I Bought a Mac - Latest Comments in Setting Up An Airport Network

Re: Setting Up An Airport Network

Brent — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:03:30 -0000

David,

I believe 'join' will just make it a access point. I used mine in this mode for my XBOX 360 to connect to my network as well as playing stuff through my stereo. Extend does just that. Takes your WiFi signal and extends it further. For those with large areas to cover with a WiFi signal.

I think that's it... anyone want to correct me if I'm wrong?

Re: Setting Up An Airport Network

David Carrrington — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:21:24 -0000

On a different but related subject: I bought a Time Machine, which set up great and has subsequently worked perfectly. But I live in a big old apartment and needed to extend coverage away from my study to the living room, on a different floor and bought two Expresses to do so. Set them up but then they kept dropping out, flashing orange lights, couldn't see them on the Airport Utility, etc. But then I called them completely different names, as per your tutorial, and gave them different passwords too. Problem solved! One thing though - instead of getting them to "join a network" I selected "Extend a network" - what's the difference?

Re: Setting Up An Airport Network

Paul Erickson — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:05:27 -0000

Write them and suggest it. Sometimes the most obvious ideas get overlooked. "Power to the people!" and all that. :)

Re: Setting Up An Airport Network

Brent — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:55:59 -0000

I don't see why they wouldn't either. It does make perfect sense for sure. The express does have it's handy uses though, like having the Extreme in a completely different location than your home stereo system and the travel perks (wireless in a hotel). But I do agree, having AirTunes in the Extreme router would make a lot of sense.

Re: Setting Up An Airport Network

Jeremy Salter - a work in prog — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:51:19 -0000

Brent, do you think that they will integrate these two products at any point? I'm kind of holding out on buying the new Extreme because I really want it to have the AirTunes feature...personally, I don't see why they wouldn't combine them...