I've become the resident "Mac guy" at a major mid-atlantic cable company. There are plenty of customers who have either airport, or more generally, both wired and wireless routers (including me).
The Mac training modules I'm putting together (see the Mac homework email I sent out the other day) is designed to fix this issue of lack of knowledge. Most folks are strong in PC technology where I work, but they simply panic when they hear "Mac OS."
Airport will work with your cable connection. Our service uses DHCP and yours probably does too. One has to "power cycle" the modem when adding or changing out equipment such as a router or new/different PC. The base station will be the device handling the DHCP requests and your Macs will "talk" to the airport and get their IPs from it. Airport IPs start with 10.x.x.x.
I'd be happy to answer any other questions you have about this. Feel free to email me off line.
On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Graham Wallis wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking of getting broadband through my cable tv supplier, (the cable
modem is already inside the set-top box), I don't want wires going all over
the house from my living-room downstairs to my small network of Quicksilver
G4 and Pismo in the attic. Can I use an AirPort base station connected to my
set-top box? As you would expect the cable company are about as helpful as a
not very helpful thing, and I'm hoping someone on this list has done this
before.
TIA for any help Graham
Thanks,
Glenn
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