Turning iMac G4 into AirPort base

I have a 15" G4 iMac with a 800mhz processor. I just bought my daughter a 14" iBook that has an AirPort card. I've heard that I can install an AirPort card into my iMac and send my internet connection wirelessly to the iBook basically using the iMac as an AirPort base. Is this true and if so, what card to I have to have and does it matter that I'm on a dial-up connection (not by choice).

A dial-up connection should work just fine. The secret is to go into the Sharing System Preference pane and turn on Internet Sharing. There are two options:
1. Put an Airport card in the iMac and specify that you want to share your dial-up connection to computers using Airport. According to this page, your iMac uses the old non-Extreme Airport card. These can be hard to find and pricey if you can find one.
2. Get an Airport Express base station, connect it to the iMac's Ethernet port, and specify that you want to share your dial-up connection to computers using Ethernet. You'll have the additional step of setting up the Express as an Ethernet-to-wireless bridge. This will give you a faster wireless connection than the first option and may actually be cheaper than an Airport card.
Alternately, you could get an Airport Extreme base station. It has a built-in modem, so you could use it to dial into your ISP and connect the iMac to the Extreme's LAN port as well as connect the iBook wirelessly. The advantage to this approach is that it doesn't require the iMac to be turned on in order to access the Internet with the iBook.

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Hi, Some one hacked into my AirPort Base Station, which initially I had not secured with password. Now they took control by adding their own password. How can I regain ownership back?

Hi there,
I have an intruder into my AirPort Base Station wireless connection. The Station initially I did did not protect it with a Password, so the intruder branded it a name and put on a password. Is there any way I can deactivate the intruder's password and regain ownership?
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Some one hacked into my AirPort Base Station.....
No, they did not have to "hack" into your AirPort at all. Since the door to your wireless network was wide open, they simply walked right in.
Is there any way I can deactivate the intruder's password and regain ownership?
Hold the reset button on the back of the AirPort in for 9-10 seconds, and then release. Allow a full minute tor the AirPort to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
The AirPort is back to new, out of the box settings. You can can now reconfigure it again......hopefully this time with a password.

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Open the Network pane in System Preferences. If there's a closed padlock icon in the lower left corner, click it and enter your administrator login password when prompted.
At the bottom of the service list on the left is a popup menu with a gear icon. From that menu, select
Set Service Order...
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Imac as airport base station?

i have been told it is possible to use the latest generations of imac as a wireless base station instead of having to go out and buy a extra wireless router, is this true and if so how can i do it?
thanks

1. In Sys Prefs/Sharing highlight Internet Sharing (do not check the box)
2. Share your connection from: Ethernet (from the dropdown menu)
3. To computers using: AirPort (check the little box)
4. Press the button AirPort Options...
5. Name your Network
6. I use Automatic for the channel
7. I encrypt my network using a 40-bit WEP key
8. For a non-Apple device you must use;
a. only a 5 alphanumeric character, 40-bit WEP password or
b. only a 13 alphanumeric character 128-bit WEP password
9. Press OK
10. Check the box for Internet Sharing
11. Answer any dialog boxes that pop up
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Hi,
Im trying to work my Mac into a kludged WinXP network, improving it as well; the WinXPs see each other, and each has its own printer (the main one an HP1020, shared by both computers (hey, I said it was dumb). My Mac and XPs see each other just fine. I've no problem printing to the HP 1020 when connected via USB.
So, if I were to connect the Airport Base (through a switch) to my router, and the HP 1020 to the Airport Base, it is my understanding that I will still be able to get to that printer from my Mac. Question is, will I still be able to get to that printer from my ethernet-wired WinXP desktops? This seemed like a reasonable thing to accomplish before setting up an NAS. Of course, if another idea comes to mind, I would be most grateful.
Many thanks,
Dave
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Do that first, connect the printer to the PC and ensure it is installed and working.
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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.
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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.

