If I don't want to use my Airport Extreme as a router, how do I hook it up as a storage device?

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If I don't want to use my Airport Extreme as a router, how do I hook it up as a storage device?

I recently installed Eero as my wifi routing device. It is excellent. Now I don't want to use my Airport Extreme as my router but would like to continue to use it as my backup storage device. Is this possible and how do I hook it up.

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Posted on Jul 14, 2016 10:56 AM

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Tesserax

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Jul 14, 2016 11:59 AM in response to RFPfromChicago

Connect the Extreme directly to one of the Ethernet ports on the Eero. The Extreme will also need to be reconfigured as a bridge.

Then, you have two basic choices:

Configure the Extreme in a roaming network configuration with the Eero, or
Disable the Extreme's Wi-Fi radios.

With either option, you could continue to use the Extreme as a file server.

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