[Bruck]

I have a cable modem at home and a netgear router (recently purchased) that I really like. However, I would like to achieve the one feature I gave up by not getting the apple base station. I'd like to dial into my house and use the phone line to get online thru my cable modem instead of paying for an ISP etc... Can I add the airport base station to my current router and achieve this without replacing my current router? Maybe at the same time use it to extend the signal stregth and add more ports to my network? (but still use the netgear as the primary router)?

Can I add any other device to my network to achieve this? Can My powerbook's modem port do this? (share internet with a dial-in caller)?

Does the computer dialing in have to be a mac to use this/these features?

Thanks

[spiky_dog]

you can't dial _in_ to an airport base station as far as i know. so no, your idea would not work as envisioned.

[Bruck]

someone told me you could.

[Partisan01]

Originally posted by Bruck:
someone told me you could.

try this, set up a cheap linux box, you could probably use os x, and has it sit on your phone line and home network. set up the routing table so that everything on the modem incomming goes to the ethernet interface into your cable modem. You can get software that will detect if it's a data or voice call and the modem will respond accordingly. If you're looking for low power, low footprint solution check out http://www.soekris.com. We've used a few of those at work and they're awesome, you'd need an external modem, but those are a dime a dozen on ebay. Best of luck.

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[KP*]

You can dial in to the Airport Exreme base station that comes with a modem. I do this sometimes, to access files on my home computer when at work. It also connects me to the internet via my cable modem at home, which sounds like what you want. An AEBS will do this, but then you wouldn't need your current router. But you could probably link them to spread the range of your network over a larger area. I don't have any experience with multiple-base-station networks, so maybe someone else can offer suggestions of how to get the best use out of both.