Airport Extreme in Bridge Mode for HD Homerun to join network wirelessly

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Airport Extreme in Bridge Mode for HD Homerun to join network wirelessly

I want capture over the air TV shows via an HD Homerun and store these shows on my mac mini. My current situation in my home makes it very difficult to install a wired ethernet network. I am thinking about adding a wireless ethernet bridge with a an airport extreme or other brand to bring the HD Homerun into the network. I currently have an airport extreme bas station as my router plugged into a cable modem. The mac mini and an imac 1gz and mcb are also wirelessly on the network. I am wondering if this wireless bridge would be adequate to handle the transfer of over the air video to the macmini. Anyone tried this type of thing?

Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 12, 2011 6:28 AM

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Tesserax

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Apr 12, 2011 8:11 AM in response to tfrankm

Hello tfrankm. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

In order for the AirPort Extreme to perform as a wireless Ethernet bridge, it would have to be configured to extend a wireless network provided by another AirPort or Time Capsule. Only the 802.11n AirPort Express Base Station (AXn) can be configured as a wireless Ethernet bridge (Apple calls this ProxySTA) by joining a wireless network created by any manufacturer's wireless router or wireless access point.

Unfortunately, the ProxySTA feature offers the lowest bandwidth performance. The following would be the typical throughput performance based on the AXn's configuration on the 2.4 GHz band:

o Wired-to-wireless (Default configuration as a wireless router): 85 Mbps
o Wireless-to-wireless (AXn configured to extend another AirPort or Time Capsule) : 33-39 Mbps
o Wireless-to-wired (ProxySTA configuration): 26-35 Mbps

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