802.11n client distribution across 2.4 and 5.0 radios?

What is the recommended way to ensure 802.11n clients are evenly split between 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz frequencies?
We're using 4404 controllers with WCS and Cisco 3502i AP's.
Thanks,
Rob

What is the recommended way to ensure 802.11n clients are evenly split between 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz frequencies?
The "best" way is to configure the clients to associate to the correct radio of your choice. Doing this will cause issues in the near future. For example, you have configured a client to associate to the "a" radio. However, if the client goes beyond the "a" radio range ...
The "easiest" way is to let the client/wireless NIC make the decision themselves.

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How to setup ADSL moden router and Airport Express 802.11n (1st Generation) to provide internet and airplay connections to multiple devices?

I have a Netgear wireless ADSL modem router (wireless + four ethernet out ports) that i'd like to connect to a 1st gen Airport Express to create a small home network to provide internet access for a MacBook, iPhone and Apple TV, and to provide Airplay connection to the Apple TV and Airport Express audio output jack.
I'd like to turn off the wireless function of the ADSL modem router, and to have from one of its ethernet out ports an ethernet cable providing internet directly connected to my MacBooks ethernet port.
Then from one of the other ethernet outs on the ADSL modem router an ethernet cable connected to the Airport Express's ethernet port. This would be to provide wireless internet connection for the Apple TV and iPhone via WiFi from the AE.
At the same time as the MacBook is receviing internet soley via the ethernet in port, i'd like it to have WiFi connection to the AE to provide Airplay connection to the Apple TV and the AE's audio out jack.
Is this all possible? How should I go about to configure this? How should the AE's ethernet port be configured?
Any special modes the ADSL modem router or Airport Express should be in? ie bridge or client?
Thanks

On the ADSL modem router web-based interface, should I set any security setting? I think not as there'll be no wireless signal coming from it, only wired ethernet connections to both MacBook and AE. Security should only be set on the AE to prevent someone from accessing its WiFi signal. Is this assumption correct?
These are all correct!
How should I go about setting up security for this network?
First I would recommend that you configure the AirPort Express for WPA2 Personal. This will provide you with the greastest level of security while still providing excellent bandwidth performance.
You would configure wireless security for the Express by using the AirPort Utility on a Mac, PC, or iOS device. Using your MacBook Pro as an example, you would do so as follows:
Run the AirPort Utility.
Select the Express, and then, click on Edit.
Select the Wireless tab to enable it.
Set the Wireless Security option to: WPA2 Personal
Enter the desired password in both the Wireless Password & Verify Password fields. Note: Use of a "strong" password is encourage here. By strong, I mean use a mix of upper/lowercase letters, numbers, & punctuation marks. Try not to use common dictionary words. If you operate your wireless in an area where security is of an utmost concern, I would further suggest that you change the wireless security password every 60-90 days. Also don't forget to change the default AirPort Base Station Administrator password as well.
Click on Update and allow the Express to restart.

Airport Express 802.11n keeps disconnecting Airplay with iPhone and Macbook Air

I purchased this Airport Express on Jan 7, 2012. It was working fine.
I used it for airplay only to play my itunes music to my speakers. My speakers are connected to an amplifier that is inturn connected to the Airport Express via an optical cable. I have not use it with a printer. I do not use it as a wifi to access the internet.
It was working fine until about a month or so ago when after playing a few songs it would disconnect. Now after less than 2-3mins it would disconnect. When I try to manually reconnect with my iPhone or Macbook Air, it would say that is unable to connect to the Airport.
If I keep trying, eventually it will connect and then after 2-3 mins it would cut off again. The amber light would show contineously.
I am at wits end. I have not changed the arrangement at all since Jan. What could have happened?
About a month ago there were an update to Airport Utility. I ran that update. Could that be the problem?
I'd appreciate if someone could help me. The warranty will run out a less than a month. How timely isn't it.
Is the router broken. If so why does it still allow me to use Airplay but only for a few minutes (less than a song)?
Thanks in advance for any help and or advice.
Mike

Unfortunately there could be any number of possible causes. Your router could be at fault, or the Express, or something else that is affecting both. To troubleshoot this issue you would have to eliminate or significantly reduce one or more of these possibilities.
Try performing a "hard reset" of the Express and configure it anew. Sometimes an internal parameter becomes corrupted that only a "hard reset" can fix.
The following is an excerpt from:
Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ
Hard reset
Press and hold the reset button with a pen or pencil until you see the status light (LED) start to flash amber rapidly, which should occur after about five seconds.
Release the button, and the AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule will hard reset.
... but read the entire document to ensure you do it correctly. An Express that has been "hard reset" will create an open network with the name "Apple Network nnnnnn" where nnnnnn = the last few digits of its MAC address.
If you do not see the network with that name, the "hard reset" did not take effect, which will happen if you do not hold its little reset button long enough. In that case do it again.
Following the "hard reset", reconfigure your Express.
Failing that, position the Express closer to your wireless router. This may not be a practicable long term solution for you but it will minimize the possibility that wireless interference is causing the problem.
Consider substituting another router, to eliminate that as the cause.
Finally, you could take your Express to Apple who may simply offer you an exchanged unit. It will most likely operate perfectly well for them so you will not be able to demonstrate this failure mode, but you can explain you did all that I suggested above without success.

