Q: Airport Express as Access Point
I currently have my Airport Express set to extend the wifi network created by my Airport Extreme Base Station but the distances are stretching its capability and degrading signal.
What I've done previously is use a Powerline Adapter and connect the AE to that by ethernet cable, but the issue then was that I couldn't see how to maintain the same wifi network name ie if my Extreme Base Station network was called Net1, I would have to call the AE's network Net2, and then there would be just enough Net1 signal that devices would have to be switched from one network to the other, which became a pain. The instructions for setting up the AE as an access point say that it has to be configured to create a wireless network, so it makes sense that it would have a different name.
So my question is what am I missing, how can I configure the AE so that it is part of the original Net1 network rather than creating its own Net2 network.
Thanks
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Posted on Aug 15, 2016 11:53 AM