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Q: Using a Airport Express extender with Xfinity Box?

I have been having issues with my Apple TV buffering playback of video content and stopping music in the middle of the song. These issues are very new. I never had any problems streaming videos or audio in my house until recently.

 

Originally I had an Airport Express at the computer and another one on the lower level of my house to extend the WiFi signal to the basement. I have since move on to a Xfinitiy Gateway box with built in WiFi. So could I somehow use the AE extender to extend the signal from the Xfinity box or does it have to come from the Airport Express to the extender onto my devices?

 

If I can use it, how would I go about setting it up? I asked a rep with Comcast on the phone and she seemed to think I would be able to extend the signal with the Airport Express but she didn't know how I would set it up. She just said to add it to my network.

 

Thanks

iMac, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Mar 26, 2014 6:59 AM

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Q: Using a Airport Express extender with Xfinity Box?

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  • by turbostar,

    turbostar turbostar Mar 26, 2014 8:17 AM in response to DVX100Shooter
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    Mar 26, 2014 8:17 AM in response to DVX100Shooter

    You can only extend off another Apple box, it will not work with Comcast

     

    If you still want both boxes, you'll have to put one next to the Comcast box in bridge mode, and then setup your 2nd to extend the 1st

  • by DVX100Shooter,

    DVX100Shooter DVX100Shooter Mar 28, 2014 8:46 AM in response to turbostar
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    Mar 28, 2014 8:46 AM in response to turbostar

    that sounds complicated lol. I will have to figure out how to do the whole bridge mode option.

  • by Tesserax,

    Tesserax Tesserax Mar 29, 2014 10:28 AM in response to DVX100Shooter
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    Mar 29, 2014 10:28 AM in response to DVX100Shooter

    The basic setup, as turbostar has suggested, would be the following:

     

    • You will need a minimum of two AirPort Express base stations. Ideally they should be the same model or at least both be the 802.11n versions.
    • Connect one Express to the Comcast-provided gateway device, using an Ethernet cable, between one of the gateway's LAN ports and the Express' WAN (circle of dots) port.
    • Reconfigure this Express as a bridge.
    • Configure the second Express to extend the wireless range of the first Express. Note: Unless you want to have two separate Wi-Fi networks, you will want to disable the wireless network provided by the Comcast device.