Data and Voice separation with 802.11n

Hi there
I'm interessting in some design guides. I would deploy data in 2.4 GHz band and the voice in 5 GHz band. But aren't there problems with the 802.11n deployment, I thought that this works better in 5 GHz.
What recommendations would you make and did you have some issues with this design?
Thanks in advance.
Dominic

Hi Dominic,
You can find all kinds of documentation on Cisco's 802.11n homepage: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns767/networking_solutions_package.html
To answer your questions, there is no "problem" with running 802.11n in the 2.4GHz space, but there are limitations. You cannot use channel-bonding, which is the primary source of the added bandwidth that 802.11n offers. If you want to see 150Mbps data rates, you'll need to deploy it in a 5GHz implementation.
Another advantage to running in 5GHz is that you can isolate your 802.11n traffic from your 802.11b/g traffic on the 2.4GHz radio. This will prevent slowdown that can occur when legacy clients coexist with 802.11n clients.
So yes, you're correct to say that it does work better in 5GHz. The nice thing is that most 802.11n chips in laptops support this band.
That said, it would be best if voice and data can both exist in the 5GHz space. You can accomplish this by creating different SSIDs for your voice and data networks. There is nothing wrong with deploying both in 5GHz.
Let me know if you have anymore questions. Thanks!
Jeff

Numerous problems with Airport Express 802.11n with DSL and extending WLAN

Hi all,
I have the following hardware:
802.11b/g Airport Express with firmware 6.3
802.11n Airport Express with firmware 7.3.2
MacBook Pro
iBook G4
Mac Pro PowerMac 2x450 G4
Up until now I had been using the old Airport Express as the base station connecting to my PPPoE DSL line, and it worked fine. I wanted to extend the range of this network, and got another newer Airport Express, the 802.11n model.
First I tried to use the 802.11n to connect to the Internet and the old one to extend the network. Turns out the old one can't be used to extend a network, which is bad enough, but the 802.11n one refuses to connect via DSL for more than a couple minutes, then drops the Internet connection.
So I tried downgrading the firmware to 7.3.0 and 7.3.1, but it didn't help. Did a hard reset, factory default reset, soft reset, nothing worked.
Next I tried swapping the two, putting the old Express back on the DSL line and the new one as the bridge to extend the network (using WPA2). But the 802.11n complains that it can't access the network and flashes amber.
Again, tried upgrading to 7.3.2, downgrading to 7.3.1 and 7.3.0, hard reset, soft reset. Nothing works.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Fairfax71

I don't see any option in the Airport Admin Utility for the old Express for creating a WDS network, only to participate in one...?
That is the option you want to choose.
You could use the newer AirPort Utility to configure the older AX.
Sorry, forgot to ask something else: The 802.11n Express is able to join the WLAN created by the 802.11b/g Express as a client, but not extend it, is that what you're saying?
No. If you join the network the AX is simply acting as another wireless client and is not extending the network. The "extend" option is not available since the older AX is not 802.11n capable. You must use WDS.
Use AirPort Utiity and follow these steps for both AX's. To set up the main AX:
Click the AirPort status menu in the menu bar and choose the wireless network created by the base station you want to set up as the main base station.
Open AirPort Utility (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a Mac, or in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a Windows computer). Select the main base station, and choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu, or double-click the base station to open the configuration in a separate window. Enter the base station password if necessary. If the base station is using the default password of public, you will not be prompted for a password.
Click the Wireless button, and then choose “Participate in a WDS network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu.
Click WDS and then choose “WDS main” from the WDS Mode pop-up menu.
Select the “Allow wireless clients” checkbox if you want client computers to connect to this base station.
Click the Add button and enter the MAC address of the base stations you want to connect to this base station. If there is a base station listed that you’d like to remove from the list, select the base station and click the Delete (–) button.
Click Update to send the new settings to the base stations in the WDS. By default, the “Allow wireless clients” checkbox is selected. If you deselect the checkbox, and later want to change the settings on the base station, you must connect to the base station’s LAN port with an Ethernet cable. You will not be able to connect to the base station wirelessly.
To set up the second AX to connect to the main AX:
Open AirPort Utility. Select the AX, and choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu. Enter the base station password, if necessary. If the base station is using the default password of public, you will not be prompted for a password.
Enter the same network password as the main base station, if necessary.
Click the AirPort button, and then click Wireless. Choose “Participate in a WDS network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu, and choose the same channel as the main base station from the Channel pop-up menu.
Click WDS and choose “WDS remote” from the pop-up menu.
Enter the MAC address of the main base station in the WDS Main field. The MAC address is also referred to as the AirPort ID and is printed on the label on the bottom of the base station.
Click Update to transfer the settings to the base station.
This can be found on page 42 of "Designing AirPort Networks Using AirPort Utility" (direct PDF download).

