Thanks Jonathan, this is a good note to keep. I have an AT&T DSL line at home, hooked to an Airport Extreme. It’s been installed for a good while, put the Modem in Bridge mode and has worked fine.
At my office I was able to get U-Verse, they installed and put the modem in bridge mode and is hooked to an Airport Extreme. All works fine, don’t know why, don’t know how. It was a short install as far as time and I have never had to have them back. I don’t like AT&T at all, if I didn’t need them as a backup to cable I wouldn’t have anything with them. Guess I have been lucky. John > On Feb 7, 2015, at 9:49 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Steven Brown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I will be buying a new router soon and wanted to know if anyone has used an >> airport extreme with AT&T? > > > Steven, > > It depends on what you need. The Airports have been great. Sometimes there > have been issues, but Apple has updated the software for them many times. If > you need all of Apple's features, they're great. > > If you want to replace a UVerse router, then there are issues, more to how > difficult it is to pass through the signal so that ANY other router can do > the job, as opposed than the one in the AT&T multifunction box. > > >>Know that you still have to use their box, just fewer of its functions.<< > > The problem is that the really lousy software in the AT&T is hard to > configure, and sometimes the passthrough of the routing functions to your own > router just doesn't work. Richard Meadows' experience with an Airport will > not be yours because it is way easier to put a new router after a TWC box > than an AT&T box. > > [Don't count on their tech support helping you either. They will refer you to > their "Advanced" tech support (due to the fact that you are going > "off-script" with a non-AT&T router) who will charge you a bunch and… Let's > just say that their employees didn't appear to be born into this world in a > country where English was spoken around the dinner table every night. When I > had to inquire of them, they didn't understand what I wanted and I couldn't > understand what they were saying either. (I got my money back.)] > > If you want the backup capabilities, then you should get a Time Capsule. They > work better than attaching an external drive to an AE, and the drives in the > Time Capsule are warranted by Apple which makes it way easier to get help if > you have problems. Even if you don't want wifi or routing, this is still a > nice solution to multi-computer Time Machine backups. > > With either the Airport Express and the Time Capsule you can turn off the > router part ("bridge mode") and just user the AT&T router as it was set up > (except for turning off the AT&T wifi, if you want). Your wifi, print serving > and backups will work great on any Apple and the Airport Utility make this a > pretty easy setup. > > However, if you just want the ability to add really great wifi access, then > the devices at the following links are awesome, have a really nice > configuration app that runs on your Mac, and costs WAAAAY less than an > 'Extreme or a 'Capsule. I have installed several of these around, both the > standard model and the "long range" one and they really outperform the wifi > of anything else I have ever used. And they look really hi-tech if you want > to install them someplace where they can be seen. And my favorite feature > (besides how inexpensive they are): they are "power-over-ethernet" so you can > install one anywhere there isn't a power outlet, since the power is supplied > on the ethernet cable. That makes them very easy to install in any kind of > out-of-the-way location. I have mounted them high up on walls, in attics and > on ceilings, running just one little cable to it through a tiny and > covered-up hole in the wall. > > Regular > http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B004XXMUCQ/ref=sr_1_1 > > <http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B004XXMUCQ/ref=sr_1_1> > > Long Range > http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UniFi-Access-UAP-LR-US-Version/dp/B005H4CDF4/ref=pd_cp_pc_0 > > <http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UniFi-Access-UAP-LR-US-Version/dp/B005H4CDF4/ref=pd_cp_pc_0> > > > Have fun! > > Jonathan > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker Certified Developer (9 thru 13) > FileMaker Business Alliance > > Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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