Extending my Airport Network

[stereo247]

I stay in a double story. My Imac and Time Capsule are upstairs. I bought a Airport Express hoping I could extend the wireless network to down stairs - no such luck. The Time Capsule signal can't transfer through the slab.

So I've run a cat 5 cable downstairs. If I connect it to the AE and TC things go MAL! I loose my internet connection and cant seem to access my AE to change its settings.

Any ideas if this even possible? If so how do I do it?

 

[dekana]

i suggest learning about WIFI networks and buying linksys WRT instead to extend your network.

 

[koffiejunkie]

@dekana: don't be an ass

@stereo257: The Airport Express is a DHCP server out of the box. Connect to it via the Airport Uitility (connect it directly to your laptop if you can't find it on the network). You want to look at two groups of settings in particular:

Internet --> Internet Connection --> Connect Using: Ethernet
Internet --> Internet Connection --> Connection Sharing: Off
Internet --> TCP/IP --> Configure IPv4: Using DCHP

Hit update - this will reboot the Airport Express. Then configure it to be a wireless access point:

AirPort --> Wireless --> Wireless Mode: Create a wireless network
AirPort --> Wireless --> Wireless Network Name: This is the SSID - you can set it the same as the one upstairs, with the same encryption and password. Just set it to a different channel.

I've been running mine like this for about a year now - works just fine.

 

[surfs-up]

@dekana: don't be an ass

+1 and kudo's for helping

 

[koffiejunkie]

@dekana: don't be an ass

+1 and kudo's for helping

Lol, and I didn't even get sensored

What annoys me is that dekana's advice won't even help one bit. If the time capsule's 802.11n 5GHz can't cut through his concrete, the Broadcom 802.11g chip in the Linksys don't stand much of a chance.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Aah, I see the latest models Linksys WRT do support 802.11n and the top of the range ones do 5GHz too. But geez, look at the price...

 

[stereo247]

Thanks a mil Koffiejunkie - worked a charm.
Dekana - don't become a marriage counsellor
"...well see mr Abrahams if you just forget about your current wife, you can get another one that's just as full of it and gives you the same uphill. It's just gonna cost you another divorce, about 40 dates and a wedding..."