{"id":1025,"date":"2021-09-22T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?page_id=1025"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:55:12","slug":"airport-base-station-no-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/airport-base-station-no-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Base station without using a Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s how one reader successfully set up their Airport Base station without using a Macintosh!
\n(Thanks to Helen Plotkin of\u00a0Mathforum\u00a0(Helen@mathforum.com) for this information!)<\/p>\n

I’ve got a desktop PC, with two Ethernet cards, running Windows 98. I’ve got a cable modem plugged into the first Ethernet card on that PC. I’m running WinRoute Lite 3.0 (http:\/\/www.winroute.com\/) on that PC to make it act as a NAT router. The second Ethernet card on that PC is set like this:<\/p>\n

IPAddress ‘192.168.0.1’
\nIPMask ‘255.255.255.0’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From that second Ethernet card, I have a cable running to the first port on an Ethernet hub. My Apple Airport is connected to one of the ports on the ethernet hub. I downloaded the\u00a0Karlbridge Configurator software version 3.54\u00a0and used it to set the Airport Base station like this:<\/p>\n

IPAddress ‘192.168.0.10’
\nIPMask ‘255.255.255.0’
\nGateway ‘192.168.0.1’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve got a laptop PC with a Lucent WaveLAN\/IEEE card set to these properties:<\/p>\n

IPAddress ‘192.168.0.11’
\nIPMask ‘255.255.255.0’
\nGateway ‘192.168.0.1’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is another desktop PC on my hub, and it uses DHCP to get its IP address dynamically, but I could not get my Airport or laptop to work that way.\u00a0My laptop is set to use the DNS servers supplied by my cable company.<\/p>\n

So there it is. It works. No Mac needed to configure the Airport.<\/p>\n

\n

For information on setting up\u00a0Airport Express, you can read\u00a0Simon Brown’s weblog\u00a0which also works as a how to guide. You can also get information on Airport Express & Windows from this\u00a0Notebook Review forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s how one reader successfully set up their Airport Base station without using a Macintosh! (Thanks to Helen Plotkin of\u00a0Mathforum\u00a0(Helen@mathforum.com) for this information!) I’ve got a desktop PC, with two Ethernet cards, running Windows 98. I’ve got a cable modem plugged into the first Ethernet card on that PC. I’m running WinRoute Lite 3.0 (http:\/\/www.winroute.com\/) on that PC to make it act as a NAT router. The second Ethernet card on that PC is set like this: IPAddress ‘192.168.0.1’ IPMask ‘255.255.255.0’ From that second Ethernet card, I have a cable running to the first port on an Ethernet hub. My <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}