First of all, merry Christmas and happy New Year to all!
I'd very much appreciate some advice with the following problem. For about a year I have had a flatscreen iMac and internet connection via a Speedtouch 510 router to the ADLS service provided by Pipex (I'm in England by the way). This set-up has worked great.
Yesterday Santa brought the family a new iBook and an airprt base station. Prior to putting this on my list I checked with Pipex that it should work with their service, the answer was "Yes but we don't support it" - this is OK as I believe this is their standard answer regarding any hardware nor actually supplied by them.
I followed the instructions in setting everything up, it all seems to be OK except that I can't access the internet!
If I plug the ethernet lead from the router directly into the iBook I can get onto the internet no problem. When the lead is plugged into the airport base station, the Internet Connect utility on the iBook reports that all is OK regarding Airport, the signal is strong, and it reports the status as "connected to the internet via ethernet". However, I can't access any internet sites, and it seems that the airport base station isn't connecting to the router as I can't even surf to the router's build-in set-up site. I've tried rebooting everything (computer, airport base station and router) many times, I've repeated that Airport set-up procedure, and I've also tried disabling the network ports for the modem and ethernet, leaving only Airport (as recommended in a previous post here) but nothing has worked.
I'm stumped, and would really appreciate any advice on this.
I'd very much appreciate some advice with the following problem. For about a year I have had a flatscreen iMac and internet connection via a Speedtouch 510 router to the ADLS service provided by Pipex (I'm in England by the way). This set-up has worked great.
Yesterday Santa brought the family a new iBook and an airprt base station. Prior to putting this on my list I checked with Pipex that it should work with their service, the answer was "Yes but we don't support it" - this is OK as I believe this is their standard answer regarding any hardware nor actually supplied by them.
I followed the instructions in setting everything up, it all seems to be OK except that I can't access the internet!
If I plug the ethernet lead from the router directly into the iBook I can get onto the internet no problem. When the lead is plugged into the airport base station, the Internet Connect utility on the iBook reports that all is OK regarding Airport, the signal is strong, and it reports the status as "connected to the internet via ethernet". However, I can't access any internet sites, and it seems that the airport base station isn't connecting to the router as I can't even surf to the router's build-in set-up site. I've tried rebooting everything (computer, airport base station and router) many times, I've repeated that Airport set-up procedure, and I've also tried disabling the network ports for the modem and ethernet, leaving only Airport (as recommended in a previous post here) but nothing has worked.
I'm stumped, and would really appreciate any advice on this.