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Set up Airport Express and third-party wireless
Authored by: Mucho Grande on Mar 10, '05 10:16:11AM

I have had no end of trouble trying to get Express do what I thought it would do. I thought I could use it to join my wireless network, and use the ethernet port of Express to get on to the network with a wireless machine. I should have read the fine print. I have also tried this hint, but it didn't work for me, I'm using a Belkin 54G Wireless ADSL Modem/Router.

I think your Wireless hub needs WDS for this to work.



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Set up Airport Express and third-party wireless
Authored by: uuilly on Mar 10, '05 11:11:28AM

Per accessing the ethernet port of airport express from a machine w/o wireless. (Is that what you meant?)
You can do this. I'm not in front of a mac right now, but if you open up the airport express in the airport admin utility, and carefully go through all the menus you'll see an option to enable ethernet accesss. Or somthing along those lines. Plug your machine into the port and if the airport express is on the network, you'll have interent access. Hope this helps.



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Set up Airport Express and third-party wireless
Authored by: chris_on_hints on Mar 10, '05 12:18:09PM

In the small print, it says that if you get your express to join another network, it will disable the ethernet port.

So you CANT use the express as a multi-function wireless access point to give a non-WiFi computer access to an airport (or 3rd party) network.

Shame.



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Set up Airport Express and third-party wireless
Authored by: Dunkin on Mar 10, '05 07:13:34PM

Yes the Express can bridge between wireless and wired either (or both) ways.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108038#2

Question: Can AirPort Express act as a bridge?

Answer: AirPort Express can act as a bridge in three different ways:

If you have an existing wired network, it can bridge this network to wireless clients.
If it is set up as a WDS remote or relay station, it can bridge the wireless network to wired clients.
If it is set up as a WDS remote or relay station, it can bridge the wireless network to wireless clients (or "wirelessly extend" the range of the network).

WDS only works between Apple products (Express and Extreme).

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Please, not again.



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Set up Airport Express and third-party wireless
Authored by: StevenRiggins on Jun 11, '05 07:53:55PM

Airport Express can WDS to a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft firmware:

http://vafer.org/blog/tcurdt/archives/000184.html

I am doing this at home as well.

http://www.geeksrus.com/archives/000679.html



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