Airport Base Cutting in and Out

My Airport base station has started cutting in and out and restarting it only sometimes works. Once returning to detectable signal, it may work for seconds, minutes or hours.
For four years, we have had a flat-screen iMac, an eMac and a network printer working without a hitch. Recently, We added a MacBook Pro, also without a glitch. Suddenly, in the past three days, the signal has frequently become undetectable, even at the iMac only 2 feet away.
Clearly, it does return to use, as I am using it now. Leaving it in use (e.g streaming a radio over internet) seems to keep it active, but I am not sure for how long.
I've tried it all: turn Airport on and off; unplug and re-start base station; unplug and re-start DSL modem; repair permissions; name it.
The unit seems to have spontaneous regeneration as it seems to work after sitting unused for a while (though I have to log back in, which I have not had to do in the past).
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yes, am experiencing a similar problem.
brand new iMAC intel, with firmware upgraded. 10.4.6
when I try to do a software upgrade, I can begin the download. it goes for about 2 mb or so, and then cuts out.
no signal, download is stopped...but a few seconds later the airport signal is back on at full strength.
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Adding password to old Airport Base Station.

I need to password protect the old Airport Base Station (dual ethernet). I have tried the support documents but it did not work. I have an express plugged in and my Airport Utility only sees that one. I have tried plugging the old base station into the iMac with an ethernet cable but then got stuck.
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Ok, the version you just downloaded should be compatible with both Tiger and Leopard. It's primary purpose is for administrating the old 802.11b AirPort Base Stations, both the Snow and the Graphite. The new AirPort Utility replaces both the AirPort Admin Utility and the AirPort Setup Assistant. So between the AirPort Utility and AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow, you should be able to administer any of the AirPorts.
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What does No configured airport base mean

I am desperatly trying to add a TC to my wireless system. I am using a iMac (2 yrs old). Everyting in house is wireless. My Mac Air, etc. We have uVerse so all I want TC to do is be used as a BU. I have plugged TC into power and amber light is blinking. I have downloaded Airport Utility 6.2 for a Mac. When I hit TC icon at top. a screen comes up shows green light for i nternet but the says "No configured airport base has been found". Why is this so difficult?

There is no TC icon on the top of the screen. There is a Time Machine icon.. they are entirely different. Time Machine (TM) is the backup software in your computer. It is not connected in any way to Time Capsule.
TC is Time Capsule.. it is a network device. You are not connected to it, because you haven't directly connected to it by ethernet.
If you want to connect to its wireless and setup over wireless .. not IMHO the best way but possible.. go to the airport symbol on the Mac.. Go to join other networks.. and locate the wireless from the TC and join it. At the present time it is joined to the uverse router.. you cannot see the TC because you have no connection to it.
Please follow the clear instructions I gave already in the other thread. Plug it in by ethernet is the way to do this.. in complete isolation to the rest of the network.

This AirPort base station was unable to extend the wireless network.

I have an AirPort Extreme in the lounge connected to BT infinity.
I also have an airport express in the kitchen connected to a stereo system.
I have had this set up for around 12 months.
The airport express will not extend the wireless network.
I reset it, restart, factory reset etc and it will work fine for around 3 days, then I get the same error message saying
This AirPort base station was unable to extend the wireless network. Make sure the wireless network you’re trying to extend was set up and is working correctly, that you entered a matching wireless network password into this device, and that this device is in range of the wireless network.
The express is situated easily within range of the extreme. And the airplay between those two, my iMac and two apple tv's works pretty much as it should.
Can someone please shed some light on this?
Maybe I have it in a wrong setting or summut....

G Beach wrote:
I am also experiencing a recent failure in my Airport devices no longer extending my wireless network.
My Aiport Express and second Airport Extreme were extending my wireless network for more than a year
The only change that has taken place lately is that the firmware for both devices was upgraded to 7.6.4, however the upgrade was only in response to trying to resolve this problem. Needless to say, the firmware upgrade did not resolve anything.
If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I wrote the above.
I have a TC from a few years ago (last one before the tower, I think), plus the older AEBS that it replaced extending the network, plus a 1-year-old Express also extending. I had upgraded them all to 7.6.3/4 when it came out, but reverted them all to 7.6.1 when everything went crapways (others having the same issues of the LAN regularly croaking), and didn't bother upgrading again since.
Today I just tried 7.6.4 on all of them, and it seemed OK at first with green lights all around in Airport Utility. Then I made one change, which was to enable 5Ghz on the main AEBS/TC only (the express doesn't need it, and the older AEBS can't do it).
The latter two started flasing amber and giving the "unable to extend wireless network" error message.
So I'm wondering if you are similarly using 5Ghz?

