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I have spent a couple thousand dollars trying to figure out how to get my network to extend into the black hole of my kitchen/family room/ breakfast room. Long story short, I currently have an airport extreme in my office connected to a Motorola Surfboard SB6120. I tried to extend the network using the Express wirelessly plugged into a wall in my kitchen. This did nothing to improve connection. Then, I took the Express to the top of my stairs in my gameroom and hardwired it to a TCOM cable that is directly connected to my Extreme (I had an electrician run that a year ago with other routers). I turned the wireless option on the Express off to force it to connect with the TCOM (ethernet) to the extreme. My question is this. The Extreme and the Express have 2 different IP addresses. When I had two routers connected this way, I had them programmed to broadcast the same network, instead of having 2 competing networks. How can I get the Express to broadcast the same network as the Extreme? Can I manually change it? My iPad, MacBook, etc still connects to my named Extreme network, broadcasting from way back in the office. I don't think the wired Express is broadcasting same. Make sense????
I have spent a couple thousand dollars trying to figure out how to get my network to extend into the black hole of my kitchen/family room/ breakfast room. Long story short, I currently have an airport extreme in my office connected to a Motorola Surfboard SB6120. I tried to extend the network using the Express wirelessly plugged into a wall in my kitchen. This did nothing to improve connection. Then, I took the Express to the top of my stairs in my gameroom and hardwired it to a TCOM cable that is directly connected to my Extreme (I had an electrician run that a year ago with other routers). I turned the wireless option on the Express off to force it to connect with the TCOM (ethernet) to the extreme. My question is this. The Extreme and the Express have 2 different IP addresses. When I had two routers connected this way, I had them programmed to broadcast the same network, instead of having 2 competing networks. How can I get the Express to broadcast the same network as the Extreme? Can I manually change it? My iPad, MacBook, etc still connects to my named Extreme network, broadcasting from way back in the office. I don't think the wired Express is broadcasting same. Make sense????