Which Airport for wireless dialup?

I am moving and my new area does not have DSL. I will need to use a dial up service and I my Ibook G4 has an Airport Extreme card that I have been using with my DSL modem. I will need to buy an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station or the oval shaped one with a modem...Which one do I need to use my Ibook wirelessly? thanks!

You'll need the saucer-shaped Airport Extreme Base Station.

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I am using the U-verse 2 wire to connect to internet wireless, and ethernet, to Imac. Want to change to the TC for wireless in hopes it might be faster. How do I do that?

+Want to change to the TC for wireless in hopes it might be faster.+
If you are looking for a faster internet connection, your 2Wire is already much faster than your internet service, so adding an even faster TC will not provide any improvements as far as your internet connection is concerned.
If you are backing up to the TC using wireless, you will gain some improvement in this process.
You will need to connect the TC to the 2Wire gateway using an ethernet cable. Are you able to meet these requirements?
In addition, you'll need a second ethernet cable for configuration purposes, which will be disconnected after the TC is configured.
Post back when you are ready.

Which card for wireless?

I have a duo processor, mirrored G4 desktop and would like to install a wireless card so that I can connect to my airport base station. Which airport card should I use, or is there something better out there. I only have firewire 400 capability.

Of course, there are a few of us G4 owners with the "FW800" Dual 1.25 and Dual 1.42, which also support Airport Extreme. I actually have both a Dual 1.25 with Airport Extreme Card and a Single 1.25 Dual-Boot G4 with regular Airport card. I'd agree with the earlier post that Extreme G is significantly faster than B. My router is the older Airport Extreme (round) unit. Regular Airport is quite usable, but the issue I think is value. The few vendors that still sell an original Airport card seem to charge an arm and a leg. If your Mac doesn't support at least Extreme (the standard now is "N"), it probably would be well worth it to explore some way to get faster wireless, maybe through a PCI card or via Ethernet. And probably pay less also.

Which Airport for my PowerBook G4?

Hi..
I would like to connect Airport Extreme or Express to my old Power Book G4 running on Mac OS x (10.3.9) running on 550 Mhz. 256 MB Ram to a NTL connection.
Which hardware do I need to buy, as I've been told my computer is kinda old now!
I wanna know because I'm hopefully going to get a new G5 Imac as my main computer, but with the spare Power book G4 i want to make wireless around the house!
I'm just confused to which will make the above easier as I'm unsure what extreme or express does?
Many Thanks
Hakka.x
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 550 Mhz PowerPC G4. 256 MB SDRAM.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 550 Mhz PowerPC G4. 256 MB SDRAM.

Pipex are pretty good. Personally I've always hated AOL - it's a very very clumsy interface and they go to a great deal of trouble to control how you use the net.
If Pipex give you the option of a wireless router then you may as well get that. Alternatively, I can definitely recommend the Netgear DG834G. Both the new imac and the Powerbook (when you put a card in it) will work wirelessly with it. shop around for a price, it is about £60 with free delivery from Amazon.
The DG834g has built in wireless, adsl modem (plugs straight into adsl line) and 4 ports - so you could wire your imac to it if it is close enough.
As for making the Powerbook wireless, the best and easiest option is to get a PCMCIA wireless card. An Airport card will just cost more to do the same job in what is gradually turning into an old machine. Apple airport uses the broadcom chipset, so a broadcom chipset based card will act just like a native Airport card in your mac. the main company using broadcom chipsets is Sonnet. They have a card called the Sonnett Aria Extreme PCMCIA - It is £50 here;
http://www.macheaven.co.uk/?page=proddetail∏=1344
and might be a bit cheaper if you shop around or know anyone in the US who can get one for you.
I hope that helps. Pipex may offer a USB modem as part of setup, it's not worth having - very difficult to get from that to wireless networking, although if you are really stuck for cash you could attach the imac with usb to the net and then sgare that connection with the Powerbook - which would save you the cost of the router - but you'd basically be using the desktop as a router which would have to be left on all the time. Personally I'd go with the Netgear.
Also - Pipex have a deal whereby if you swicth your phone calls over through them they give you cheap rates and 1000-3000 mins for £4 per month or so - you might want to look into that at the same time - cheaper than BT if you use the phone much - and international rates are pretty good. You don't lose your BT line, just route the actual calls via Pipex - so you have a fixed/low cost for the actual calls.
That's all I can think of for now, sorry there isn't a cheaper solution. I hope that helps.
Best of luck.

