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Upon arriving at school last semester I had high hopes of setting up wireless communication between my laptop, apple tv, and airport express. My express is hooked up to my DAC, which then outputs to a tube buffer, which then outputs to the receiver. I tried and tried but could never get the **** thing to work given that the wifi network at my school does not allow routers.
I tried registering the airport express' mac address a hundred times with the school network and nothing. Last night I revisited the issue and managed to solve the problem. All I did differently was give the network the wired MAC address as opposed to the wireless one. This created a separate wifi network stemming from my airport express. Upon logging onto the new wifi network, I realized I had no access to the internet but could finally achieve device to device communication. I was able to sync my apple tv wirelessly and of course utilize AirTunes. When you try and browse the internet you can't but all the AirTunes stuff works.I am just curious as to what exactly is going on?
Is the network basically not allowing the router to provide internet access? It's not really a problem, I just switch over to my standard wifi network when I want to use the network, but it's strange having a wifi network which will allow airplay and device to device communication (syncing) but not internet. IF anyone could explain to me what's happening technically I would be much obliged.
I tried registering the airport express' mac address a hundred times with the school network and nothing. Last night I revisited the issue and managed to solve the problem. All I did differently was give the network the wired MAC address as opposed to the wireless one. This created a separate wifi network stemming from my airport express. Upon logging onto the new wifi network, I realized I had no access to the internet but could finally achieve device to device communication. I was able to sync my apple tv wirelessly and of course utilize AirTunes. When you try and browse the internet you can't but all the AirTunes stuff works.I am just curious as to what exactly is going on?
Is the network basically not allowing the router to provide internet access? It's not really a problem, I just switch over to my standard wifi network when I want to use the network, but it's strange having a wifi network which will allow airplay and device to device communication (syncing) but not internet. IF anyone could explain to me what's happening technically I would be much obliged.