Disabling secutiry on Airport

I just got in an (original) Airport which I am testing to see if it gives
any greater output than my Buffalo or Netgear or Dell WiFi transmitters (is
it OK to use that simple term in the 21st Century?).

I have the cable modem linking in to the Netgear WiFi unit but a hard wire
going out of that into the Airport next to it and wanted to test both next
to each other, presumably on different channels to see which of them will
go most effectively through my walls to the various devices in my apartment.

Unfortunately somehow the Airport has got security enabled on it directly
when it is connected. I can see the netgear, the airport and a few
neighbour's WiFi networks in SCAN WIRELESS.

Is there a standard way of resetting the Airport to defaults or entering
something on the screen such as 192.168.11.1 (and if so, can I get the IP
address of the airport without knowing the security code?)

(I can do a scan on this network situation with either a PC or a Mac)

In article <YfudnTv_uMFxKELfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>, news.rcn.com wrote:

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> Is there a standard way of resetting the Airport to defaults or entering
> something on the screen such as 192.168.11.1 (and if so, can I get the IP
> address of the airport without knowing the security code?)


<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58613>

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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:49:14 -0400, "news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com>
wrote:

>Is there a standard way of resetting the Airport to defaults or entering
>something on the screen such as 192.168.11.1 (and if so, can I get the IP
>address of the airport without knowing the security code?)

Airport Admin Utility for Windoze.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120273
It will "find" your Airports MAC address, temporarily assign an IP
address if DHCP is off, and allow you to reset it.

Instructions for doing a hard reset if you forgot the password:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120273
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58613


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"Jeff Liebermann" > Airport Admin Utility for Windoze.
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120273


Any idea what I can do if this driver specifically says that it doesn't work
with the original Graphite airport (whose software and description says that
everything on it including resetting it should work with Windows)?

Put another way, am I banging my head against abrick wall if Apple dont
want me to use this unit with Windows and have deleted the Windows driver
from their site if this is the case?

I also have a slightly later Netgear WiFi router (transmitter) and a new
802.11G Buffalo one neither of which will go through the two thin walls in
my flat 25 feet to my NIC cards (which pick up signals from neighbours
networks up to hundreds of feet and numerous walls/floors away)

Is there any evidence that the Airport has any greater range than these?
"news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Liebermann" > Airport Admin Utility for Windoze.
>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120273
>
>
> Any idea what I can do if this driver specifically says that it doesn't
> work with the original Graphite airport (whose software and description
> says that everything on it including resetting it should work with
> Windows)?
>

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:06:07 -0400, "news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com>
wrote:

>"Jeff Liebermann" > Airport Admin Utility for Windoze.
>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120273

>Any idea what I can do if this driver specifically says that it doesn't work
>with the original Graphite airport (whose software and description says that
>everything on it including resetting it should work with Windows)?

It's not a "driver". It's an "admin utility" which is used to setup
an Airport using a Windoze computah instead of an Apple computah.

If this is unacceptable, try one of the other Windoze Airport setup
utilites:
http://www.macwindows.com/airportpc.html#software
Methinks they were scribbled for the original Airport Basestation.

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AE6KS 831-336-2558

Many thanks: I will try Freebase although for some reason, the problem I am
having is that a factory hard reset won't get rid of the password which also
seems to be stopping all other software from getting into the set up of the
airport or using any "admin utility" to query or set up the Airport

> It's not a "driver". It's an "admin utility" which is used to setup
> an Airport using a Windoze computah instead of an Apple computah.
>
> If this is unacceptable, try one of the other Windoze Airport setup
> utilites:

OK I know when I am beat so I have connected the Airport to a G4 with a
crossover cable and wanted to try to install the whole admin utility from
the Mac running Panther. Is there a file I can download to the G4 for the
original graphite Airport which I can then install onto that Airport which
might cure (meaning overwrite) the password which STILL seems to be on the
Airport? In order to press the reset button with a crossover cable
connected and reinstall the admin utility, do I need to have the G4
configured to any particular IP address or DNS (as set out on 58613)? (or,
he asked quietly, is all this done at OS level in Panther itself without
downloads? And if so, how?)

One other point, The reason I am asking this is that I am actually using my
Netgear WiFi router to connect my PC and G4 to the internet. Should I be
able to pick up a signal from the airport when the airport isn't actually
connected to the Internet? At the moment all I want to do is to reset it
and reinstall the software on it. (The G4 is nowhere near my Cable Modem).