Gwaynee
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Q: Two New Airport Extremes with Three Airport expresses

Wondring the best way to configure 2 new Aiport extremes with three airport expreses in my duplex inclusing a detached garage. One extremm is hard wired into my ATT router. I have an upstarirs two bedroom and directly below a one bedroom / office and a detahced two car garage. Been reading about ethenet connections but confused about roamoing neqtowrk which seems like the odeal but unrealistic in my sitch. Whats the best way to confirugre this network with two AE and 3 Aexpresses. I ant to be ablke to have the strongest signal everywhere.

 

Help.

 

Running MAV on several macs, Mac Air. MBP three IPAD 2, three Iphones 4s, Ipad mini, three Apple TVS.

Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 30, 2014 1:21 PM

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  • by Tesserax,

    Tesserax Tesserax May 30, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Gwaynee
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    May 30, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Gwaynee

    A roaming network would, most likely, be ideal for your situation. However, it does require that all base stations be interconnected by Ethernet to work.

     

    In a roaming network each wireless base station will broadcast its own Wi-Fi network, but since each will use the same network name, it will appear to wireless clients as being one "big" network.

     

    The following are the keys for a successful roaming network setup:

     

    • Only the router directly connected to the Internet modem should have both NAT & DHCP enabled. All other routers should be in bridge mode (i.e., NAT & DHCP disabled).
    • All wireless routers should broadcast a Wi-Fi network with the same network name or SSID. They should also use the same wireless security type (WPA or WPA2) and wireless password.