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Using Airport Express to extend airport extreme wireless network
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<blockquote data-quote="Vicstart" data-source="post: 1402888" data-attributes="member: 250078"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>As with many others this is my first post. I have looked at many of the other posts with similarly titled subjects but felt it best not to highjack someone else's issue.</p><p></p><p>I live in the UK in a very old (1601) building where the walls are solid stone and very thick. My existing wireless router could not penetrate the walls to i upgraded to a BELKIN 802.11 n router but this did not help. I then purchased my first iMac and decided to upgrade to a Airport Extreme (hoping this may help). I did not realise that the Extreme still required connection to a DSL router/modem so i still needed the BELKIN router. Suffice to say the wireless network was not better. Back to APPLE to look at the Airport Express. It states that this will extend a wireless network however despite following all the instructions my express does not appear to extend the network one iota. What have i missed please?</p><p></p><p>Setup is as follows:</p><p></p><p>BELKIN DSL router connect by ethernet to Airport Extreme.</p><p></p><p>BELKIN wireless is OFF.</p><p></p><p>Extreme setup is: </p><p></p><p>Status: Normal</p><p>Version: 7.6.1</p><p>Wireless Mode: Create a wireless network</p><p>Wireless Network Name: OCH_Network</p><p>Channel: 100 (automatic), 6 (automatic)</p><p>Wireless clients: 4</p><p>Connect using: ethernet</p><p>IP address: 192.168.1.4</p><p></p><p>Express setup is:</p><p></p><p>Status: Normal</p><p>Version: 7.6.1</p><p>Wireless Mode: Extend a wireless network</p><p>Wireless Network Name: OCH_Network</p><p>Channel: 100 (automatic)</p><p>Wireless clients: 2</p><p>Connect using: wireless network</p><p>IP address: 192.168.1.9</p><p></p><p>The room in which the express is still has a very poor wireless signal. I am not a complete novice when setting up home networks but this has me stumped. All help gratefully received.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vicstart, post: 1402888, member: 250078"] Hi, As with many others this is my first post. I have looked at many of the other posts with similarly titled subjects but felt it best not to highjack someone else's issue. I live in the UK in a very old (1601) building where the walls are solid stone and very thick. My existing wireless router could not penetrate the walls to i upgraded to a BELKIN 802.11 n router but this did not help. I then purchased my first iMac and decided to upgrade to a Airport Extreme (hoping this may help). I did not realise that the Extreme still required connection to a DSL router/modem so i still needed the BELKIN router. Suffice to say the wireless network was not better. Back to APPLE to look at the Airport Express. It states that this will extend a wireless network however despite following all the instructions my express does not appear to extend the network one iota. What have i missed please? Setup is as follows: BELKIN DSL router connect by ethernet to Airport Extreme. BELKIN wireless is OFF. Extreme setup is: Status: Normal Version: 7.6.1 Wireless Mode: Create a wireless network Wireless Network Name: OCH_Network Channel: 100 (automatic), 6 (automatic) Wireless clients: 4 Connect using: ethernet IP address: 192.168.1.4 Express setup is: Status: Normal Version: 7.6.1 Wireless Mode: Extend a wireless network Wireless Network Name: OCH_Network Channel: 100 (automatic) Wireless clients: 2 Connect using: wireless network IP address: 192.168.1.9 The room in which the express is still has a very poor wireless signal. I am not a complete novice when setting up home networks but this has me stumped. All help gratefully received. [/QUOTE]
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