Set AiportExtreme Base Station LAN Connection to 10base/T ?

Is there any way to force the Airport Extreme Base Station LAN connection to 10baseT/UTP half duplex ?

I had LinkSys PAP2 phone adaptor for Vonage that was connected to my AEBS. It died and I got a replacement but new PAP2 would never work. I think when the original PAP2 died it did something to the AEBS LAN port. The PAP2 does work connected to my iMac ethernet. If I connect my AEBS LAN to my iMac it does not work but I found that if I change the iMac ethernet port to 10baseT it works. It's like the AEBS LAN port now only works reliably connected to a 10baseT connection. So, instead of buying a new PAP2 I wanted to connected the PAP2 to the AEBS with the AEBS set to 10baseT.

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Airport Extreme Base Station Internet Connection issue

I have a connection question for Airport Extreme Base Station.
I have Comcast cable broadband. I connect that to a Linksys router for
use with my Vonage phone, and then from the Linksys router I connect
via Ethernet to my iMac. I like the direct Ethernet connection for
performance reasons.
In order to set up a home network to connect my Tivo's (and eventually
my PC and printer), I have set up an Airport Extreme Base station and
connected it to the Linksys router from it's ethernet connection to the
WAN (cable modem) input on the Extreme.
I have connected to the Airport network with my iMac, but since I am
connected to the Internet via Ethernet, I cannot tell if my Airport is
connected to the Internet so that I can use it for my Tivo. My PC is
still in storage from a move, so I can't check with that.
My question: How can I tell if my Airport is connected to the Internet
without disabling my Ethernet connection on my iMac?
A few more info points/questions in case it helps answer:
1) I previously used this Airport to connect this iMac wirelessly.
2) Should I be connecting it to the LAN port since it's coming out of
the router?
3) If the connection issue is because I am going through the Linksys
first, can I connect the modem to the airport and then use the LAN port
to connect to the Linksys router?
4) If I have to disable the ethernet connection to test the Airport,
how do I do it? Just unplug it?
I appreciate any help as the online and manual help from Apple is not
quite up to par with such a complex configuration.
Regards
Bill

2) Should I be connecting it to the LAN port since it's coming out of
the router?
No, connecting to the WAN port is fine.
3) If the connection issue is because I am going through the Linksys
first, can I connect the modem to the airport and then use the LAN port
to connect to the Linksys router?
The issue is that you have two routers which effectively creates two networks. Unless this was your original intent, you will want to setup the AEBS as a bridge.
To set up the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a bridge, using the AirPort Admin Utility, connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the LAN port of the AEBS, and then, make these settings:
Network tab
- Distribute IP addresses (unchecked)
- Apply the new settings.
- Wait at least 5 minutes.
4) If I have to disable the ethernet connection to test the Airport,
how do I do it? Just unplug it?
Well, that's certainly one way, but an easier way is to temporarily disable the "Built-in Ethernet" in your network configuration.
System Preferences > Network > Show > Network Port Configurations
- Built-in Ethernet (unchecked)

Can I set which base station a device communicates to on an extended Airplay network?

Can I set which base station a device communicates to on an extended Airplay network?

No, unless you connect to the device using a wired Ethernet connection.

Unable to set up base station as wireless client

I have a network with one Airport Extreme (UFO-shape) and three Airport Express base stations. Now I had to do a hard reset of all the base stations, and want to use Airport utility to set up the network again.
I have no problems setting up the Airport extreme as the main base station, and the first Airport express as a remote base station (extending the network). I want to set up the other two Airport Express stations as wireless clients (I only use them for iTunes via Airtunes).
My problem is that when I reach the point where I can choose between setting them up to either extend the network or as a wireless client, I am not able to proceed if I choose the latter (nothing happens when I press "continue"). I can only go through the setup process if I choose the Airport Express to be an extension of the network (a remote base station).
For one of the Airport express, I then later manually changed the setup from "be a part of a WDS network" to "connect to a wireless network". But when I try this for the last Airport Express, I am no longer able to contact the base station if I try to do the same. I have chosen channel 11 for the network, and I think in some way or another, after I manually change the settings for the last Airport express, it switches to another channel. After this I can no longer read the base station configuration or connect to it via airtunes.
When I do a hard reset again, and go through the process once more, everything is OK as long as I keep it as a remote base station. But I really would like it to be connected as a wireless client
Any ideas?

