Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-15 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 14, 9:52 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Please let us know how the 11n performs with the 2nd drive.  Try to stress test it a bit - accessing both drives at the same time, then again, from multiple Macs, then again while running some network speed tests. I'm interested in seeing

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-15 Thread John Martz
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: Also, you may get different results depending on whether you are using the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz band.  Shouldn't the 5GHz be faster? My understanding from the little I've read about this over at www.smallnetbuilder.com is

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:04 AM, John Martz wrote: Apparently my early 2008 white MacBook does *not* support 40 MHz bandwidth, only the default of 20 MHz. This surprised me. That may need the $1.99 update you had to buy. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-15 Thread John Martz
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Bruce Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: That may need the $1.99 update you had to buy. I don't think so. Mostly because as far I know 802.11n support for this version of the MacBook was baked in when it was released. It was released at the beginning of

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-14 Thread starrfarr
Well, it's all done as Dan suggested. It was easy and works beautifully. It's much faster than when using my old Ximeta NDAS drive and I'm going to get a hub and add a second drive. The dialup connect still works with the airport menu icon as before (except on my G4 desktop which is hard wired

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-14 Thread Dan
At 4:36 AM -0700 7/14/2009, starrf...@valley.net wrote: Well, it's all done as Dan suggested. Great! It was easy and works beautifully. It's much faster than when using my old Ximeta NDAS drive and I'm going to get a hub and add a second drive. Please let us know how the 11n performs with the

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:02 PM, starrf...@valley.net wrote: Thanks for lots of interesting replys. They were more than interesting, they were correct, from people who know what they're doing. I'm not sure what I'll do. What you SHOULD do is what they told you to do, it's the simplest

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-13 Thread John Martz
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Bruce Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Does anyone know if a usb modem would work in the usb port of the Airport Extreme n? No it wouldn't. The USB modem is a 'softmodem', like a Winmodem; it relies on the computer host's CPU to do the work. In

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 13, 11:44 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:02 PM, starrf...@valley.net wrote: I'm not sure what I'll do. What you SHOULD do is what they told you to do, it's the simplest   workable solution to solve your problem. And to understand why Dan

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread Dan
At 6:50 AM -0700 7/11/2009, starrf...@valley.net wrote: I'm thinking about buying an Airport Extreme N to use its ability to mount usb disks. (According to a detailed review, it can mount multilple usb disks through a hub. Has anyone tried this?) Problem is, I need a dial-up modem. Currently I

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote: Don't NAT your NAT. Use the AEg as your WAN connection. Plug the ARn into your LAN, as you would any wired computer. Disable NAT and DHCP in it. Then you can connect to the ARn's wi-fi, and it will route you out thru the AEg,

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread John Martz
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Al Poulinalfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: And here is Apple's  Setup Guide: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AirPortExtreme_802.11n_UserGuide.pdf and Apple's Design pub for the latest model:

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Dan wrote: Don't NAT your NAT. Use the AEg as your WAN connection. Plug the ARn into your LAN, as you would any wired computer. Disable NAT and DHCP in it. Then you can connect to the ARn's wi-fi, and it will route you out thru the AEg, with the AEg

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread Dan
At 1:31 PM -0400 7/12/2009, John Martz wrote: If it's the same device it sounds as though it can handle some heavy lifting. Supposedly able to handle up to 50 802.11g clients simultaneously? Yea, umpteen clients no problemo. But if x% of those clients do anything serious? ROFLMAO. ...Not a

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread starrfarr
Thanks for lots of interesting replys. I'm not sure what I'll do. Does anyone know if a usb modem would work in the usb port of the Airport Extreme n? Apparently you can connect multiple drives and printer(s) using a usb hub. If a modem would work it might solve my problem. Rich On Jul

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-12 Thread Dan
At 8:02 PM -0700 7/12/2009, starrf...@valley.net wrote: Does anyone know if a usb modem would work in the usb port of the Airport Extreme n? http://support.apple.com/kb/SP20 http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/airportn/ The Airport Extreme 802.11n does NOT support dial-up PPP. The WAN support is

Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-11 Thread starrf...@valley.net
I'm thinking about buying an Airport Extreme N to use its ability to mount usb disks. (According to a detailed review, it can mount multilple usb disks through a hub. Has anyone tried this?) Problem is, I need a dial-up modem. Currently I use a disk shaped Airport Extreme g with a built in

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-11 Thread Chance Reecher
You can simply plug your older AirPort into the N AirPort's WAN port, and set the N AirPort to get it's internet connection through DHCP. Chance On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM, starrf...@valley.netstarrf...@valley.net wrote: I'm thinking about buying an Airport Extreme N to use its ability to

Re: Airport N + dialup?

2009-07-11 Thread John Martz
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Chance Reechercnrtechh...@gmail.com wrote: You can simply plug your older AirPort into the N AirPort's WAN port, and set the N AirPort to get it's internet connection through DHCP. While I am not hands on familiar with either of these AirPort routers, the