Airport Extreme Base Station

[musichouse]

I have two computers in my house......a PC and a recently acquired Mac G4 powerbook. I purchased an Apple Extreme Base Station so I could get on line anywhere in the house and not have to be stuck in the back room with the PC.
I'm supposed to be able to have a number of computers connected to the internet at the same time with the base station. Unfortunately I am only able to connect to the internet on one computer at a time. When I called Apple to find out how to confingure the PC to work with the G4 at the same time I was told many users do it but they can't give me any assistance because it has to do with a PC.
Is there anyone out there who is using a PC and Mac with an Apple Extreme Base Station? I could certainly use some advice. Thanks.

[brewster]

Musichouse,

I have a G4 and a windows (W) laptop - and have the Airport Extreme Base Station (AP) working well for both products. When setting the AP, make sure you have chosen the button in the Network choices that "allow for this computer to create networks."

Also, in the AP Utility, under the Network tab, be sure to choose the button that allows the AP to distribute IP addresses, then chose the format you wish to do this by (either sharing a single IP via DHCP and NAT, which is how I have mine)
or the other option.

then, in your W machine, be sure to have the software utility you are using set appropriately, be sure to include any WEP numbers you need to allow you to get into an encrypted network. This is a long number that can be found by opening the AP base station utility and then hitting the "Password" tab at the top.

It took me a couple of tries to get this configured, but you'll get there.

Good luck,

Brewster

PS I got the same biz from Apple when I tried to tell them i was working between an AP and my Apple and a Windoze machine...

[stajo12]

I've got one mac, a PC desktop (running xphome) and a PC laptop (running xppro) on my Airport Extreme base station. They work beautifully together.

When setting up the network you'll need to be sure the wireless cards in your pcs are working properly with the airport network. I ended up removing (disabling or deleting) the network connections on each of the pcs and then letting XP do its thing. On both PCs, the wireless card makers provided a little utility screen in which you simply connect to airport's network.

If you get a printer up and working, let me know