After learning my Xbox 360 cannot connect to my Time Capsule wirelessly, I've decided to purchase a new Airport Express (802.11n), hoping to simply plug my Xbox into the ethernet port of the Express. Can the new Airport Express be used to share the wireless signal from my Time Capsule to a "wired" client, such as my Xbox 360?
Thank you, in advance, for your help.
I have an 802.11n base station and just tried switching from the older 802.11g express to the newer 802.11n express as a wireless bridge to my xbox 360. The newer express does not work. It does however stream music to my stereo without the echo effect of the older airport express (The computer speakers would be playing the song slightly ahead of the streamed music, with the new express they sync perfectly).
Thank you for the response Duane. I am looking forward to using your advice when my Airport express arrives next week. Meanwhile, while searching for information on this issue, I found the following quote from CNET's recent Review of the new AE, "the AirPort Express also has only a single 10/100 Ethernet jack. That's fine, since the AirPort Express isn't intended to accept any client systems wired directly to it." On another discussion forum I read, "Unfortunately, whilst this can be achieved with most wireless extenders, the ethernet port on the Airport Extreme is only designed to connect to a cable/dsl modem/router and not to act as a bridge to other equipment." Why is there such confusion? Is this a problem only when dealing with third party hardware?
Thanks. I have the AEBS and the new express. The old Express works as a wireless bridge to my Xbox just fine. The new one does not. The Xbox trouble shooter says the MTU test failed and that I need to adjust the MTU on my router. I feel a little dumb for running out and buying the unit 1 day after it's release without checking here to see that others are having the same experience.
I main two uses for the express are streaming music and providing a connection for my xbox. The only reason for buying the new one was the impending purchase of a new mac that would make all my macs "n" speed.
So the old airport express definitely works as a wireless bridge to the xbox 360 but the new one does not? Just want to be clear before I go search for leftover inventory of the non-N version.
This was true in my case. I had the older version (G,B,A) and decided to bet the new N express and it just stopped working. The old express worked like a charm. This was also the case when I firts got extreme (N). An apple update late fixed that. I hope they come out with an update soon to fix this issue. Very frustrating.
After much futzing I finally got it to work this weekend...kind of.
Here's what I did.
Set up a WDS network between the airport extreme (Main hub of the WDS) and the express.
Basically named em "home network 1" and "home network 2".
Get that working, then plug your xbotch into the express. (or use the wifi adapter)
All works pretty fine after that. Except for one tiny problem. You have to disable all wireless security in order for it to work. So right now both my networks are hidden, but I'm not quite happy with that solution so I might just end up running 200 feet of cat 5 cable across my house to my xbox from my extreme and throwing the express in the trash.
Thanks for the pointer but I think I'll keep waiting for an update. I don't feel safe having my network open... even if it is hidden. What I've done for the time being is changed my Airport Extreme to be 2.4GHz N,B,G. I originally had it to where Extreme was set for "N only" at 5GHz and Express at 2.4GHZ for all other devices such as the iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360 and older computers.
If you're putting your express at 2.4 you might as well put them both on 2.4 since N only runs as fast as the slowest device on the network.
EG, iphone and macbookpro on the same network, even though the mbp supports N speeds, the router will only give it G speeds because the iphone is connected.
Actually, I had 2 different networks running at the same time. I created 5GHz network for the Macs and AppleTV for much faster wireless file transfer, wireless time machine, and streaming videos in AppleTV. The 2.4 GHz network was created for everything else. It was set as 2 different networks so they had different names and logins. Express was connected to the Extreme via ethernet for internet access. AppleTV and file transfers were a lot faster as 5GHz. Here is a previous forum that explains what I've done.