Bridging 2 Airport Extreme

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Bridging 2 Airport Extreme

I have a pair of original Extremes the one one that is 10/100. My access point in the sitting room does not cover my bedroom. I did pre-cable my house with UTP during renovation but I added in my Apple TV again model 1. I am able to interconnect all via 802.11n with binding of channel to get a higher throughput. However it is very unstable and the 802.11n drops very often.

Can I use the UTP of the 2nd Airport Extreme as bridge mode connecting to the sitting room. That way I can use the 2nd Airport Extreme as a bridging hub via wired to have a more stable connection.

I can do it by connecting Airport Extreme (1) to another Linksys in my bedroom over UTP to achieve this. My 2nd Airport is lying idle. I would like to remove that Linksys and put in that 2nd Airport Extreme. Is that possible? I tried various parameter on the 2nd Extreme and it seems to work only with 802.11n to bridge the network.

Did It do it wrong?

MAC Book Core Duo 2.0Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 11, 2008 11:39 PM

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Duane

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Mar 12, 2008 8:06 AM in response to cclliu

You can connect the 2 AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) via Ethernet. Simply configure the 2nd AEBS to act as a bridge so that it is not distributing IP addresses.

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cclliu Author

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Mar 12, 2008 6:19 PM in response to Duane

Let me try that. I think I did but it was not working before. I am doing that for my Linksys that way to bridge into the core Apple Airport Extreme.

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DonH49

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Mar 14, 2008 4:33 AM in response to cclliu

two apple extreme N routers> connect first with second thru ethernet if possible> second must be set for bridge mode> you can then (assuming you have N capable Macs) set the first to N only connection and the second to b/g(assuming you have b/g Macs).

you can connect other devices like HP laserjet by ethernet to first or second for 24/7 networked printing, vonage by ethernet for phone, Express(create its own network) by ethernet to connect wireless to remote xbox360 or Wii and Apple TV to connect to first Apple N router for speed to upload video.

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cclliu Author

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Mar 17, 2008 5:15 AM in response to DonH49

Thank you.......

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Mar 17, 2008 2:18 PM in response to DonH49

So, are you saying that 2 Airport Extreme 802.11n devices cannot be bridged except through ethernet cable? For six months or so, I had 2 Airport Extreme 802.11n bridged along with an older AirPort Extreme 802.11g. The second Airport Extreme 802.11n was set as a relay. All worked fine until recently when the power went out and I had to reboot them. I think I did a software update at the time (can't recall, now) and I can no longer get them to work. It makes little sense to me to run ethernet cable between 2 "ns"...I might as well just hardwire everything. Should I be able to bridge 2 n basestations?

Thanks.

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cclliu Author

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Mar 17, 2008 9:07 PM in response to Jack Stenner

I do not remember what happened when i did that last year when the 1st set of Extreme came out of Apple stores. I tried to bridge them and it did not work then except via the 802.11. Now all I did was unplug my Linksys and put in the 2nd Extreme and it all connected immediately after all the latest firmware updates.

Looks like wasted 1 year of usage on my Extreme.

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