The more enlightened in the group will have a reason for this, I am only reporting what happened.
AT&T finally brought U-Verse to my residence, I could get the two lines for phone and the 18 meg internet all for $100.00 per month lower than the two lines with DSL at 3 meg. When I signed the contract I made it clear that I wanted them to set their Modem/Router into Bridge mode so the Airport Extreme would be the front line rather than AT&T. The tech that came to the house hadn’t a clue how to do this, he instant messaged the manufacturer of the Modem and they were clueless so he called a couple different people with AT&T. The local contact with AT&T said it couldn’t be done with a particular modem he installed & he would have to use a model where bridge mode could be set. He exchanged the modem/routers and we looked and looked where to set the AT&T modem to bridge, couldn’t find it anywhere BUT while we were waiting I noticed on Airport Utility I got the all “green” showing that Extreme AND Internet were connected ready to go. We checked and sure enough the Airport was in control of distributing IP addresses and we were connected to the internet. I didn’t want to mention it to him but just before we unhooked the first modem/router from AT&T Airport Utility also had turned green so even the one that wouldn’t work according to AT&T was in fact operational. In the past we have always had to turn these modem/routers to bridge mode but not this time. I don’t know if Apple’s Airport Extreme begins communicating with whatever is hooked to it and makes the changes for the user? Whatever it’s simply amazing how these Apple products work, impressive!! John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
