Airport Extreme As Wireless Extender

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Airport Extreme As Wireless Extender

Hey There , I need ur help please

i am planning on purchasing a time capsule however i have a huge house. now i dont want to purchase an airport express due to its 10 users limit and i want a wireless extender that extends my network wirelessly without cables. so
1) Will i be able to use the airport EXTREME as a wireless extender for my TIME CAPSULE?
2) how many airport EXTREMES can i use to extend my coverage Wirelessly NO CABLES?
for example i want 3 airport extremes to extend my time capsule wireless coverage..will i be able to use more than one unit for the extending?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 19, 2008 11:22 AM

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Duane

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Oct 19, 2008 6:20 PM in response to at004

1) Will i be able to use the airport EXTREME as a wireless extender for my TIME CAPSULE?

Yes

2) how many airport EXTREMES can i use to extend my coverage Wirelessly NO CABLES?
for example i want 3 airport extremes to extend my time capsule wireless coverage..will i be able to use more than one unit for the extending?

3 shouldn't be a problem.

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at004 Author

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Oct 20, 2008 8:16 AM in response to Duane

thank you for your answer but are you 100% certain that i can use 3 airport extreme as wireless extenders since i dont want to waste my money:S

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Duane

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Oct 20, 2008 8:57 AM in response to at004

As I said 3 shouldn't be any problem.

Be aware that if you are forced to use 802.11g's WDS, each WDS link cuts your available bandwidth in half.

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at004 Author

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Oct 20, 2008 11:36 AM in response to Duane

thanks for ur swift reply but i did not understand what u mean. can you please explain!

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Duane

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Oct 20, 2008 12:31 PM in response to at004

If your wireless clients are 802.11g, you will need to configure the Time Capsule and AEBSs to operate in 802.11g mode. This will force you to use WDS to wireless extend the network.

In a WDS network, all the base stations use the same channel which means that none of them can broadcast while any of the other are broadcasting.

If you need to use the Time Capsule and 3 AEBSs linked via WDS, you will have 3 WDS links. This means that your available bandwidth will be 1/2 1/21/2 = 1/8 of what would be available without WDS.

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