AirPort extreme

[Captain Dad]

My router died the other week and we've been stealthfully borrowing internet from our neighbors for a while (no password, then go ahead and use it). Wife could not take the lost connections anymore so she o.k.'d a new router purchase. I got the airport extreme. Easy to set up, printer and external HD on the network, password protected, works great. I returned some stuff I had gotten for connecting the computer to the t.v. since internet was more important so it cost me mostly best buy bucks. Probably could have saved 50 bucks by getting a linksys or netgear but we both run Macs so what the hell.

[Don-Dad]

I like my airport extreme, except I could not get it to work with my isp, well through a straight connection, I run it through my old router (well not that old, bought it 6 months before the Airport).

You should have bought the more expensive router with the hard drive, you can use time machine with that (or is it time capsule?)

[Captain Dad]

Time capsule, Best Buy is always out and I cannot justify the expense since I already have an external HD. Of course you cannot use it through time machine through an airport connection. I'll just plug it in once a week and back up though.

[seattle]

Nice router. I would like one but I have six Belkin wireless routers setup in bridge mode since I do not have wired cabling in my house. I have an old Apple Airport but it does not support WAP so I don't use it.

[TuffDogStudio]

Airports ROCK! Love the ease of use on them. But, I use a Linksys WRT54G router because me likey to hack the software :tusk:

Maybe I'll spring for a fancy new Airport Extreme and just for the back-up ability, but using our external Hard drives as backups has been working good for us so far.

As for borrowing a neighbors connection, I figure if they didn't want anyone else to use it they would have locked it down.

[stretch]

If they're that clueless, it's highly likely the router's admin login is still admin/password. Were you a mean neighbor, you could log into it, change the SSID to something like, say, YOURWIFEDIGSMYBIGONE and then lock them out of their own access point with the password of your choice. :eusa_whistle:

[Hockeyfan]

Airports ROCK! Love the ease of use on them. But, I use a Linksys WRT54G router because me likey to hack the software :tusk:

Maybe I'll spring for a fancy new Airport Extreme and just for the back-up ability, but using our external Hard drives as backups has been working good for us so far.

As for borrowing a neighbors connection, I figure if they didn't want anyone else to use it they would have locked it down.

Do you have a MAC with that WRT54G? I had one of those and it wouldn't work with the MAC. I bought a D-Link DGL-4500. Good to go!

[TuffDogStudio]

Do you have a MAC with that WRT54G? I had one of those and it wouldn't work with the MAC. I bought a D-Link DGL-4500. Good to go!

Yup... I actually have installed them on alot of Mac based networks, even taken Airports out of networks and installed WRTs, easy peasy puddin 'n pie. They work right outta the box, never had one refuse to work with a Mac.

If you get the older versions of them, they have Linux and can be tweeked to do all kinds of KOOL stuff.

My WRT runs two G5s two Mac portables, a Windows box (Gaming machine) and a Windows portable.

[Don-Dad]

I had trouble getting an old laptop to connect to my airport extremes wireless signal, its a really old laptop (Dell) with a wireless car. So I too used a neighbors connection, hahaha!

I'm not sure the problem, it keeps asking for some network access code and the password I set up does not work (it did work when I connected my wii).

[TuffDogStudio]

yeah, users and passwords are case sensitive and very touchy on an Airport. I usually setup WEP encryption and then use the locations phone number as the WEP key to login to the network. And if you're a paranoid skitzo like me :dumb: I enable MAC address filtering along with WEP so that you not only have to have the WEP key but your machines MAC address has to be entered into the router before you're allowed access.

[Hockeyfan]

Mine is an iMAC. Not sure if they are the ones that have issues. I had MAC help, Road Runner and then looked online and found others with this problem. Sucked.