Setting up Airport Express to provide internet to existing network

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Setting up Airport Express to provide internet to existing network

Hi,

I want to setup the following configuration:

Router(ISP) <cable connection> Airport Express <Wifi> Primary Router <cable connection> Network Attached Storage / TV / Playstation

Is it possible to provide internet connection to the primary router via the airport express, which is plugged into the WAN? Or does the airport express need to be the primary router, to be able to use the WAN connection, plugged into it?

Hope you get what I want to do ;-)

Regards

Michael

Posted on Sep 9, 2016 11:37 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 10, 2016 8:00 AM in response to michims

This setup will not work .. unless the primary router is an apple airport of some sort. Is it?

It is a very poor setup even if you have apple airport as primary router.. it is much better to cable. I am guessing this is not possible.. if not then you another possible way around the problem is EOP (ethernet over power) adapters.

They are not going to work in all situations depending on the power cabling in the house.. but are better than wireless links when they do.

You show a Router (ISP) at the beginning point.. what router is that? If that is working as router.. none of the other devices should be setup as router.. having a primary router means that you have no router in front of it.

Give us some more details and we can help further.

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Sep 10, 2016 8:06 AM in response to LaPastenague

Thanks for your reply!

yes, cable is not possible but I will try the powerline version - great idea!

I Have a Netgear R7000 as primary and the second one as bridge mode for TV etc. but in this setup the time machine does often not find the NAS drives connected to the bridge. Therefore I need to switch to a setup, where the primary router is the one with all the drives and TV connected via cable. But sadly the ISP connection is in a different room, so no cable connection possible. Hence the strange setup

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Answer 3

Sep 10, 2016 9:07 PM in response to michims

Apple has definite issues with TM when connecting to non-apple routers.. and when over wireless bridges to which the computer has no direct connection. This is DNS problem and likely bonjour.

It is bad enough that it may be worth thinking about plugging in a USB drive.. local drives are far more reliable, far faster and well worth using rather than network drives for time machine.

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