Which AirPort for me (if any)?

Hello and thank you if you can help and sorry if my terminology is wrong however hopefully you know what I mean...
I have finally found a mediocre internet provider, quite an achievement given the fact that I live in the UK where they are all pathetic.
However it comes with a single box (BrightBox) that does the job of collecting the internet from the ISP and making it into a WiFi service.
The range of the WiFi is unacceptable - I am wondering if I can use an AirPort product to take this job away from the BrightBox whilst obviously still letting the BrightBox get my internet from the ISP. In other words I want to use a wire to connect the BrightBox to the AirPort device and let this device transmit the WiFi signal. Is this what it is for?
Also, will it extend my range considering the BrightBox WiFi slows down after moving about 2 rooms away?
And finally which device would you recommend for a medium sized house with a lot of other WiFi networks and other inteference (out of my control) nearby?
Thanks very much!!

Most ISPs supply the cheapest possible junk they can find. Any of Apple's AirPort Base Stations are likely to be much more capable.
http://www.apple.com/compare-wifi-models/
In other words I want to use a wire to connect the BrightBox to the AirPort device and let this device transmit the WiFi signal. Is this what it is for?
Yes.
Also, will it extend my range considering the BrightBox WiFi slows down after moving about 2 rooms away?
Perhaps. Predictions regarding Wi-Fi performance are impossible to make without knowledge of one's particular wireless environment.

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I have a potential problem with my recently purchased Sound Blaster Wireless Music (which is cool but I'm not sure which forum to post the question in.
Please could someone point me in the right direction?
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JamesHA,
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Multiple Airport for Wireless iTunes

I have one Airport Exreme connected to the internet via DSL modem. I have 3 Airport Expresses located around the house and 1 UFO Apple Base Station. What the best way to set up my network....do I join existing...extend....or WDS...? I seem to have an iTunes stutter problem.
Jim

For best bandwidth for audio streaming, you will want to configure all three 802.11n AirPort Express Base Stations (AXn) to join the wireless network provided by the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) and leave the older 802.11g AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) out of the network all together.

HT5622 Have 3-yr. old i-Mac with establshed Apple ID. Wife just got new i-Pad Air with her own e-mail address AND set up her Apple ID for it . Both use the same Apple Airport in home for wireless. Question: Do we have or maintaing separate APPLE IDs f

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Apple Airport for wireless when in home. Did her new i-Pad Apple ID change the one set for the old i-Mac?

No it's not stealing. They have an allowance that you can share with so many computers/devices. You'll have to authorize her computer to play/use anything bought on your acct. You can do this under the Store menu at top when iTunes is open on her computer.
As far as getting it all on her computer....I think but I am not sure (because I don't use the feature) but I think if you turn on Home Sharing in iTunes it may copy the music to her computer. I don't know maybe it just streams it. If nothing else you can sign into your acct on her computer and download it all to her computer from the cloud. Not sure exactly how to go about that, I haven't had to do that yet. I wonder if once you authorize her computer and then set it up for automatic downloads (under Edit>Preferences>Store) if everything would download. Sorry I'm not much help on that.

How to set up Airport Extreme with Charter ARRIS Modem TM902A for the first time for WIRELESS.

