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This post in Macintouch: Wireless Networking (Part 23) talks about a user connecting his airport express to an existing wireless router. Apple’s specs say you have to use an Apple Airport Extreme base station. So, what’s the truth? I would love another beacon in my home, but don’t want to give up the firewall that comes with my current router….comments welcome on this one.
Here is my understanding from Ars Technica: You can use your AE in one of two modes: 1. As a WiFi Client, or 2. As a Wifi Bridge.
As a client your AE is a consumer of WiFi from your base station just like your PowerBook (i.e. like iTunes Sharing). As a Bridge your AE repeats the signal of your Base Station and serves as its own little Base Station to which your PowerBook connects.
This version of AE uses a system called WDS to do the bridging. This technology is not Apple-specific but is not widely supported at this time in base stations other than Apple Airport Extreme, and some Linksys G routers. Therefore to avoid confusion Apple states that bridging can only be done with Apple Airport Extremem base stations. Ars Technica was able to get it to work with a Linksys G router with the latest firware upgrade.
As a client you should be able to use AE with any 802.11b/g router.
Unless you need to extend your WiFi coverage, I would recommend using it as a client.
You can’t have it all when you have a ghetto base station that doesn’t support WDS!
Wireless used to be so easy, now you have to be a network engineer? Firewalls, routers, bridges, switches…I feel like I need to go on a 2 week retreat to visualize my home network.
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