[poison]

So here it goes:

Just bought a AirPort Extreme base station and card. What do i have to do to make it work ? Ive got ADSL and want to plug the cable into the base station and be able to walk around and surf the web (thats why wireless is about ,aint it?!?!) but cant make it work.

It asks me about passwords and networks ... can someone tell me the procedure he went through to make it work. Ive got a ibook 900


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[Macpilot]

Have you run Software Update recently? Make sure your Airport software is up to date.

Does your iBook "see" the base station? When you click on the Airport icon in your menu bar, does a "Apple Network xxxxxx" appear in the list?

Have you run the Airport Setup Assistant? Once you establish communications with the base station, then you run the Airport Admin Utility (in you Utilites folder) to manage your base station (password, security, etc.)

If you still have problems after that, call Apple. They will walk you through it if you are still in the 90 days of free tech support or you bought Applecare.

I know when I got my Extreme base station, there was a firmware update that I needed for it to work.

Let us know how it works out?

[poison]

Ok the problem was that i didnt have the password for the network and for the base station so i reset the base station and changed the password and now im posting this over my new ibook over airport ..=))

thanks for the hints, but i just checked the manual and it works now. have to check if i can connect to my powermac without any problem... stay tuned ..



poison

[Macpilot]

Great!

[poison]

i cant believe it. i just popped the ethernet cable into airport and voila ! i was connected ... im talkin just like one of the switchers =)) i installed a network printer - no problem , did file sharing - no problem and i connected my powermac over airport onto the internet. great ! Ive got dsl and am quite happy, over airport it isnt that lossy. Still have about 900-1000 kbs download bandwidth =)

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