Your airport base station does something called Network Address 
Translation ("NAT") which masks the excess computers from the cable 
network... as far as RR can tell, the Airport Base Station itself is 
the only computer you have. The base station is effectively acting as a 
cable router for you.


On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 06:32  AM, Ralph Plumb wrote:

> I am using my imac and ibook at the same time both connected to Road
> Runner with an airport  base station.
> Ralph
>
> On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 01:58 AM, John Teffer wrote:
>
>> Wow, that is surprising to me.
>>
>> Did you or your family and friends have to pay your ISP any additional
>> money
>> to have more than one computer connected at once?
>>
>> Does the splitter device that you are using have a brand name, that I
>> could
>> look up online?


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