Q: Will my 8 year old Airport Express work as a wifi bridge to provide an ethernet port for a wired device? In other words can I use my airport express instead of running another ethernet cable? I use an Airport Extreme as my wireless base station.
Will my 8 year old Airport Express work as a wifi bridge to provide an ethernet port for a wired device? In other words can I use my airport express instead of running another ethernet cable through the house? I use an Airport Extreme as my wireless base station and it covers the whole house so there is plenty of wifi signal in the room where I need the Ethernet port. I need the ethernet port to plug in a new Denon AV receiver but I want to avoid drilling holes etc.
Any suggestions?
Kind regards,
Steve
Airport Express (8 years old), Ethernet extender?
Posted on Apr 12, 2012 9:09 PM
The older 802.11g AirPort Express Base Station (AX) does NOT support reconfiguration as a wireless Ethernet bridge like the newer models. Apple calls this configuration a ProxySTA.
The only option to enable the Ethernet port on your model would be to configure the AX with another AirPort base station into a WDS.
Posted on Apr 13, 2012 9:11 AM