The basic wiring setup would include connecting an Ethernet cable from one of the available LAN <-> Ethernet ports to the WAN "O" port on the Time Capsule.
You can run an Ethernet cable up to 100 meters or 300+ feet so the trick will be locate the Time Capsule in the middle of the area where you need more wireless signal coverage.
To have the Time Capsule "extend" the wireless from the gateway, you would need to configure it to create a new wireless network using the same wireless network name, same wireless security setting and same password as the gateway's wireless network.
The final configuration step would be to make sure that the Time Capsule is setup to operate in Bridge Mode, so that it will function as a client for the gateway router.
The specifics of how to do this will depend on the version of AirPort Utility that you are using on your Mac. Post back if you need more details on this.

Toshiba 4015 , Linksys wpc11 , Extreme Base Station cannot connect! Help

I have one IP address coming into a wired router(linksys bsr41), The router has two good ports. I go directly from one port to a homemade pc and to the airport extreme base station with the second. I have a mac mini wired to the port on the base station. I use imac g5 wirelessly with no problems.
I am trying to set up a Toshiba 4015 CDS to use wirelessly on my deck and I am having a lot of trouble. The Toshiba is upgraded to win 2000 and has 160 meg Ram. I am attempting to connect to the base station with a link sys wpc 11 wireless - b card. I have tried to change numerous setting on the base station but with no luck. I have power to the card but no link. I have used the linksys utility and it can't see the aebs and have tried a 3rd party utility recommended by linksys(freescape????) but it cannot see the base station either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I connect through dsl. Thanks, Mike

When I connect cable to the lan port , I cannot connect with dhcp or with dhcp disabled.
I tried both... restarting aebs and imac wireless and could not connect. When I disable dhcp I am forced to enter manual settings and I am not sure I have correct Ip address since it is behind my router. My internet provider said my base station would have to be behind the router because of a cloned ip address. I am not quite sure what that means. Thanks again for the help.....I have a xmas party to go to but will try further recommendations when I get home.

In a WDS, how can I force a satellite base station to connect directly to the main station

I have 2 Airports Extremes (Call them A and B) and a Time Capsule set up in a WDS. All are recent vintage at V 7.6.1 firmware. Airport A is the main base station connected to the internet via ethernet to a cable modem. The satellites, Airport B and the Time Capsule, are in opposite corners of the house. Airport A is in a media closet in the middle of the downstairs, Airport A is on the east end of the house, about 40 ft away, with a wood door and drywall wall in between. The Time Capsule is on the west side of the house, with just the floor/ceiling in between it and Airport A.
When the WDS is functioning normally (most of the time), both satellites connect directly to the main station, and Airport Utility describes each connection as Excellent. But at least once a day, one of the satellites will connect to the other satellite, not directly to the main station. When this happens, Airport Utility describes the connection as Good or Average and my online throughput decreases by about 5 fold in both directions. The only thing that works every time to get it back to it's proper setup is restarting all three, which is really a pain.
Is there any way to force the satellites to connect directly to the main station?

So is it possible to connect a non-USB Mac to an
Aiport network through the ethernet port in any way?
Yes
Using something like the Linksys Ethernet Wireless Bridge WET54G.
Original Airport Card Alternatives
http://tech.ifelix.net/1030.html

