Hello,
Anyone knows, is it possible to connect AirPort Express as a bridge to 3rd party ethernet router?
The idea is to have AirPort for accessing Internet and streaming music via AirPlay from IPhone, Notebook and even from the PC?
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.1, null
An express can work as wireless (to ethernet) bridge.. although that is not the configuration you are using here.. you are using Wireless AP.
Your very nice diagram.. shows the connections.. just plug it into the router only use the WAN port not LAN... the airport utility should detect the connection and set it up as bridged device (network bridge not wireless bridge). and create a wireless network of whatever name you want.
That is perfectly standard setup and commonly used. In this setup the WAN port will be allocated to LAN.. then you will be able to use second lan port for something else.
Thanks for a prompt reply )
So, did you mean that the setup could be even looked like this?
If I have DHCP configured on 3rd party router, would it be all devices in the same network then (I mean that Airport will simply relay DHCP requests there)?
Yes, all correct.
The Express is bridged.. it passes all the dhcp requests to the main router.
This is a flat network so any device can communicate with any other device.
The only thing to note if your main 3rd party router is gigabit the Express only has 100mbit ports so it will be a bit slower.. that however does not affect the smart tv (it will only be fast ethernet).
I do not use express.. but I have an airport extreme in pretty much this setup.
I have
bridged adsl modem___gargoyle router___AEgen5... wireless clients.
Plus some other extend wireless.. which need not bother us.
The AEgen5 is setup in bridge.. and extends wireless to the network.
I can link wireless to the gargoyle router as an alternative.
No matter which I connect to I can use connection to any network client.
Thanks, that is exactly the setup I want! I believe 100mbit looks enough for me )
Airport Express as a wireless bridge to 3rd party ethernet router?
