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<blockquote data-quote="duncanwil" data-source="post: 1633875" data-attributes="member: 341560"><p><strong>update!</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks pm-r and as a non technical person, you can imagine I thought I had dotted every i and crossed every t!!</p><p></p><p>My hardware is Apple AirPort Express Base Station (MC414Z/A) and here is how I can best describe my set up.</p><p></p><p>I live in the sticks and have had an aerial erected outside my house to capture wifi signals from a base station a few miles away. That aerial then sends the signal down a cable to a box called a switching mode power supply in my house that has two ethernet sockets: one labelled POE that comes from the aerial and one labelled LAN that goes to the router. From there, the wifi signal goes around my house so that I can surf the web, watch tv, send email and so on. That is, my network</p><p></p><p>The router I am currently using is NOT an apple router and it works but it seems to leak speed as I mentioned earlier. I don't know how or why it does that but it seems to.</p><p></p><p>So last night I took down that router and plugged in my Apple base station to the LAN ethernet cable on the switching box I mentioned. I want to set up my household wife network to carry out the above tasks but I failed.</p><p></p><p>As I worked through the Apple air port utility, it asked me for addresses like 192.168.100.0 etc that I was given when the aerial etc was installed but the names they used were not the same as the ones I was given by the air port utility. For example, I was given these names by my wifi provider:</p><p></p><p>WAN Network</p><p>Network</p><p>Gateway</p><p>DHCP Release</p><p>DNS 01</p><p>DNS 02</p><p></p><p>And since I cannot get this utility to let me change anything now, I cannot tell you the names they use. Anyway, I am confused as to which address is which.</p><p></p><p>In summary, I would like to plug my Apple base station into that LAN ethernet socket and for it to set up a household wifi network for me and that's it.</p><p></p><p>I hope that is better but I will answer any more questions if I can.</p><p></p><p>Duncan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="duncanwil, post: 1633875, member: 341560"] [b]update![/b] Thanks pm-r and as a non technical person, you can imagine I thought I had dotted every i and crossed every t!! My hardware is Apple AirPort Express Base Station (MC414Z/A) and here is how I can best describe my set up. I live in the sticks and have had an aerial erected outside my house to capture wifi signals from a base station a few miles away. That aerial then sends the signal down a cable to a box called a switching mode power supply in my house that has two ethernet sockets: one labelled POE that comes from the aerial and one labelled LAN that goes to the router. From there, the wifi signal goes around my house so that I can surf the web, watch tv, send email and so on. That is, my network The router I am currently using is NOT an apple router and it works but it seems to leak speed as I mentioned earlier. I don't know how or why it does that but it seems to. So last night I took down that router and plugged in my Apple base station to the LAN ethernet cable on the switching box I mentioned. I want to set up my household wife network to carry out the above tasks but I failed. As I worked through the Apple air port utility, it asked me for addresses like 192.168.100.0 etc that I was given when the aerial etc was installed but the names they used were not the same as the ones I was given by the air port utility. For example, I was given these names by my wifi provider: WAN Network Network Gateway DHCP Release DNS 01 DNS 02 And since I cannot get this utility to let me change anything now, I cannot tell you the names they use. Anyway, I am confused as to which address is which. In summary, I would like to plug my Apple base station into that LAN ethernet socket and for it to set up a household wifi network for me and that's it. I hope that is better but I will answer any more questions if I can. Duncan [/QUOTE]
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