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Can AE be used with third party router to do this....
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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I have now a spare AirPort Extreme base station that I want to use like an access point.
What I have is a wireless router with a WEP password on it giving out wireless internet.
I then have a older G4 that has no airport card and as have a spare AE basestation I want to get my AE to connect to my main router with wireless and then feed ethernet from the AE into the G4.
Now this all seems easy to do with WDS in the AE but the problem I have it all is set as I think it should be but when I add the main router into the list it does not ask me for the WEP password that is in the router... I assume it's not working because I cant set the WEP password that the router uses.
Can it be done.
R
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by Raymate 
I have now a spare AirPort Extreme base station that I want to use like an access point.
What I have is a wireless router with a WEP password on it giving out wireless internet.
I then have a older G4 that has no airport card and as have a spare AE basestation I want to get my AE to connect to my main router with wireless and then feed ethernet from the AE into the G4.
Now this all seems easy to do with WDS in the AE but the problem I have it all is set as I think it should be but when I add the main router into the list it does not ask me for the WEP password that is in the router... I assume it's not working because I cant set the WEP password that the router uses.
Can it be done.
R
Easy solution: Sell the AE for $75, and buy two Linksys WRT54G routers at $50 ea. Then flash a BIOS on there (pick from half a dozen) and use WDS to associate them and presto, you're in business. Much easier than using the AE, and it's also vastly better documented.
That said, if you remove WEP, can you get anywhere? Remove all security, minimize all setup steps and see if you can get it going, then add security and complexity bit by bit. Does the main router fully support WDS?
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally Posted by foo2
Easy solution: Sell the AE for $75, and buy two Linksys WRT54G routers at $50 ea. Then flash a BIOS on there (pick from half a dozen) and use WDS to associate them and presto, you're in business. Much easier than using the AE, and it's also vastly better documented.
That said, if you remove WEP, can you get anywhere? Remove all security, minimize all setup steps and see if you can get it going, then add security and complexity bit by bit. Does the main router fully support WDS?
Yes if the code is removed it works . but people always jump wireless . so the only way to stop slow down from other jumping your network is a code 
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