I have only one choice for (semi) high speed internet at my home in the countryside...DSL from Bell Canada. My home network consists of an iMac, Mac Book Air and iPod Touch.
The DSL Modem originally provided by my ISP was a Siemens Speedstream 4200. This worked fine with the Airport Extreme until I decided to use a password for security reasons. After trying for literally days to get my network up again I gave up.
Apple Canada sent me a new Airport Extreme, Bell Canada sent me another DSL modem, ( Speedstream 5200, piece of crap, used...), and then they finally sent me a Gateway 2Wire modem/router, which was new out of the box.
I am able to get my network running using the Gateway modem/router but cannot get the Airport Extreme to work with it.
The reason I think (?) I want this is the Gateway is only 'g' and the Airport is 'n'...My thinking is that I am loosing some file transfer speed within my network by not having the faster (?) 'n' Airport Extreme running my network.
Is this right and is there a was to use the Airport Extreme downstream of the Gateway modem/router?
Jim
The DSL Modem originally provided by my ISP was a Siemens Speedstream 4200. This worked fine with the Airport Extreme until I decided to use a password for security reasons. After trying for literally days to get my network up again I gave up.
Apple Canada sent me a new Airport Extreme, Bell Canada sent me another DSL modem, ( Speedstream 5200, piece of crap, used...), and then they finally sent me a Gateway 2Wire modem/router, which was new out of the box.
I am able to get my network running using the Gateway modem/router but cannot get the Airport Extreme to work with it.
The reason I think (?) I want this is the Gateway is only 'g' and the Airport is 'n'...My thinking is that I am loosing some file transfer speed within my network by not having the faster (?) 'n' Airport Extreme running my network.
Is this right and is there a was to use the Airport Extreme downstream of the Gateway modem/router?
Jim