[webcookie]

I got my new iBook G4 today. It connects to the internet just fine via the modem inside (I'm using it right now, actually). The problem happens when I try to connect using the AirPort Extreme wireless basestation (the one with the modem inside, because I use dialup internet). I set up the AirPort as per the directions, it is connected to the power and the phone line. I connect to the internet. It dials, it says it's connected. When I try to open a webpage, it doesn't work. Can someone help me with this? I'm getting very agitated very quickly.

[Partisan01]

Originally posted by webcookie:
I got my new iBook G4 today. It connects to the internet just fine via the modem inside (I'm using it right now, actually). The problem happens when I try to connect using the AirPort Extreme wireless basestation (the one with the modem inside, because I use dialup internet). I set up the AirPort as per the directions, it is connected to the power and the phone line. I connect to the internet. It dials, it says it's connected. When I try to open a webpage, it doesn't work. Can someone help me with this? I'm getting very agitated very quickly.

Warning I don't have much experience with Airport, but I do have a lot of wireless/networking experience.

Steps I would take:
1. Make sure you're getting an ip address from the basestation
Terminal: ifconfig -a look for wi0 or en0 no lo

2. make sure you can ping the basestation
Terminal: ping <basestation ip>

3. If you can do both of these make sure that the wireless base station is your default route
Terminal: netstat -rn
If it isn't type 'route add default <ipaddress>'
or type 'man route' and learn all the things you can do with it.

Best of luck.

Nate

[webcookie]

Thanks for trying to help, but none of that made any sense to me.

[webcookie]

I fixed it.. I don't know what I did, but it's fixed. Reporting live from my bed, without wires.

[ghporter]

Well at least tell us what steps you took. Maybe it didn't seem important to you, but it may be incredibly important in what you did.

My guess is that whatever you did, it made your computer ask the base station for a new network address. When it did, everything suddenly worked. My curiosity wants to know which particular path you took to get where you wound up.

[webcookie]

All I know is that I unplugged the AirPort and then plugged it back in and it worked.

The signal is good all over the house.