I'm trying to set up an airport express to extend the range of my house internet which. For some reason I am unable to do this. Are there any better instructions other than the rather perfunctory ones that came with the airport express?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Let's start with the basics first.
The AirPort Express can only "extend" the range of a wireless network wirelessly if it is used with another Apple AirPort router.
What is the make and model number of the wireless router whose signal you are trying to "extend"?
Let's start with the basics first.
The AirPort Express can only "extend" the range of a wireless network wirelessly if it is used with another Apple AirPort router.
What is the make and model number of the wireless router whose signal you are trying to "extend"?
That would be the problem, I am simply using a regular old netgear router. So is there anything I can do or is this airport express now craigslist fodder?
Thanks!
The AirPort Express won't help you unless you can connect it to the Netgear router using a permanent Ethernet cble connection.
Hopefully, you can return it to the store for credit.
Netgear does offer some devices that will "extend" their routers, so you might want to take a look at that to insure compatibility. Something like this, for example:
I am using a device that plugs into my wall power outlet from the router which sends the signal through my home power lines. I have a second device which then picks up the signal and ports it out through an ethernet cable. The device is called pluglinnk by asoka. I was using it to connect to a internet ready blue ray device that was in the part of the house that doesn't get a strong wireless signal and it functioned normally. I assumed it was as good as pluging into the router directly but perhaps not. The airport express sees the netgear network and says that it is connected. I get the green light on the airport utility, I just don't see the airport express router. In fact the whole network seems to slow significantly. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!
It's really tricky to get devices from different manufacturers to work together well.
Try starting over and configuring the AirPort Express to "Create a wireless network" and use the same wireless network name and password that the main Netgear router is using.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Netgear router handy here to test to see if this might work.
That worked! I thought about trying that but figured they computers would get confused and walk over themselves. So far so good so thanks a bunch!
Nate
Sounds like you got things going there. Nice work.
setting up an airport express to extend the range of home wifi
