crdrummond
Level 1
(8 points)
Q: Connect Airport to sky hub - sharing/wifi issues
I have just bought an Airport Extreme and am trying to connect it to my existing sky (q) network hub.
I had it all set up, with it wired via ethernet to my sky hub.
I have 2 external hard drives connected to the Airport Extreme and was performing a time machine back up to one of the drives attached. That was all working fine, expect the back up was extremely slow (it had only managed 30gb in 3 hours, and it need to do a TB). I realised that the Airport had created a wifi network of its own, and i was wondering if it was interfering with my main sky one, so i turned off the Airport wifi. Now I cannot connect to the share drives. Utility can see them, but on my macbook, when i click to connect to the Airport server, it wont connect.
Is this expected? I would expect that i should not need to run 2 wifi networks if my Airport Extreme is connected to my sky router via ethernet? Any help gratefully appreciated!
Catherine
MacBook Pro
Tesserax
Level 9
(54,864 points)
When connected to the Sky Hub by Ethernet, your AirPort Extreme should be reconfigured as a bridge.
To do so, you would use the AirPort Utility, as follows:
- Run the AirPort Utility.
- Select the Extreme, and then, select Edit.
- Click on the Network tab.
- Change Router Mode to: Off (Bridge Mode).
- Click on Update and allow the base station to restart.
