Airport Extreme Setup Problems.. (Windows 7..)

[Chandler_90]

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

 

[encephalopathy]

how about letting the superhub do the dhcp and use the AE as a straightforward access point so

internet-----superhub (DHCP on)----gigabitswitch----AE (DHCP off) )))))) wireless to other-devices

i'm not familiar with AE but presume it should have an access point only mode

 

[Chandler_90]

I was going to try this but couldn't get the superhub out of modem mode..

The 192 address didn't work to get into the admin site..
Depressing the VM button for 6 seconds didn't work..
A pinhole reset didn't work..

I've powered the devices off today so I'm hoping that resets something..

But in theory I believe that might work!

 

[Chandler_90]

I was going to try this but couldn't get the superhub out of modem mode..

The 192 address didn't work to get into the admin site..
Depressing the VM button for 6 seconds didn't work..
A pinhole reset didn't work..

I've powered the devices off today so I'm hoping that resets something..

But in theory I believe that might work!

 

[ots3go]

You forgot the router / gateway? The superhub in modem mode is exactly that, a modem. You still need to be able to route traffic out of your network onto the internet and vice versa, you'll also need NAT.

I can also say you're getting DHCP errors as you were originally using the superhub as the DHCP server? You'll need a DHCP server somewhere on the network for DHCP to work.

You'll be able to find the superhub using 192.168.100.1 whilst it's modem only and change it back.

 

[Chandler_90]

Ok.. So if I simply turn off the wireless on the superhub and allow that to be the dhcp server..

Then connect a port from the superhub to the ae and a port to my pc.. That will then send Internet access to both the ae and the pc..

Then do I allow the ae to singular ip and then allow the superhub to dish out ips to the rest of the hardware connected wirelessly or do I set the ae to dish out the ips?

 

[ots3go]

Ok.. So if I simply turn off the wireless on the superhub and allow that to be the dhcp server..

Then connect a port from the superhub to the ae and a port to my pc.. That will then send Internet access to both the ae and the pc..

Then do I allow the ae to singular ip and then allow the superhub to dish out ips to the rest of the hardware connected wirelessly or do I set the ae to dish out the ips?

You should be able to assign the SuperHub a DHCP range to give out, for example 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.60. Turn the wireless off whilst it's in its normal mode and everything should be pretty much taken care of.

You'd then configure the AE to have a static IP that's inside the subnet, but outside of that DHCP assigned range. (No clue if the AE actually needs a static IP or if it'll be fine on a dynamically assigned one.)

DHCP will assign an IP address to devices which haven't been set up manually.