How to set up Airport Extreme with Charter ARRIS Modem TM902A for the first time for WIRELESS.
When Charter Tech goes to your site, have them connect the modem up, but do not connect the modem to your iMAC or MacBook Pro. What you want to do is connect the Airport Extreme to the iMac or MacBook Pro first with the Ethernet Cable. You have to do this to configure via Airport Utility to set up the Base Station Name & Base Station Password.
You will then create/configure a Wireless Network, create your Wireless Password that will be entered on each of your Devices, example, Apple Tv, your iPhone, etc., you want to allow access to your Wireless Network you are creating.
Wireless Security will be -> WPA/WPA2 personal or just WPA2
Enter the Wireless Password you want
Verify the Wireless Password (enter it again)
After it is created you will see it on the Airport Utility window with the name you created for it and to the left, will be a Dot (circle that will be yellow).
Next you then want to unplug the power to the Airport Extreme, and then take the end of the Ethernet cable you unplugged from the iMac or Lap top MacBook Pro and connect it to the back of the Modem.
Next unplug the power cord from the modem and wait about 5 minutes, then plug the power back into the Arris Modem and wait until all lights come back on the modem wait
about 5 minutes, then plug the power cord back to the Airport Extreme and you will see it the light blinking yellow. Wait about 5 to 10 minutes, during this time Restart you IMAC or MacBook Pro, and once it is back up click on the Airport Utility and you should see on the Airport Utility screen.
For INTERNET to the left the light should be green and you should see the Airport Extreme also appear and the light to the left on the screen should also be green. If they are, you then should be able to click on the Wireless Symbol on top of bar of the screen and click to select the Wireless Network Name you created.
If you Do Not See the light (Icon) next to INTERNET turn Green, or if you see the Internet Light Green, but the Light (Icon) next to the Airport Extreme is yellow, unplug the power again to the modem and unplug the power again to the Airport extreme and wait about 15 minutes or up to 30 minutes. Then plug the power cord back to the modem wait till all the lights light up then, plug the power cord back into the Airport Extreme and Restart your iMAC or MacBook Pro.
The Airport Extreme light should change from yellow to green. Open up the Airport Utility to see what the indicators are showing they should both be green. Again select Wireless network you created under the Wireless Icon on the top right of the screen. Open Safari and see if you are able to Route to a web page or the apple site should appear.
WHAT TO DO IF YOUR AIRPORT EXTREME WAS PREVIOUSLY SET UP FOR USE WITH ANOTHER CARRIERS ROUTER OR MODEM.
NOTE: If you already had your Airport Extreme connected for example, I previously had ATT Uverse and the Airport Extreme was connected to the Wireless Router Model 3801HGV, I disabled the Uverse Wireless and used the Airport Extreme for the Wireless signal in bridge mode, as the Airport extreme Signal is much stronger than the Uverse router, and I was able to obtain a Wireless signal with the Airport Extreme way much better with no signal loss which was very very frustrating with the Uverse router.
Anyhow if you had it hooked up like this, now that you will be using it with the Charter ARRIS Modem TM902A, you will need to reset the Airport Extreme to clear out the old data it has in memory, with the previous set up otherwise it will not work. Trust me I spent 6 hours trying to make it work reading all Apple Support Community questions and answers relating to this type issue/problem others have been having trying to get their set up working. I tried all the tips, and I finally decided just to see if by chance I would be able to connect with someone with Charter Tech support who might be familiar with Apple to be able to assist me and by luck I did. He told me why it was not working and was all due the previous configuration with the ATT Uverse router was still in memory with the Airport Extreme. Finally it was 10:30 PM when I decided to call Charter Tech Support and I had been working on this since 3:00 pm pacific. I did not call them earlier as all the post I read said they never received any good help from Charter. After calling them I finished up by 11:00 PM and was able to finally connect Apple Tv, iMac, iPhones and Macbook Pro. We love our Apple Product and Happy all is connected with the new
Internet Provider Charter. I must say the speed is way way much better than it ever was with AT&T Uverse.
THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO DO:
First you will need to unplug the Airport Extreme, then by taking the tip of a pen or paper clip end you need to push the reset button on the back of the Airport Extreme and hold it
down and at the same time plug the power cord back into the Airport Extreme count to 5 or 10 then release the reset button. Then once he light in front of the Airport Extreme stops blinking you need to plug the Ethernet cable from the Airport Extreme to your iMAC or Macbook Pro, and restart which ever one you have, then open the Airport Utility once it is back up. If you see airport extreme pop up with the old network name or it shows and yellow triangle click on the Airport Extreme ICON it will not let you configure it but will ask if you want to get rid of it or remove and just do it. Then Again restart your iMAC or MacBook Pro, open up Airport Utility again, and on the top left you should see under “Other Airport Base Stations” the MAC ID for the Airport Extreme.
You will then create/configure a Wireless Network, create your Wireless Password that will be entered on each of your Devices, example, Apple TV, your iPhone, etc., you want to allow access to your Wireless Network you are creating.
Wireless Security will be -> WPA/WPA2 personal or just WPA2
Enter the Wireless Password you want
Verify the Wireless Password (enter it again)
After it is created you will see it on the Airport Utility window with the name you created for it and to the left, will be a Dot (circle that will be yellow).
Next you then want to unplug the power to the Airport Extreme, and then take the end of the Ethernet cable you unplugged from the iMac or Lap top MacBook Pro and connect it to the back of the Modem.
Next unplug the power cord from the modem and wait about 5 minutes, then plug the power back into the Arris Modem and wait until all lights come back on the modem wait
about 5 minutes, then plug the power cord back to the Airport Extreme and you will see it the light blinking yellow. Wait about 5 to 10 minutes, during this time Restart you IMAC or MacBook Pro, and once it is back up click on the Airport Utility and you should see on the Airport Utility screen.
For INTERNET to the left the light should be green and you should see the Airport Extreme also appear and the light to the left on the screen should also be green. If they are, you then should be able to click on the Wireless Symbol on top of bar of the screen and click to select the Wireless Network Name you created.
If you Do Not See the light (Icon) next to INTERNET turn Green, or if you see the Internet Light Green, but the Light (Icon) next to the Airport Extreme is yellow, unplug the power again to the modem and unplug the power again to the Airport extreme and wait about 15 minutes or up to 30 minutes. Then plug the power cord back to the modem wait till all the lights light up then, plug the power cord back into the Airport Extreme and Restart your iMAC or MacBook Pro.
The Airport Extreme light should change from yellow to green. Open up the Airport Utility to see what the indicators are showing they should both be green. Again select Wireless network you created under the Wireless Icon on the top right of the screen. Open Safari and see if you are able to Route to a web page or the apple site should appear.

