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Extend Network with Airport Extreme & Express

I am trying to extend the range of a wireless network from one house to another about 80 yards away. I have an Airport Extreme Base Station (ABES) and an Airport Express (AX) which is supposed to accomplish this. I found some instructions in the forums that walked me through configuring WDS. That was easy enough, however, when the AX restarts it doesn't come back up in the Airport Utility. It will come up if I do a hard reset on the AX. The ABES continues to show a WDS error and displays a flashing amber light.

What am I doing wrong? How do I fix this issue?

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 11:38 AM

31 replies

kfetty

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12 points

Jan 9, 2010 11:16 PM in response to Bob Timmons

Hi Bob,

Actually I saw another of your suggestions to factory default reset on the Airport Express and I did that on only one, and now everything is as before strong -- averaging 70's+. In addition the transmit speed is hovering between 250 and 270 which is good as you mentioned in that same post.

All is well again -- the new modem was the culprint -- Happy New Year and thanks again.

Karen

Extend Network with Airport Extreme & Express

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