I have just recently moved into a new apartment complex that uses WiFiFee (
www.wififee.com) to broadcast free WiFi service throughout the entire community (even at the pool!
). Although the service is great, I have run into two problems.
1.) I have an AirPort Express base station connected to a computer and a printer in the living room. I initially wanted to have the Express rebroadcast its own secure wifi network, so that I could set up my own littl enetwork for all of my devices in my apartment. I quickly found out that the Express will only rebroadcast if it is linked with an AirPort Extreme that is already connected to the internet. Unfortunately, I no longer have the Extreme, as I thought I would no longer need it. The apartments do not have ethernet hook ups in them so I cannot out and buy a new Extreme, plug it up, and rebroadcast my own private, secore network with the Express. So with that said, does anyone know of anothe rmethod I could go about. Keep in mind, buying a cable modem and a router, or an AirPort Extreme is out of the question, as there is not a built in ethernet port, and Time Warner Cable will not run one to the apartment. I do not believe the Extreme will connect to the WiFiFee network in client mode, and then allow me to link the Express so that I can set up my own network. So again, with that said...any ideas??
2.) In addition to th Express, I also have an AppleTV connected to my 42" Vizio in the living room. In my bedroom, I have a MacBook Pro with an external HDD connected. The HDD stores a pretty good amount of movies, which I stream to my Apple TV in the living room on a regular basis via iTunes. Now, it appears that the connection is not strong enough to stream video video from my macbook in the bedroom, to the apple tv in the living room. I tried last night and it was a very, very slow process. All of my computers, and devices pick up about 3-4 different signals from any part of my apartment. So I tinkered around, and I ended up isolating the strongest signal, switched everything to that one network, and still nothing. I ended up doing a simple file transfer from the computer to apple tv instead, and it was CRAWLING! Interestingly enough, however, when downloading a movie form the iTunes store on AppleTV directly - its pretty snippy . In addition, while downloading any file on any of my computers/devices its pretty snippy in general. So I am not quite sure what my options would be at this point. I guess, in the end, I would like to be able to set up my own private WAP in the apartment, off of the existing WiFiFee network in my community, with the ability to stream movies from anywhere in the apartment, via AppleTV. Any ideas? Would love to hear some feedback...Thanks!
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