I just got a Charter Modem. Model TM822. While I was moving, my Airport Extreme was still at my old place.
I have a Linksys WRT320N I used for the initial Charter setup.
I can get my Airport to work here, but the Internet light on the Modem flashes Yellow.
Hasn't caused any issues so far but one thing I did notice.
On the Linksys there were 3 DNS servers listed.
The Airport Extreme only lists 2 and i don't see where I could add another, only change whats already there.
I tried everything above, but light on modem still flashes yellow.
I have the technicians cell phone. Told me "that shouldn't be" and gave the same advice listed above.
I'll break down and call Charter one day, see if it's on their end. NSA tracking may need a reset LMAO.

I have a Westell 6100G modem. I want to set up Airport Express for wireless. Can someone tell me how to do it step by step. I'm using an HP with Windows Vista. I'm a tech idiot.

Just got Airport Express to save on GBs of data. I have already a Westell 6100G which is for use as Internet Broadband, via Verizon. How do I set up the Airport Express with this Westell. Do I even still need the Westell, or do I need to also buy a wireless router? I'm a tech idiot and this is driving me nuts.

The Westell 6100G is a combination modem and router or gateway device. The AirPort Express is a wireless router.
Since the Express does not have a built-in modem, you will still need your Westell gateway in order to access the Internet.
Which exact model of AirPort Express do you have. It will be written (in very hard to read type on a label on one of the AirPort's sides). It should look something like: A1392. It may also state a Order#. In that case it would look something like: MC414LL/A
Regardless of which model you have, the basic network configuration would be that you would connect an Ethernet cable between the Westell's Ethernet port and the WAN (circle of dots) port on the Express. (Note: If you have an earlier model of the Express, you would connect the cable to the only Ethernet port on the Express.)
The good news is that you will not have to make any configuration changes to the Westell. We should be able to use it as configured.
What we are going to start with is getting a basic Wi-Fi network that should provide your computer with wireless access to the Internet. Once verified as working, we can fine-tune this network to include wireless security and any other goals that you may have.
Ready to start?
I would recommend that you do the following as a minimum:
Power-down the Westell and computer(s).
While all of the devices are powered-down, perform a "factory default" reset on the AirPort Express base station. This will get it back to its "out-of-the-box" configuration and make setting it up much easier, especially if you use the "Assist me" process within the AirPort Utility. (ref: Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule)
Once the reset has completed, remove the AirPort Express from power.
Connect an Ethernet cable between the Westell and the AirPort Express.
Power-up the Westell; wait at least 10-15 minutes to allow it adequate time to initialize.
Power-up the AirPort base station; wait at least 5-10 minutes. Note: The AirPort's status light may continue to flash amber after it has intialized. That is because, there may be some additional configuration items necessary, like setting up wireless security, before the overall setup is completed to get a green status.
Power-up your computer(s).
In this basic configuration, the AirPort base station will broadcast an unsecured wireless network with a Network Name (SSID) of Apple Network NNNNNN. Network clients, connected to the base station either by wire or wireless, should now be able to access the Internet through the ISP's modem. Once Internet connectivity has been verified, you can use the AirPort Utility to configure the base station for wireless security and any other desired options. Please post back your results.

