[MikeD]

Can you hook up an ABS to a router? What I'm thinking of doing is hardwiring an ethernet cable from one room in the house to a remote location where the airport signal is low and just plugging in that ethernet cable into the back of the ABS therefore getting full signal strength there. Would that work? Or is there another alternative? This is for an SBC DSL line that we currently use.

Mike

[aaanorton]

Do you already have the router? Cause you can also just use two AEBSs and the second BS would wirelessly bridge the connection to that area. No cable required.

[MikeD]

Well, the router is a linksys ethernet and wireless 802.11b base station. I don't know if the AEBS would bridge the linksys...

Mike

[KeyLimePi]

I've got my ABS running through a Linksys four-port router. When Comcast switched to dynamic IP addressing this was the only way to get my ABS to work properly with my Cable modem.

Apple has since updated the ABS firmware, so I could probably do without the router, but I'm leaving it alone. It makes it so easy when I want to connect my sister's non-aiport-equipped iMac to my Internet connection (to download Apple's notoriously large updates). Plus it acts as a firewall, giving me an extra level of security. And, well, plus it's already there.

[bjresta]

Originally posted by KeyLimePi:
I've got my ABS running through a Linksys four-port router. When Comcast switched to dynamic IP addressing this was the only way to get my ABS to work properly with my Cable modem.

Apple has since updated the ABS firmware, so I could probably do without the router, but I'm leaving it alone. It makes it so easy when I want to connect my sister's non-aiport-equipped iMac to my Internet connection (to download Apple's notoriously large updates). Plus it acts as a firewall, giving me an extra level of security. And, well, plus it's already there.

Question: do you run AOL for OSX through your Airport/router combo? There are number of threads describing problems with this. If you have a solution, please reply. Thanks!

[aaanorton]

Originally posted by MikeD:
Well, the router is a linksys ethernet and wireless 802.11b base station. I don't know if the AEBS would bridge the linksys...

Mike

That's why I asked if you already owned the router or not. If you were just planning things, two AEBSs might make sense.
But to answer your question, yes, you can run a cable to the ABS. There is a way to set these up for roaming (I've never done this, but search for roaming on this forum) that MIGHT work. You have to name both routers the same. When you walk around the house, you will automatically connect to the router with the strongest signal, but it will look like just one AP. The catch is that both routers need to support this.

[ghporter]

This may be a hint at bjresta's solution: if you connect an AirPort Base Station to a gateway router, you need to configure it to act as a bridge only. That's done on the Network tab of the Admin Utility. You need to uncheck "Distribute IP addresses." This tells the base station to simply pass packets back and forth, and not process them through its NAT section-which may be what's fouling up your AOL connection.

[MikeD]

Originally posted by aaanorton:
That's why I asked if you already owned the router or not. If you were just planning things, two AEBSs might make sense.
But to answer your question, yes, you can run a cable to the ABS. There is a way to set these up for roaming (I've never done this, but search for roaming on this forum) that MIGHT work. You have to name both routers the same. When you walk around the house, you will automatically connect to the router with the strongest signal, but it will look like just one AP. The catch is that both routers need to support this.

Okay, I think this is what I need. Roaming. But I just have to find out if my linksys router/802.11b access point supports it. I'm guessing that Airport Extreme supports it?