Airport Extreme Base station cannot connect to Westell C90-36R516-01 DSL modem

Hi,
I just purchased a new Airport Extreme Base station for my 15" Macbook Pro. I set everything up this morning per the docs (all cables are connected properly) but the Airport Extreme is flashing an amber LED, which means it cannot establish communication to the network/Internet.
I'm using an old Westell C90-36R516-01 DSL modem that has been working fine up until now. I've tried switching out the Ethernet cables and different powering on/off combos but nothing appears to work. When I connect the Ethernet cable directly into my laptop, I have to power down the DSL modem, power it back on, and then do several refreshes before I finally get an Internet connection.
I read a previous post about unplugging the modem overnight and then plugging it in the next morning to wipe out the MAC address setting. I will be trying that tonight, but I was wondering if there was anything else I could try in the meantime? Or, is it simply a matter of having to get a newer modem from Verizon because this one is 7-8 years old?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Max,
Let's start from the beginning,
The ethernet from the modem should be wired to the Wan port of the Airport...
On page 28 of the users manual it says if the light flashes amber you should unplug the power of the modem, wait a few seconds and power up the modem.
I presume you installed the Airport utility from the disk that came with the Airport?
For more information about the reason the light flashes
Open AirPort Utility, select your base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu. ClickBase Station Status to display information about the flashing light
Here is a link to the Manual CLICK HERE
I was hoping to find out more about the Airport utility to see what's it's capable of doing...

Airport Base Station - setting up base station to already existing network

Hello,
I just replaced a network switch on the network. Since I did that I am unable to get Internet connection from our main base station in the server room that distributes the IP addresses. I did a reset to the base station and tried to get it to show on the already existing network, but I'm having some issues getting the base station configured with the other base stations on the network. How do I get this main base station to show up on our network?
Right now our other base stations are not getting valid IP addresses. The base station that is setup to distribute IP addresses is getting valid addresses from our provider. If someone could give me any suggestions I would appreciate it.
We are running Apple 10.2.4 on our network.

OK - starts to make sense now. If you did a factory reset of the base station then more than likely the airport network name for it is the Apple default name, and you probably lost the WDS in Wireless Mode.
Do you know the old network name and the network password? Do you know how the other 4 or 5 base stations were configured - ie as a WDS network and whether as relay or remote base stations. You should not need to change anything on these base stations if you know how your AEB (main) was setup in the first place.
One step back from this, you need to confirm that the DSL modem is connecting to your ISP. Connect the ethernet cable from the DSL modem to your Mac and confirm that you can log onto your ISP or internet. If it works then lets go onto the AEB you reset.
Apple publish setup manuals for their AirPort Base Stations - they can be downloaded at: http://support.apple.com/manuals/#airport
1. Reset your AEB to its factory default again.
2. Turn-off the AEB and connect one of its ethernet ports to your Mac by ethernet cable, and connect the DSL modem to the WAN port on the AEB by ethernet cable.
3. Power up your Mac, the DSL modem and the AEB and wait for all to complete their startup sequence. Then open AirPort Utility - you should see your AEB under a generic network name. Click on the AEB.
4. Use the auto setup procedure by clicking 'Continue'. Follow the onscreen instructions for setting up a new network. When asked, use the 'original network name' for your school network. When asked for a network password, use the 'original network password' for your school network (what sort of network security were you using - WPA2 Personal - use whatever you had previously.
5. At some stage you will also be asked to give the AEB a name and admin password - use whatever they were previously.
6. When the setup procedure is complete and the AEB finishes restarting, the AEB will reappear in AirPort Utility. Click on the AEB and click 'Manual Setup'. You may be asked for the admin password to get into the configuration profile.
7. Click on the 'Wireless' tab and set the 'Wireless Mode:' to 'Participate in a WDS network' if not already set to this. While in this pane, look at 'Channel:' - do you remember what this was set to previously (if not, you may need to connect one of the other AEBs by ethernet cable to a Mac and use AirPort Utility to check the Channel setting.
8. Now, click on the 'Internet' icon at the top of AirPort Utility. Check that 'Connection Sharing:' is set to 'Off (Bridge Mode)' - if not, change it.
9. Now, click 'Update' and wait for the AEB to restart.
10. Now, disconnect the ethernet cable from the Mac to the AEB ethernet port.
11. Open Airport Utility, and hopefully, you can now see the AEB and the other 4 or 5 base stations.
Let us know what happens.

AE Base Station wired connection problem..

