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AirPort Express Help!!!
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Hi guys,
I have just purchased an AirPort Express to solve these problem for me. However, I am not too sure if I've got everything right or not.
Firstly, I have an iBook with a old version of Airport card which works great in my mothers house. However, it seems the reception of wireless in my landlord's room is not so great, I often don't get any reception or just very unstable 1 or 2 bar. After a chat with a guy in the Apple shop, he sugguest me to use AirPort Express as a bridge between my landlords wirless ADSL modem and my iBook. It seems that according to him, I don't have to do anything expect plug that AirPort Express on to the wall, and it would just work.
I took his advice, but it seems that amber light on the AirPort Express was keep flashing. Same result returned when I connected a cable from that ADSL wirless modem to the AirPort Express.
can some one please tell me what I need to do to get it work as a bridge? I really just want that AirPort Express to plug into a wall and without any cable, can that be done?
Thanks guys
Cheers
Nathan
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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You have to go in to the setup and tell it to act as a bridge.
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Hi there,
Thanks for you help. But I am not sure how you can do that. I am using a Mac with 10.3.9, can you give me bit more detail on how to do it please?
cheers
Nathan
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iMac 24 Inch, 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 640 GB Hard drive, 256 MB NVIDIA
iPhone4 32GB Black
1TB Time Capsule
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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OK, bridge mode is NOT correct for this application.
What you want is a wireless repeater. Whether you can do this depends on whether your landlord uses an Apple access point or not, because Apple only supports repeating when the main base station is an Apple one, too. (The technology in question is called WDS, for Wireless Distribution System. Unfortunately, WDS between hardware from different vendors seldom works.)
tooki
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