[Fishticky]

Hey,

I'm currently running a network with an airport extreme connected to the modem, which is wirelessly transmitting to a bunch of laptops throughout the house. There is also an airport express acting as a wds remote, which receives the signal from the airport extreme, and bridges it to its ethernet port (I am doing this so my xbox360 can receive internet).

Anyway, bonjour has tons of difficulty working during this setup (for example, when I try to connect to another person's itunes library, it detects the library, but sits there and never actually connects). I know it's the airport express remote that is causing this difficulty however, because when I unplug it, or even set it to restart, bonjour works perfectly until the unit is back up and running.

Does anyone know what the problem could be here?

My guess is that this has something to do with the fact that the 'network name' is the same for both the airport extreme and airport express, and that some items are connecting to different units, and this is causing problems, but I'm not really sure, especially because I think I heard the network name has to be the same for both in order for wds to work.

I can definitely provide more information about the network if necessary. Also, I am currently running the newest firmwares/software of everything, so out of date stuff is not the problem.

-Thanks

[wrambro]

I have a similar setup, the difference being that both of my access points have the same name. It used to run flawlessly, but recently one of my computer's iTunes libraries does the same thing that you described. I'm up to date on my updates as well, so I'm trying to figure it out.

[Fishticky]

Yeah, it's strange. I've been playing somewhat with the settings (such as trying different channels for the airport extreme and airport express), and it seems that sometimes I'll do something that will fix the problem, and then a few days later, it'll go back. If no one knows the solution to this problem, I'll probably spend a weekend and get it sorted out one of these days, but I'm really not looking forward to it.

[wrambro]

Yeah changing that channel is what worked for me. Although I had a lot of other devices around that could have been interfering with the signal. Then again, the computer with the troublesome library had no problem picking up the signal before or after the channel switch, so maybe it's not interference after all. Puzzling.