is not important
Wait 15-20 minutes or longer
Connect the Ethernet cable from the modem to the WAN port (circle of dots icon) on the AirPort Extreme
Power up the modem and let it run for 5 minutes by itself
Power up the AirPort Extreme and let it run for 5 minutes
Power up each other device one at a time a few minutes apart
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How do I find a hard drive connected to Airport Extreme Base Station?

*Apple Says:* "If your base station supports it, you can connect a USB hard disk to the USB port on your base station and computers on your network (both wired and wireless) can connect to it to access, share, and store files and data."
Cool. So I followed the instructions. The drive is recognized by the base station and listed in the Airport Utility. It looks like it's ready to go...
So... How do I access the drive? I don't see it on my desktop, it's not under network. I've tried "Connect to server..." and browsing, I can't see the drive, anywhere. Yeah, I've searched the crap out of this issue on google and this message board as well as apple support knowledge base. I'm sure this is a simple issue and I'm just missing the obvious. Help me out.

Hello Timothy Uhl. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Try the following to mount the disk...
o Click on the Desktop to enter Finder
o Go > Connect to Server...
o Enter 10.0.1.1 for the server
o Enter Disk Password
o Connect
If this still doesn't solve the problem, let's double-check your disk sharing settings...
AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) - File Sharing Setup
Either connect to the AEBSn's wireless network or temporarily connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to one of the LAN ports of the AEBSn, and then, using the AirPort Utility in Manual Mode, check these settings:
Disks - File Sharing
o Secure Shared Disks: <With disk password | With base station password | With accounts >
(Note: Choose "With a disk password," or "With base station password" if you want to secure the shared disk with a password, or choose "With accounts" if you want to secure the disk using accounts.
If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add "+" button, and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.)
o Guest Access: <Not allowed | Read only | Read and write>
o Share disks over Ethernet WAN port: (unchecked)
(Note: Select the "Share disks over Ethernet WAN port" checkbox if you want to provide remote access to the disk over the WAN port.)
o Advertise disks globally using Bonjour: (unchecked)
o Workgroup: <Windows workgroup name>
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Sharing airport network connection to an airport base station over ethernet

Hi there,
I've got a network connection to the internet via Airport, on my iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.9.
This iBook is connected to the LAN port on an Airport Express base station (for physical wiring reasons, it cannot be connected to the WAN port).
This Airport Express has a dozen other computers attached to it.
Does anyone know how I might be able to share my internet connection, via the LAN side of the Airport Express, to all these other computers?
Incidentally, when I turn on both the Ethernet LAN connection and the Airport internet connection, I stop being able to communicate over the internet connection. When I disable the LAN, the internet connection returns.
Thanks,
Brian

It turns out that in
System Preferences->Network->Show: Network Port Configurations
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I have a new Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) that my iMac is wirelessly connected too. I cannot connect my HP wireless printer to the AEBS. The printer recognizes the SSID and WEP password, but does not have a connection & does not print.
I also, cannot connect a Netgear Wireless Bridge for (xBox) to the AEBS. The xBox does not see the SSID at all. What do I do??? I purchased the AEBS because the salesman said it would be the easiest wireless network ever, but I only have problems ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Very likely a WEP issue.
If you turn off WEP can you now connect and print?
One of the problems with WEP is that the actual standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
In order to make things easier for people, vendors use certain algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords (or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling people to use simple memorable WEP password rather than lengthy HEX keys.
The problem is that different vendors use different algorithms to generate the HEX key and therefore a ASCII password on an AEBS will be hashed differently on a Netgear client and vice versa.
One thing is a 13 character 128 bit WEP password will be hashed by all vendors in the same way (if you use 40bit WEP then a 5 character password is required).
Though sometimes not even that works and the HEX key must be used regardless.
AirPort: Joining an encrypted wireless network
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
Choosing a password for networks that use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
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