X1 and 802.11n

Hi,
Im having real issues with 802.11n and my new x1 carbon.
After configuring the '802.11n mode' option to enable I sometimes hit speeds over 54mbs but mostly it settles around 19-36..
This occurs at home and at my workplace (Technicolor gateway router and cisco enterpirse 802.11n network respectively).
What gives. I have updated the wifi controller to latest drivers.

When the iPhone joins the 802.11n (b/g compatible network) in the 2.4GHz band, the network will drop down the speed a little to deal with the slower device (this is done automatically, you don't have to manually change it).
Alternatively, you can manually switch between 5GHz 802.11n and 2.4GHz b/g mode every time your iphone need to connect to the internet. But it's a lot of inconvenience.
The best way is to run all 802.11n devices in 5 GHz band, and your iPhone in a separate 802.11b/g 2.4 GHz band network. But this requires two base stations.
From your earlier post, I don't think you have two base stations needed to set up a dual-band network, and you will need to purchase additional new base station to set this up.

Connections dropped, DNS and server timeouts from new Lenovo with 802.11n

New Airport Extreme, works great with Windows XP machine ethernetted into it, and also with a MacBook with wireless-N.
But my brand new Lenovo T60P with wireless-N is flakey with the Airport. It connects fine with a 100% signal, using the WPA2-PSK / AES setting on the Lenovo (WPA2 Personal security in 802.11n b/g compatibility mode on the Airport). Most of the time it works quite well.
But very frequently (every five minutes?) one of two things will happen: with the signal still registering fine in the taskbar (and in the laptop's wireless "status" utility), it will become unable to locate any website, including google.com, etc., and refreshes of currently-displayed websites yield server timeouts. The browser (firefox) gives a DNS timeout message. The second thing is just your basic dropped wireless connection. It will reconnect by itself after a while.
Any advice is hugely appreciated. It ***** to "upgrade" to headaches! (Ha! the forum software doesn't like a synonym for "vaccuums". Apologies to the nuns at Apple for my potty mouth.)

New Airport Extreme, works great with Windows XP
machine ethernetted into it, and also with a MacBook
with wireless-N.
But my brand new Lenovo T60P with wireless-N is
flakey with the Airport. It connects fine with a
100% signal, using the WPA2-PSK / AES setting on the
Lenovo (WPA2 Personal security in 802.11n b/g
compatibility mode on the Airport). Most of the time
it works quite well.
But very frequently (every five minutes?) one of two
things will happen: with the signal still registering
fine in the taskbar (and in the laptop's wireless
"status" utility), it will become unable to locate
any website, including google.com, etc., and
refreshes of currently-displayed websites yield
server timeouts. The browser (firefox) gives a DNS
timeout message. The second thing is just your basic
dropped wireless connection. It will reconnect by
itself after a while.
Any advice is hugely appreciated. It ***** to
"upgrade" to headaches! (Ha! the forum software
doesn't like a synonym for "vaccuums". Apologies to
the nuns at Apple for my potty mouth.)
What you experienced is not a surprise as 802.11n is not a standard yet and each manufacturer has developed it own "pre-n" version. Right now Apple (base station) will work with Apple (notebooks), Dlink (routers) will work with Dlink (PCMCIA cards), etc.
Lenovo is no different. You can expect 80-90% compatibility, but not 100%. To expect cross-vendor 100% compatibility, you will likely have to wait until 802.11n is "approved" and then the firmware is updated on all devices.

Airport Extreme 802.11n and XBox 360 Disonnects

I've been using the Airport Xtreme 802.11n for about a week now and have been frequently disconnected from Xbox live on my xbox 360. The NAT is open and I'm directly connected to the router via an ethernet cable. I've given the 360 a static IP address and have forwarded ports 88 and 3074. The disconnects have happened both while in the middle of a online game and while I'm just on the Dashboard. Does anyone have any suggestions or is anyone else experiencing this. Please Help! It's extremely frustrating!

