Not really a hack because using the WAN & LAN ports this is simple to do if merely being used as a router, to share Internet with all wired + swich/hub and wirelessly connected computers. A call from a fax comes in, after a specified number of rings, the Extreme answers, recognizes a fax machine on the other end, accepts an incomming fax and prints it to a printer shared over the usb port.Ģ) The Answering Machine Hack - again, the concept is simple, the implentation is impossible? A call comes in, after a specified number of rings the Extreme answers, and if it doesn't recognize a fax machine or computer on the phoneline, it plays an audio greeting from a connected machine and it dumps the incoming audio to another wired or wireless computer that is set up to log/save the recording.ģ) The Network Bridge Hack - this one, at least, really works. Network bridging (thanks to its dual ethernet jacks), the version with a modem can be called over a phoneline by a computer, and it can share up to 5 printers via its USB port.ġ) The Fax Hack - simple to explain, no idea how to implement: turn the Extreme into a fax.

The Extreme has a few neat things built in.

Any mention of Extreme in this post will refer to the older, saucer airport, with 802.11b/g, with or without modem, with or without Power over Ethernet (PoE). Your Airport is only correctly refered to as 'Extreme-n.' Its a little late for accuracy, as by now any mention of 'Airport Extreme' almost exclusively refers to the new Extreme-n, and I and others are quite lost and abandoned. People like you have buried nearly any possibility of people like me finding any available hacks for our true, proper Airport Extreme Basestations. If you saw the topic and were hoping to see something about your new 802.11abgn Airport Extreme-n Basestation, shame on you.

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