28/4/02 11:21, Ashley Butterworth, macbse@...

> 
> On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 11:18 , Bernie Wylde wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Hope someone can help me out here.
>> 
>> I've been using an Airport Base Station (ABS) for some time, connecting
>> with
>> the ISP via telephone line. However, I've just signed up for broadband
>> with
>> NTL (UK) and, it works fine when my PowerBook G4 (OS9.1) is connected
>> to the
>> NTL 'set-top box' via ethernet cable, but I can't seem to get it to work
>> with Airport.
>> 
>> Tried connecting the ABS to the set-top box with the same ethernet
>> cable,
>> changed 'TCP/IP Connect via' to Airport but not having any success.
>> 
>> Also, tried apple.com/support, knowledge base & discussions without
>> luck.
>> 
>> Has anyone had similar problems?
>> 
>> TIA
>> Bernie
>> 
>> P.S. I've not yet tried a factory reset on the ABS. Maybe this'll help.
>> 

> Hi,
> I haven't got airport but I have been looking into it for my home
> network but hopefully I can still be of some help.
> 
> Which version of the base station do you have? If it is the old
> version, with just the one RJ45 connector on it then you need to either
> use a hub or a crossover cable, otherwise if it is the new one, with two
> RJ45 connectors make sure that you plug it into the WAN port rather than
> the LAN port.
> 
> Hope this is some help,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ashley ~)~
> 

It's the old base station with the single ethernet port, I thinks they call
it 'graphite'.

NTL have supplied a crossover cable which I'm using.

I've since reset the base station but that doesn't help.

Thanks for trying, Ashley
Bernie