Okay..
I have cable internet hooked up like so:
Modem --> Airport Extreme Basestation extended by 2 AE expresses...
I use the LAN port on the AE basestation to route internet to the hardwired computer.. This has worked well until recently... I recently recieved a new cable modem that work fine when the desktop comp is hooked directly to it. When I try hooking it up to the base station this is what happens:
the airport signal will be great.. all wifi users can surf and connect to the network. The wired computer will work for about 30 mins or so then will stop recieving signal. The only way to get it to regain internet is to reset the cable modem... The wifi users Never lose signal or internet.
is my ae basestation going bad? If i dasiey chain a normal router between the modem and the basestation, there is no problem and everyone gets internet just fine.. would prefer not to have it there though.
Any ideas?

I doubt your base station is going bad - since internet access works perfectly with another router between the cable modem and your main base station. I suggest you leave it that way. There is no downside to that type of setup, and it could save you a lot of trouble trying to find out why a direct connection doesn't work reliably. There just seem to be some combinations of ISPs and cable modems that don't work well with the Airport Base Station.

HT4260 Does this setup assume each additional base station remains connected to the primary by ethernet?

I have 1 x Time Capsule + 1 x Extreme + 3 x Express which I would like to connect in a roaming network. The TC is connected to the internet directly through ethernet (my house is ethernet wired). The remaining base stations should all connect to the same network created by the primary base Time Capsule (same name and password), but not wired back to the Time Capsukle but through the ethernet ports in each room. However I can't get this to work.
Any suggestions as maybe I am missing something here?
Thanks P

For a roaming network to work, all of the base stations need to be connected back to the Time Capsule (in this case) by Ethernet. So, one configuration would be to connect an Ethernet drop cable between the LAN port on the TC and an Ethernet switch or switch panel. From there Ethernet would run to various locations in the house. At any of these runs, you would connect a base station ... so that all base stations are on the same subnet as the TC.
The key is that the primary router must be connected to the Internet modem and all other routers reconfigured as bridges. Please check out the following Apple Support article for additional details on configuring a roaming network.

Can't set-up base station

I have a new mac mini and Powerbook G4. I plugged in Airport Graphite and tried to set up. Both computers recognize network, but cannot get to internet or see eachother. I went through Airport set-up and it recognizes network, but when I try to configure I get an error message saying it does not see base station. Tried resetting, swearing and thumping it. Any other suggestions?

After establishing a wireless network connection, you need to manually configure the device with the Airport Admin Utility. The Airport Setup Assistant provided with MacOS 10.4 doesn't work with this old base station.

Airport base station and connectivity problems

Hi all,
Heres what I know about my internet connectivity issues. I have a cable broadband (Motorola Surfboard) modem and I'm fine getting a connection when I am hooked directly from the modem into the back of my G4.
The wierd thing is that when I have my Airport (old school flying saucer shaped one) hooked up between my G4 and the modem I don't even get a signal on my tower any longer let alone my laptop. I have an ethernet cable running from the port on the base station with the circle of dots to my modem. I have a ethernet cable running from the ethernet looking port (arrows and dots) on the base station to the G4 tower.
What I don't get is why I wouldn't at least be still getting a signal to my tower? All of the appropriate lights on my modem are still lit up. I took it in a few days ago to an Apple store and the guy at the Genius Bar confirmed the Base Station is working fine. Why does my computer now not like being hooked up thru my base station? I've checked all of the network settings and all seems to be fine.
Any help or ideas will be appreciated. This is driving me nuts.
Thanks,
Vance

I may have misunderstood your original question. If you want to use both your older Airport as well as the newer dual band one, you certainly can, but first describe which model your older Airport is and what specifically you wish to accomplish by using both.
There's no advantage of keeping the older one in service unless one Airport base station is unable to create a wireless network with sufficient range for your needs. There are as many as three different ways of doing that depending on which older one you have: a Wireless Distribution System (WDS) which can only use 802.11b/g, an "extended" network, which can only be accomplished with an 802.11n network, or a "roaming" network in which the Airports are connected to each other using their Ethernet LAN ports. This last method is the most preferable, but obviously requires that you run a cable between them.
Use Airport Utility to configure the Extreme. Read about designing networks in the Apple AirPort Networks manual.
In any event you don't need to use both Airport base stations if all you want to do is have a wireless network that can serve both your iMac and your Powerbook. Any Airport base station Apple ever built can serve both. The newest Extreme just adds more features.