Trying to connect an XBOX 360 to my airport base station via ethernet cabl

Hello,
I have the older snow airport base station and was trying to connect my xbox 360 to it via an ethernet port. There are only 2 ethernet ports on the snow base station. one is being used by the cable coming from my dsl modem. the other free port i tried plugging into my xbox 360 to no avail. the xbox cant get an ip address. the open ethernet port on the base station is labeled with the circle logo. the one being used by my dsl modem has the two outer pointing arrows. I turned off the airport to my macbook and tried to connect my macbook to that port my xbox was in and it would not connect to the net either. Is it possible, i have the ports backwards. my wireless internet for all 3 mac computers works fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
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Yes, you have the ports connected backwards.
The WAN port is labelled with the "circle of dots" icon, and must be connected to your DSL modem.
The LAN port is labelled with the "double-headed arrow" icon, and that is where you connect ethernet cabled devices on your LAN.
See Apple's article AirPort Base Station: About the WAN and LAN Ports
What is surprising is that you haven't previously run into all sorts of problems with your existing setup. Once you cable things properly, you will likely have to power down your DSL modem and Base Station for a while (sometimes just an instant, sometimes overnight). After waiting, plug the modem into power and wait a minute. Then plug the base station into power and wait for it to restart.

Issues Solves - Firmware Downgrade, iMac & AppleTV Losing Airport

Thanks to this forum. Just wanted to re-iterate these issues that were solved.
Sometimes things are just so simple you overlook them. To downgrade your AEBS firmware,
just go to manual setup, and when you hold your mouse over VERSION, you can select the previous version of firmware. As others have reported, I have found 7.2 to be better than 7.2.1.
As for the iMac losing the Airport, turns out the 5GHz mode was the culprit. I have since switched to 2.4GHz mode, and all is now stable.
Lastly the AppleTV was STILL having trouble with 2.4GHz mode. After letting it sit for awhile, I'd always have to type in my WPA2 password. Needless to say, that's a pain. Some have said switch to WEP, but WPA2 is more secure. So I have tried the other suggestion ... switch from Automatic Channel selection to a fixed Channel, specifically Channel 9. That has worked for me.
Until Apple releases firmware that can fix all these issues people are having,
these are good workarounds.

I feel your pain. Started logging on this morning with our computers (once we got power back on from a broken pipe) and man is it a mess. My wifes MacBook Pro wont remember our ABES network, nor will it show up. If we select other from the drop down airport icon and manually type in the name and password it is fine until we shut it down or restart it.
Unfortunately, my daughters newer iBook G4 cant even find our network, however, it will find other networks floating around the neigborhood. Go figure!
My sons snow G3 iMac this morning is having the same problem as my daughters laptop.
Our G4 iMac has no problem at all getting on the network and/or remembering it and automatically connecting to it when restarted/shutdown.
My Toshiba M35 laptop cant find the network but will find others and connect to them.
My 2 Dell Inspiron 5100 (one with an internal and another with a Belkin PCMCIA wireless) both connected to the base stattion with no problems.
Now, isnt that weird or what? We have soft reset the AEBS several times as well as hard reset with the same results as above. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Sean
P.S. This is after we have been running the current network/setup for about a year with no hiccups. Got to love apple and its firmware upgrades!

IMac vs. AirPort Time Capsule.

Hi,
On my iMac running on 10.6.8, when I go into AirPort Utility.app, I get a message saying that I have to update my AirPort, and it gives me that address to get the update: http://www.apple.com/support/airport/
However, I can't seem to get the update...
I find this very confusing.
Can someone help me please? I keep having AirPort Time Capsule problems (it says that my printer isn't connected when it is IN FACT connected, it gives the same IP address to my iMac and MacBook Pro, etc.).
Thanks!
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Did you buy a new AC model TC?
If so you are in trouble. You cannot (at least easily) configure it using the 5.6 utility in Snow Leopard. Nor can you upgrade to later version of the airport utillity without upgrading the OS.
So I would try simply ignoring the problems.. apparently the 5.6 utility will in fact work.. it is just that it shouldn't. You might need to turn on ipv6 to local link for the wireless or ethernet connection you are using.. strongly recommend ethernet.
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