Airport Extreme question

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influenzainfluenza
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
This question is twofold.



Fold number one:

Is my Quicksilver G4 tower (800 MHz) compatible with an Airport Extreme base station? If so, can the tower connect to the base station and a cable modem at the same time.



Fold number two:

Supposing that the answer to the above is yes, would my PowerBook (with Airport Extreme card) be able to wirelessly utilize the tower's cable internet connection.



Apple's site really needs a diagram that details how this all works. Their descriptions are rather ambiguous.



Thank you.

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    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    It's really pretty simple stuff. The Airport Base Station (ABS) is a router. Routers take a network connection and distribute it to a bunch of computers. So you plug your cable modem into the ABS, and then attach all your computers to the ABS. The ABS has a LAN plug for attaching one computer via an ethernet cable. Hook that into your Tower. Your PB will talk to the ABS through its Airport card. In fact, a whole bunch of computers could hook into the ABS via Airport simultaneously.



    Cable modem - (ethernet) -> ABS



    Powerbook <- (wireless) - ABS - (ethernet) -> PowerMac
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