[nycdunz]

i been using my netgear rt314 router for 2+ years now, so i have no real reason to get the airport extreme base station, but lately its been giving me a lot of problems, not sure if it fried out, but its acting funny, when i release and renew my routers ip, sometimes i wont be able to renew it, but when i do renew it i get my old ip, but if i were to bypass my router and connect my mac directly to my cable modem i get a new ip, why is this?

but anyhows, should i get the aebs or stick with what i have? i heard the airport admin utility works really nice also the usb wireless printing, and whats this 56k remote thing? you can call your mac and wake it up or what?

[ghporter]

Your cable modem, like most DHCP servers, does not reuse an address for some new device immediately. It will hold that address for some time-dependent on whatever conditions are programmed into it-in case the original device reconnects. This isn't a problem.

I don't think that you get enough "bang for the buck" from AirPort base stations. All of these 802.11b and g devices are standards based, so buying from Apple just gets you... Oh, yeah, cool designs! That's it! It also gets you a premium price, and just about the only wireless access point in the industry that requires an application (other than your browser) to configure.