Airport Extreme + Modem etc....

I set it up from fresh. Put it on bridge mode, PPPoE, put in your ISP stuff, and that's it. Very easy. Left everything else as it was I think, the network's now quite happily sitting, dual band. All my Macs were on 2.4ghz at first, connected my iPhone and they all moved to 5ghz.

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I was having real trouble with my network before, it was dog slow. It appears that the Home Hub was the cause of it all, or some conflict of settings or whatever. End result, Home Hub out, Vigor in = network fast again :)

Transmit rate previously was 36 if I was very lucky.
 
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PPPoE on the AEBS? I've always used that on my modem.

P.s. have a look at my 10.6 server thread in software if you would :)
 
The Vigor doesn't hold any settings at all for your ISP, the AEBS just uses it to connect.

From what I gather (I'm not huge on net/network stuff, not much knowledge at all really), the Vigor is very very simple and completely transparent. I couldn't believe how small it was, it was half the size I expected.
 
Just had a look at that now, looks good.

So how do you know your ADSL sync speed and stats?
 
My what now?

Is that to do with the ISP? All that is set up, there's a few ISPs (o2, bethere and someone else) for whom you need to mess about with it, but all the others work out of the box.
 
Say you want to check how fast your connected to the internet, or if your line is getting errors or losing packets, you'd usually go to the default router IP and check the stats..

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Looking at the Vigor, it looks transparent.. so which device actually manages the connection to the ISP?
 
I don't know :(

I've literally been no use to you at all today :D

All the settings for the ISP (username and password and so on) are entered in Airport Utility and go on to the AEBS, it literally just uses the Vigor to make the connection. The more techy stuff is I believe on the Vigor and if you use one of the ISPs that use MPOA you connect to the Vigor by ethernet to change it, there's instructions in the box.

Would Network Utility do it? I don't know if this is just local or what:

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All I know is that it works very well, and has none of the problems I had when there was a homehub in the mix and they didn't want to play together nicely.

I also don't know if that network address will let you hide in my internets either, so.. don't please
 
I used to have it set up as 'forced' dual networks, so in my list I'd have two separate networks - Mynetwork and Mynetwork (5GHz).

When payday rolled around this month I knew I was getting the Vigor, and because my network had been total crap for reasons unknown to me, I decided to read about how to set it up properly. One guide I found pretty much said leave it on the settings it gives you and it'll be dual band out of the box, so I did that.

I have one network to connect to, and at first they were all reporting 2.4GHz, then when I connected my phone the machines seemed to move to 5GHz. I don't know if that was because I connected the first non-N device, or coincidence, or what, but they're doing it on their own - are yours not?

Now I checked just now and it's on 2.4GHz and transmit rate is showing at 26. My signal strength is quite low too (performance is fine but I'm not doing transfers across the network, only internet so it doesn't mean much). I don't really know the ins and outs so I couldn't tell you why. I might look into splitting the networks again, but I'm going to keep an eye on it and see if it moves back to 5GHz or what.

I've just moved a big file to my Airport Disk to see what it does, how fast it goes. If it's really slow (which it is right this second) I'll look into forcing it back to 5GHz, but I want to keep it simple if I can.
 
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Right so further to my network speed dropping drastically, I went and re-found out what I found out before - alt-clicking the dropdown for radio mode gives you bags more options.

This page is very good for explaining it all, seeing as Apple don't really explain it at all:

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10125

I've now set it back to a 5GHz and a 2.4GHz network - if a machine's on the 5GHz it won't swap to 2.4 unless told, and non-N machines can't see that network. Obviously 5GHz is much better for interference and free channels as well. Transmit rate has shot back up now it's forced to stay on 5GHz.

Still got loads to learn but picking it up slowly.
 
Thread resurrection! :)

I am now looking into buying an airport extreme, I'm a little disappointed that it does not have a modem built in given the asking price, but hopefully the other features will make up for it.

Any current recommendations for a modem?

Thanks in advance :)
 
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