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Q: Setting up a WDS network  with airport extreme and express

I am trying to implement this setup as described in apples web site http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4262 with no luck. I have one airport extreme and two airport express units trying to make a WDS network using the extreme unit as the main and the two airport express as the relay and the remote units, however I can not make them work together. Whenever I setup the main I am not able to comunicate with the internet and the other units will not connect. Does anybody know if there is a problem with what I wan to accomplish

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Posted on Jan 22, 2012 4:31 PM

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Q: Setting up a WDS network  with airport extreme and express

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  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Jan 22, 2012 6:21 PM in response to gduchate
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    Jan 22, 2012 6:21 PM in response to gduchate

    Apple's setup instructions in the link that you posted are correct.

     

    It's easy to make a mistake when you are trying to setup 3 different devices like this, so be extra careful and check each step as you go.

     

    It will sometimes help to have a second set of eyes watching as you go since there are a lot of numbers and letters to be entered into the setup, and they must all be correct.

     

    Expert user Tesserax has also posted instructions for the WDS setup using a "main", "relay" and "remote" . Perhaps those will help as well. Check this link:

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2422028?threadID=2422028&tstart=0