Glad your did it mine didn't and it took some digging to get it set up. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 11, 2015, at 2:27 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