Scan for wireless networks doesn't find Airport Express

Help please!
I've been trying for days to set up my Airport Express.
When I do the scan for wireless networks, my computer seems to find every network in my block of flats except my AX. I found it once or twice, and then used the AirPort Utility to do the setup. But then it lost the connection on restart. Now the AX connection is nowhere to be found.
Similarly, when I scan for AXs using AirPort Utility it finds nothing.
I don't think it's the AX that's the problem, because I have a wifi blackberry and when I scan for wireless networks on that it finds the AX (although it won't connect). And I don't see how it can be my computer (which is not a Mac) because it finds about 10 other networks.
What am I doing wrong? I'd be most grateful to anyone who could explain it to me in language a 2 year old could understand, because it's all a complete mystery to me.
I use a BT Home Hub for wireless internet, if that makes any difference.
Thanks!

If there are lots of other networks in the area you are probably getting a lot of RF interference.
Can I also add, the AX has relatively weak signal compare to some of the desktop wireless routers due to its size and small power source. If the interference is really a problem, AX might not be your best solution. You should consider upgrade the AX to something more powerful like the AEBS/n. Get the N version so you have a choice of moving your wireless network out of the crowded 2.4GHz band and move it into less populated 5GHz band.
Just my 2 cents.
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Configuring Airport Express for Wireless G

Is it important or would it help with Airport Express' performance if it was configured for wireless 'g' instead of 'n'? And if so, how do you do that with a pc?
Thanks

Thank you Duane and others.
This is a very interesting discussion group with a lot of AX users having problems for one reason or another. The main frustration is with, at least for me, the intermittent functionality. As opposed to my wireless laptop, which connects with the network each and every time I turn it on, the AX is good about 75% of the time. And in turn, if iTunes or the Airport Utility can't see the AX there's absolutely nothing you can do to get it to, short of rebooting the laptop, restarting iTunes, etc.
My next plan is to move AX rather close to the wireless router to ascertain if signal strength is the issue.
And I have 'one' last question, are there people out there that have 100% success all the time using AX, especially for streaming iTunes?
Thanks again.

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Using a Airport Express Base Station for wireless printing. Got a new DSL router yesterday. Our old one we did not have password protected. The new one is. I can't figure out how to get the base station to connect with the new router.

thanks for the reply, I couldn't connect with the base station. The solution (thank you apple genius bar) was to do a soft rest of the unit which allowed and ethernet connectiont to be established. Took the genius bar gy about ten min (and 2 attempts) to get the base station reconfigured. Got home and it worked like a charm. Would have never known what he knew. Thank you genius bar. Thank you for taking time to respond.

How to restart base station from airport utility? I used to be able to do it remotely I currently use a Mac Pro 10.8.4 and have a time machine for wireless 6.3 (630.34). Sometimes I cannot connect to the internet and use network preferences to diagnose t

How to restart base station from airport utility? I used to be able to do it remotely
I currently use a Mac Pro 10.8.4 and have a time machine for wireless 6.3 (630.34). Sometimes I cannot connect to the internet and use network preferences to diagnose the issue. This results in being told to restart the wireless. The airport utility includes the drop down option of restarting but is not clickable so I can't choose it.
With my prior macbook and same time capsule, etc if i had problems connecting to the internet I would run network diagnostics to help out. This included clicking on the airport utility ---> base station --> restart. This worked most of the time.
Bottom line, is there something I am missing in not being able to restart the wi-fi remotely? ]
Thanks in advance

You are likely forgetting a step.
Open AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule icon
Click Edit in the small window that appears
Now click the Base Station menu.....top of the screen....not the Base Station "tab" in the center of the screen
Click Restart

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