Network setup, help needed

sam235 · May 30, 2011

Hello all, i was wondering if the airport extreme would work as a bridge from the main wireless router(the one that came with verizon)the reason is i want to connect my External HDD and my PS3 to it, so i can back up stuff from my pc and macbook, the reason why i cannot replace the main router is cuz its not my house

, so the AP extreme would act like a wireless bridge with a different encryption? or if that cant be done would this work
Internet<<Ethernet>>Verizon router<<Wireless>>Airport Express<<Ethernet>>Airport extreme>>Ethernet>>Computers and hard drive
thank u all so much

bobtomay · May 30, 2011

Should be able to. I use a Time Capsule (which has the AExtreme). I run 100' ethernet from the main router to the TC in bridge mode so that the primary router still does all the DHCP duties even for the 2nd wifi network.

I did try this via wifi as an experiment a couple of years ago as a test and was able to get it working. I couldn't list the exact steps I used any longer, but seems it wasn't all that hard to do.

BrianLachoreVPI · May 30, 2011

sam235 said:
Hello all, i was wondering if the airport extreme would work as a bridge from the main wireless router(the one that came with verizon)the reason is i want to connect my External HDD and my PS3 to it, so i can back up stuff from my pc and macbook, the reason why i cannot replace the main router is cuz its not my house , so the AP extreme would act like a wireless bridge with a different encryption? or if that cant be done would this work
Internet<<Ethernet>>Verizon router<<Wireless>>Airport Express<<Ethernet>>Airport extreme>>Ethernet>>Computers and hard drive
thank u all so much

It looks like you're actually trying to use an Airport Express as a wireless bridge to the Verizon router - which, to the best of my knowledge, will not work. The Express can only be used that way with other Airport devices.

osxx · May 30, 2011

I am using the AEBS as a wireless bridge with Uverse because of the architecture of Uverse it can't be set in bridge mode and it works fine you still get all the settings available you just let their router/modem distribute ip's.
WIRELESS MODE - CREATE A WIRELESS NETWORK
INTERNET CONNECTION - CONNECT USING ETHERNET
CONNECTION SHARING - OFF ( BRIDGE MODE )
TCP/IP - CONFIG IPv4 - USING DHCP

Network setup, help needed

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