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This is suspicious, the computers should not be getting IP addresses in this range if they are behind the DHCP server that the Airport Extreme is providing. The computers should have IP addresses that are in the 192.168.x.x range or the 10.0.x.x range. I'm wondering if there is something on the DSL end of things that the provider has messed up and as such the DSL router is the device that is sharing an IP address. Check each of the computers and see what IP address they are being assigned, you can find it under the network tab in the preferences pane.
Okay, tried DCPs suggestion and was online with one laptop; went to try to other and had to start over again and then got this message from this laptop: "192.168.0.100 in use by d8:a2:5e:8c:72:e2"
Also, the internet seems to be ping-ponging on and off via airport right now with this laptop.
Drew, after setting IP manually via DCP's suggestion, it says "AirPort is connected to [Mom's network] and has the IP address 192.168.0.100." It was assigning a crazy other thing before.
Oops, double post. Drew, if you love me enough to play tech support over skype, you can call my phone, but isn't it dawn over there?
I AM A TECH GODDESS. Which is to say that I screwed around with everything long enough to figure out what was wrong and have reconfigured everything and it is working working working and way faster than before! Huzzah!
Long story short, figured out that Mom has had the ethernet connected to the LAN port on the Airport rather than WAN for a gazillion years, so I'm amazed the problem took this long to rear its ugly head. Once I switched the cable, I set everything back to automatic DHCP (DCHP?) to make the DSL happy, reset the Airport using Airport utility, rebooted the modem and Airport, and voila! Fixed and working and finding nice little IP addresses that actually work now. And since I updated the firmware from 5.4 to 5.7, it's even faster! Did I mention HUZZAH?
Sorry for hijacking the thread. Back to lurkdom I go.
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Look at Pix being all Tech Goddess! I guess ND has rubbed off on ya.
Question for y'all. Anyone play with AT&T MicroCell?:
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Aww man, Google Voice isn't available in China. Oh well!
OK. Picking upy iPhone at the store rather than getting it delivered was a big, big mistake.
