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Ok, first of all, I have been reading these past 4 days non stop about how to accomplish my goal (seen next). I have had mixed reviews on if I can do this or not. I figured I would just be a noob, suck it up and ask.
Goal: Use my 1TB time capsule as a wireless extender connected to the main Router/modem I have in house.
Setup. I have a rather decent size house so my Westell Router/ Modem in the studio downstairs does not reach all corners. I have the DSL coming into the studio and running into the Westell Wireless router/modem (Cincinnati Bell). The computer in the studio is a Dell XP. I have set up Airport on the Dell. I then I have the ethernet cable running from the Westell upstairs into the office where my Apple 1TB TC is. The cable is running into the WAN port (I have also tried the other 3 ports to no avail). My Macbook pro connects and backs-up wirelessly no problem and I also have managed to get wireless printing setup flawlessly to the 2 Macbook pros upstairs. That works fine. My goal is to get the wireless portion of the TC working so I can use wireless through the upstairs parts of the house and feed off of the TC.
When looking at internet preferences through Airport on both the Macs and the Dell I have the Bridge option set to the correction option. Now I just need to know how to turn on the TC wireless network, which I am having many Epic failures at doing. Is this even possible to do what I am asking or have I been beating my head against a wall for the past couple of days for no reason.
Summary: Run Westell modem/router to the TC and make TC give off another wireless signal for the 2 Macs upstairs.
Any help would be a godsend, or allah send or whatever entity you feel like inserting-send.
Goal: Use my 1TB time capsule as a wireless extender connected to the main Router/modem I have in house.
Setup. I have a rather decent size house so my Westell Router/ Modem in the studio downstairs does not reach all corners. I have the DSL coming into the studio and running into the Westell Wireless router/modem (Cincinnati Bell). The computer in the studio is a Dell XP. I have set up Airport on the Dell. I then I have the ethernet cable running from the Westell upstairs into the office where my Apple 1TB TC is. The cable is running into the WAN port (I have also tried the other 3 ports to no avail). My Macbook pro connects and backs-up wirelessly no problem and I also have managed to get wireless printing setup flawlessly to the 2 Macbook pros upstairs. That works fine. My goal is to get the wireless portion of the TC working so I can use wireless through the upstairs parts of the house and feed off of the TC.
When looking at internet preferences through Airport on both the Macs and the Dell I have the Bridge option set to the correction option. Now I just need to know how to turn on the TC wireless network, which I am having many Epic failures at doing. Is this even possible to do what I am asking or have I been beating my head against a wall for the past couple of days for no reason.
Summary: Run Westell modem/router to the TC and make TC give off another wireless signal for the 2 Macs upstairs.
Any help would be a godsend, or allah send or whatever entity you feel like inserting-send.