How to set up Airport Express?

I bought the Airport express to extend my wireless network. Does the Airport express need to be connected to an ethernet cable to reproduce Wi - Fi ? I thought it reproduced it wirelessly...

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 10:05 AM

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Nov 11, 2013 10:40 AM in response to Mayk72

Sorry, but unfortunately you will not be able to use the AirPort Express to extend the Speedtouch wireless gateway. At least not with a wireless connection between them as they are not compatible for these feature.


However, if your networking goals can support a wired connection they can both be configured for a "roaming" network which effectively does the same thing as an extended network.


The other option is to get a second AirPort Express. You then have two choices:


  1. Connect the first Express to the Speedtouch by Ethernet, and then, configure the second Express to extend the first's wireless network, or
  2. Configure the first Express to join the Speedtouch's wireless network. Connect the second Express to the first via an Ethernet cable. Configure the second Express to broadcast a wireless network. This would similar to a roaming network but you would not need an Ethernet connection between the Speedtouch and the first Express.

Nov 15, 2013 2:33 PM in response to Mayk72

So before i go on to buy a second airpot express, I went to the service manager and asked for a new modem, the new brand is a broadtech ADSL2+8186-V2 from ELTEL group.

Will this be compatible to make the single Airport Express?

Sorry, but no. You can only extend another Apple router with AirPort Express ... so by changing to another non-Apple product you will still have the same incompatibility issue as before.

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