The Airport Extreme base stations are faster. They also have an ethernet port for downstream networking, so you can use it as your router.
I have mine plugged directly into my cable modem, and connect all 4 macs in my house via wireless. When I occasionally need to plug in a wired ethernet computer, I just plug it into the network port on the base.
You can set up Airport to provide NAT/DHCP over wired as well as wireless clients.
Hope this helps.
-Hal
On May 22, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Jim Scolman wrote:
Hello Everyone, aside from the speed difference, are there any "issues" using an early "Graphite" Airport, or a later "Snow" unit with Panther 10.3.3, regular Airport card, and internet cable modems? As the Airport has only one RJ-45 port, can an ethernet switch be connected between the cable modem and the Airport to provide a place for a non-wireless Mac to connect to the network?
Thanks, Jim.
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