Using AirPort Extreme Base Station to Connect a Hard Drive

I have a wireless network set up using a wireless device provided by my network provider. What I would like to do is to use my Airport Extreme Base station only to connect a hard drive to it. However when doing so, Airport Utility does not recognize or see the Extreme. The Extreme can only been seen if connected to the router provided by my network provider. How can I set up a wireless hard drive or printer with the Extreme without connecting to the network?

Samir, why you wanna use service provider wireless instrument when you have world class wireless device
you don't need 2 wireless ???
I am not expert but I used common sense, I had linksys N series router but recently I bought TC 1TB
so what I dumped my N router in store and went ahead with TC installation, Trust me it took me 10 minutes to configure my 4 HDD 5 computer printer etc with TC
I am sure you have a ethernet modem too separate from your wireless instrument
try to do a clean installation ( thats where all these people who has problem, trying to connect to their existing network
try setting up your AEBS as fresh wireless device connect to your modem and run Airport Utility
I am sure you will be a happy apple customer
good luck

Airport Express - Extreme Base Station - MacBook Connection PLEASE HELP!

Ok, i thought i had a pretty good idea of what i was doing with my mac stuff but apparently not, can someone talk me through how to set up the following - i've google and searched forums far and wide and cannot seem to find a simple walk through guide, even read the manual. The Airport Express manual online still says you can only stream to one device at a time.
I have an Airport Extreme Base Station broadcasting a DSL connection from a router - works a treat. I also have 1TB WD Hard Drive plugged into the Base Station which works as a shared AirDisk - also works a treat. I have two stereos at each end of the house and got my hands on two Airport Express devices (Models: A1084 and A1088).
I've gone through every possible scenario in setting these up to join the network but once they're 'joined' there no sign of them, and they no longer show up in my Airport Utility so can no longer configure them, thus having to reset them and start again.
I've tried a) setting up a WDS network, the base station as the main and the express' units as remote. No show in iTunes and no real show of being on the network at all; and b) tried leaving the existing network as is and joining the express' to that, again, they supposedly 'join' (i assume, only because they no longer show up as their own network) but do not show up in iTunes. As far as I've tested and found, I have the latest of all versions of software / firmware available, including Leopard, iTunes and Airport Utility... HELP! It's driving me MAD! And a thousand thank you's in advance...

Thanks for your help, after trouble shooting to no end, I've discovered it has something to do with the WEP password I was using and after reading through many a support article I found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2098?viewlocale=en_US - however, the $ sign doesn't seem to work to when setting up the Express' (even tried making the password the very one used in that article) and when I set the network up initially, it seemed my flatmates PC's only joined the network if I used a WEP password, rather than a WPA that i'd rather use.
Any suggestions here? Do I have to use a WEP password to let Windows join?

Extreme Base Station Loses Connection When Slept

To improve overall system security, I recently changed my account from an Administrator to a Standard Account, and created a separate Administrator's Account. Now whenever I or another user start up from sleep mode, enter our standard user password, the airport connection is lost and an admin password is required to get it going again.
Is there any way to ensure that the connectivity is not lost when sleeping, or it is automatically reconnected when awoken from sleep, without the use of an Administrator's password?
2GHz dual G5, ATI X800 XT, 2 X 500Gb HD, LaCie D2 1Tb, 3.5Gb RAM , 23" HD Panel Mac OS X (10.4.9) Airport Extreme 802.11 (n) / 802.11 (g) on on G5 Mac Pro

djeddy, Welcome to the discussion area!
When switching the cable modem's Ethernet connection from the MacBook to the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS), you should power off the cable modem for a minute or two (often longer).

Set AiportExtreme Base Station LAN Connection to 10base/T ?

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