Soldato
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- 13 Feb 2004
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I decided to make life simple the other day and buy a mac!
First stage of this plan was to get an Airport Extreme and get it setup at home to beam out my 50MB VM connection.
I had read that the R30 firmware update for the superhub allowed access to a "Modem" mode on the Superhub.. so rushed out to get a gigabit switch and some cat 6 cabling!
The way my network was to be setup is as follows -
Superhub in Modem mode for the main Internet connection in.
Connect the Superhub to a gigabit switch..
Run one cat 6 cable from the switch to my PC for wired Internet access and one cat 6 to the WAN port on the Airport Extreme..
And then I expected it all to work in unison.
It didn't.
Right now I have tried every single combination of the hardware I have and have had no luck at all in getting the AE to actually allow internet access.
The last attempt was a follows:
Superhub in Modem mode for the main Internet connection in.
One cat 6 from the Superhub to the AE WAN port
One cat 6 from a hub port on the AE to my PC for network access.
And still no Internet connection.
I even tried cat 5e cables just incase the cables were above standard (which I knew they were not but tried out of sheer desperation.)
My AE has the following settings applied, from memory:
DHCP is set to auto (But reverts to manual all the time???)
I have tried setting the AE to both supplying IP addresses for attached hardware (Which I believe is the correct setting) and have tried it using a singular IP..
I do not have a guest network available.
I have tried all three network ranges of 10.0, 172.16 and 192.168 without any luck.
I am also consistently getting a Beginning DHCP error and an Edning DHCP error on ranges..
I am lost.
I though apple hardware was supposed to be simpler.
I'm tired atm so may have left something out.. but I hope someone understands what I am saying here.
The really annoying thing is I can't get my settings without disconnecting the internet.. which means I can't post this!
Sick isn't the word.. please help lol
First stage of this plan was to get an Airport Extreme and get it setup at home to beam out my 50MB VM connection.
I had read that the R30 firmware update for the superhub allowed access to a "Modem" mode on the Superhub.. so rushed out to get a gigabit switch and some cat 6 cabling!
The way my network was to be setup is as follows -
Superhub in Modem mode for the main Internet connection in.
Connect the Superhub to a gigabit switch..
Run one cat 6 cable from the switch to my PC for wired Internet access and one cat 6 to the WAN port on the Airport Extreme..
And then I expected it all to work in unison.
It didn't.
Right now I have tried every single combination of the hardware I have and have had no luck at all in getting the AE to actually allow internet access.
The last attempt was a follows:
Superhub in Modem mode for the main Internet connection in.
One cat 6 from the Superhub to the AE WAN port
One cat 6 from a hub port on the AE to my PC for network access.
And still no Internet connection.
I even tried cat 5e cables just incase the cables were above standard (which I knew they were not but tried out of sheer desperation.)
My AE has the following settings applied, from memory:
DHCP is set to auto (But reverts to manual all the time???)
I have tried setting the AE to both supplying IP addresses for attached hardware (Which I believe is the correct setting) and have tried it using a singular IP..
I do not have a guest network available.
I have tried all three network ranges of 10.0, 172.16 and 192.168 without any luck.
I am also consistently getting a Beginning DHCP error and an Edning DHCP error on ranges..
I am lost.
I though apple hardware was supposed to be simpler.
I'm tired atm so may have left something out.. but I hope someone understands what I am saying here.
The really annoying thing is I can't get my settings without disconnecting the internet.. which means I can't post this!
Sick isn't the word.. please help lol
