Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
My word, Ants in a Wifi router. What next! On 27 Sep 2013, at 21:05, Chris Blouch wrote: > Years ago (1998?) I had been renting a wifi router box from my cable provider > for a while and then decided to keep the money to myself and buy my own unit. > I purposly purchased two separate boxes - t

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Years ago (1998?) I had been renting a wifi router box from my cable provider for a while and then decided to keep the money to myself and buy my own unit. I purposly purchased two separate boxes - the cable modem and the wifi/router. Over the years I've upgraded my wifi a couple times as the w

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think the easiest way is to Either turn of the broadcast function of the cable modem/router or, put your extreme into bridge mode. This is actually what I did since Verizon FIos forces these combo modem/routers on you. If you decide to use your extreme in bridge mode, you can do this bu

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Cait. All you do is connect your AirPort Extreme to your Mac and the other end in to your provider's modem if that's the type of ISP you use. In other words, take away the provider's router. then on your Mac go to Airport Utility, after pressing on the image with VO space. find edit butto

Re: airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Kliphton
It would help to kno who your provider is. Also, if you can, exchange the router/modem combo, to just a modem, that way all you have to do is plug the modem from your ISP to your extreme Kliphton iMessage kliph...@icloud.com - E-Mail kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,Instagram,FourSquare&Skype) klip

airport extreme hook up question

2013-09-27 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi, We just got an extreme and I have a few questions. We currently have one of those modem/router boxes from our internet provider. We want to replace the router in that box with the extreme. How is this done? Do I deactivate the router in the modem box, then attach the extreme to the box an