[l008com]

So one of my customers has an airport extreme G basestation connected to his cable modem. Then we have 3 airport extremes set up in a WDS network, so 4 total base stations. He gets great wireless coverage and lots of music and printers etc :-)

So he decided to buy the new n wireless base station to replace his g. For the live of me, I could not get WDS to work. The new Airport Utility seems nice, but its a bit awkward the way you keep having to switch it in to manual mode. But more importantly, there is no automatic way to set up all the bast stations. With the old utility app, i can configure the primary base station, then tell it to add all the others as WDS remotes, and the app will connect to all the units one by one and configure them all. This new one seems to have no such features. Plus with the new one, you seem to NEED to know the full MAC addresses of every unit. However even when I set them up manually like that, typing in the MAC addresses of the remotes on the primary, and the primary on the remotes, just as the manual says to do, I still could not get the primary to see any of the remotes at all. In the end we just switched back to the old G base station, configured all of the express units and were back up and running no problem, and he's going to return the airport extreme n

Has anyone else used WDS on the new basestations?

[mickeymac]

I got WDS going with one Extreme (n) and several Express boxes, but as you say, it's a little clunky. Everything was functional, but the lights on the Express units flash yellow for some unexplained reason. Overall, I like the new router and utility, but it does appear to need some improvement from Apple that can only come from real world deployment. My guess is that we'll see updated firmware and software in the near future to revise some of these minor issues. With a few fixes, I believe this will be a very nice networking device for many homes and small businesses.