Mac Forum / General / Networking / April 2006

I have an Airport Extreme base station (firmware 5.7) connected via
ethernet between my cable modem and a Windows XP desktop. From the
airport I am running another PC desktop, Xbox and Powerbook G4
Titanium. I have been running this configuration for several years.

Here's the issue. I came home and my network wasn't connecting. I
bypassed the Airport Extreme basestation and went directly from my
cable modem to the compute via ethernet. The connection was
re-established. I then reconnected the airport. Went through a dozen
"powering offs" of both the cable modem and the airport. I updated the
firmware (to 5.7). I established a connection form the Airport Admin
(on the main PC) to the base station, but I still can't connect to the
internet. The Local Network connection says its connected but my PC
can't see the internet. I've repaired the connnection several times (on
PC).

What have I forgot? I can see the airport from my Powerbook; It looks
like my Linksys gateway on my xbox sees the airport;, but the local
computer can't connect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.