[P1] Cable Modem and Airport

[Paul Bernhardt]

It does!

All these responses have been helpful. They have built confidence that 
it is pretty easy and even if there is a problem it should be overcome 
reasonably easily.

so, I'm fired up!!

Paul

On Jan 29, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Charles Pearce wrote:

>
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Paul Bernhardt wrote:
>
>> That would be correct... I am interested in any and all advice on all 
>> aspects of the road I'm preparing to walk. What are the common 
>> problems you see?
>>
>> I am anticipating that I'll have to treat the Airport's MAC address 
>> as the "computer" for the Cable Modem, and it will distribute 
>> information to the other machines.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Here's the setup I have at home:
> World (Cox Cable)<---->Cable-modem<--->wireless router 
> (D-Link)<---->Desktop G4.
>
> The <---> indicates wire. To the wireless router connects 2 or 3 
> computers, depending on whether my iBook is home or not. The other two 
> computers connected to the wireless router are both eMacs with an 
> Airport Extreme card in each. My iBook just has standard Airport. I 
> went wireless first because of the iBook, but then we moved and I 
> didn't want to have to run wires all through the house (been there, 
> done that, hate it). So far, the wireless solution has been seamless. 
> Occasionally (like every couple of months) I've had to reset the 
> router by turning it off and then back on, but that's been the only 
> issue. We had a power failure the other day due to ice and when 
> everything came back on, the eMacs connected right to the router. 
> Since even 802.11b is faster than cable modems, I've never noticed any 
> kind of speed degradation on the wireless machines.
>
> If you're not sure how this works, it goes like this: The modem gets 
> an IP from the ISP's DHCP server. Usually this is NOT a static IP, 
> although the lease is often long. The cable modem reports its MAC 
> address to the ISP (I had to take the modem to the office so they 
> could scan it in). The router acts as its own DHCP server and dishes 
> out dynamic IPs to whatever device comes up on  it. My G4 is connected 
> to it by ethernet cable and is hardly ever off, so it generally gets 
> the first IP in the range. As other devices connect to the router, it 
> gives them IPs. The range is  generally four or five numbers. The 
> router, itself, has an IP that you use in a browser to connect to it 
> in order to configure it. It took me less than a half-hour to 
> configure it  the first time out of the box. To set up the computers 
> (either wired or wireless), use the TCP/IP pane and tell it to accept 
> dynamic IPs from a DHCP server. That's pretty much all there is to it. 
> Might even work on a Dell (or whatever that other thing was).
>
> Hope this verbose response helps.
> Charles Pearce <charlesp at ksu.edu>
>
>
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