airport express with fritz box fon wlan

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airport express with fritz box fon wlan

Hello everybody,

does anyone know if "Fritz!Box Fon WLAN" from AVM, Germany work with the Airport Express Station properly? I have heard with WEP it probably would work.

Moreover, the woman in the apple store in Munich told me my Router needs to be compatible with WDS.

Here is the link to download the German manual.

http://www.avm.de/de/Service/Handbuecher/FRITZBox/Handbuch_FRITZ_Box_Fon_WLAN.pd f

Thanks & Greetz,

Michael

Airport Express-OTHER

Posted on Mar 25, 2013 2:12 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 25, 2013 6:28 PM in response to michaelFlehingen

Sorry, I cannot answer your specific question, but can point out some information that might be useful.

WDS was never adopted as an official industry standard, so compatibility among manufacturers....even if the product might say that it supports WDS.....is not very likely.

There are only a very few devices that are known to be compatible with Apple's implementation of WDS. This list has appeared a number of times in publications and on the Internet:

3com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router model 3crwdr100a-72 but ONLY with NO encryption
Belkin F5D7230-4 and F5D7231
BT Voyager 2091 or 2100
Buffalo WGR-G54
Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS (not latest versions v5)
Netgear WGR614 v6
Thompson 585v6 wireless router (40 bit WEP works but other encryption does not)

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Answer 2

VicFurth

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May 19, 2013 8:18 AM in response to michaelFlehingen

I have a FritzBox 7340 and managed to get it all working following Bob's instructions on

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4098522?start=0&tstart=0

In addition to that I enabled WDS in the FritzBox setup (WLAN.WDS menu).

Next I added the Airport Express as repeater in the repeater list box as a wireless repeater using the MAC address of the Airport express

In the WLAN Radio Channel menu I have chosen a fixed radio channel and disabled select radio channel automatically. hope this helps

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