12-02-2009, 11:26 PM
I have an Airport extreme that I am abot to set up, but before I open the box, I still have some questions (it was in impulse buy, but I wanted one for a long time anyway).
does it support VPN, DynDNS (or another dymamic service), does it allow me to see the USB drive from work (I assume I have to use VPN to get in).
Also, is it easy to customize, can I set up port forwarding and NAT and other stuff like that?
right now I have a weird network setup
Cable Modem -> Voip_1 -> Router (Wifi) > Voip_2
and of course, some WiFi devices. I have both VOIP_1 and Router with DHCP enabled (a big NO NO as far as I understand) and despite that, I can still get iChat video connections working properly, but screen sharing only works when I connect the MacBook directly to the cable modem.
I hope with the Apple Extreme Router I would be able to connect something like this:
eventually I will disconnect VOIP_2 after I port the number to OOMA, but then I may get a VOIP_4 to replace my verizon landline (again, don't ask why I have so many VOIP phones)
does it support VPN, DynDNS (or another dymamic service), does it allow me to see the USB drive from work (I assume I have to use VPN to get in).
Also, is it easy to customize, can I set up port forwarding and NAT and other stuff like that?
right now I have a weird network setup
Cable Modem -> Voip_1 -> Router (Wifi) > Voip_2
and of course, some WiFi devices. I have both VOIP_1 and Router with DHCP enabled (a big NO NO as far as I understand) and despite that, I can still get iChat video connections working properly, but screen sharing only works when I connect the MacBook directly to the cable modem.
I hope with the Apple Extreme Router I would be able to connect something like this:
Cable Modem > Apple Airport Extreme > VOIP_1
> VOIP_2
> VOIP_3 (ooma, Don't ask why 3 VOIP phones!)
> ROKU
> BluRay Player
etc
eventually I will disconnect VOIP_2 after I port the number to OOMA, but then I may get a VOIP_4 to replace my verizon landline (again, don't ask why I have so many VOIP phones)