I have been having this problem as well. It says the server timed out, then my AEBS starts flashing yellow. Sometimes it goes back to green on its own, then other times I have to open up the airport setup. Oddly mine happens the same time every night, give or take 5 minutes.
For more info on my setup: XBOX360 wired to the AEBS, connected to a Motorola modem. At&t DSL is my ISP.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wireless Music and Surfing on Express via a 802.11n network

Hello.
Just a quick query I hope. I am setting up a 802.11n network but i would still like to stream music from my mac to my hi-fi. As i understand it the two specifications (g and n) are compatible, however I would still like the benefit of the 802.11n network, as such i would use a dedicated 'n' router for the network and just have the express base connected to the stereo.
If i set-up my Express base station, would this comprise speeds for internet surfing, file sharing, and reliability / performance? Or would it simply use the 'n' router network for the net but iTunes would pickup the express base-station for music?
All advice welcome, regards, Jim.

I suggest, if practical, to set up a "dual band" network with your new 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) and the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) to take advantage of their features.
Setting up a "dual band" network is described in the Designing AirPort Networks Using the AirPort Utility document, starting on page 48.

Netgear dg834n and 802.11n

Does anyone know if it is possible to use a MacBook Pro C2D 2.16 GHz to a Netgear dg834n via 802.11n?
Is there any compatibility issue?
My connection is fine, but only with 802.11g standard.
Thanks.

When the iPhone joins the 802.11n (b/g compatible network) in the 2.4GHz band, the network will drop down the speed a little to deal with the slower device (this is done automatically, you don't have to manually change it).
Alternatively, you can manually switch between 5GHz 802.11n and 2.4GHz b/g mode every time your iphone need to connect to the internet. But it's a lot of inconvenience.
The best way is to run all 802.11n devices in 5 GHz band, and your iPhone in a separate 802.11b/g 2.4 GHz band network. But this requires two base stations.
From your earlier post, I don't think you have two base stations needed to set up a dual-band network, and you will need to purchase additional new base station to set this up.

AEBSn - Unable to switch to 802.11n - Installation Bugged!

If you have a fairly recent Mac and an AEBS which supports 802.11n (the Gigabit or "802.11n" model) then you are supposed to be able to get 802.11n which has advantages over 802.11g.
I run late-2006 iMacs and these are 802.11n possible machines, providing 802.11n has been enabled. Downloading the "2007-002" enabler is not necessary, as the enabler will tell you. That's because a similar enabler is embedded into the AEBS installer on the supplied disc.
I assumed that the instal process for the Gigabit AEBS would handle things automatically in terms of getting everything moving at 802.11n speed or at least allow easy selection.
Nothing like it. This is a warning to others.
I noticed in my Airport Utility that I was running at 2.4GHz and not 5GHz which is for 802.11n. So clever me decided to simply switch and restart my AEBS. (An incentive too was to move above all the shops across the road. They seem to have channels 1, 6, and 11 working hard.)
Lost my connection to the AEBS as a result of that. The AEBS instal process did NOT update my computers to support 802.11n. Can be checked via Network Utilities. I hadn't thought to check first.
133MAC in Australia were very helpful - they spent almost an hour working through things his morning. Top Notch support!
Solution required the Airport instal to be rerun but a lot of other poking around first in order that the embedded 802.11n enabler would indeed run. And you'll need a LAN cable and possibly need to move one computer over to the AEBS!
Couldn't find an Apple Knowledgebase article on this problem with the Airport instal disc but I suspect it is a known issue.
(I had nothing quirky in my network setup / machines. All using the most recent system software updates, default settings in network and sharing preferences and so on)

Yes I know about all that as these are the very options presented in the pop-up menu on the relevant configuration tab.
What I'm saying is that selecting the 5GHz option resulted in my iMacs being unable to communicate with the AEBSn through WiFi - the 5GHz spectrum.
Leaving the AEBSn in "default radio mode" as you call it will mean that it will actually be using 802.11g at 2.4GHz due to its inability to use 802.11n at 2.4GHz or 5GHz. The Apple Tech people I spoke to recognised this.
Many purchasers of the AEBSn, like myself, will really want to take advantage of the 802.11n capabilities in the 5GHz spectrum. They wish to dedictae the AEBSn to 5GHz throughput and deliberately exclude 802.11b/g on their AEBSn. Let some other boxes take care of that in the 2.4GHz range.
For a little home office thing with a mix of old and new clients the default setting for the AEBSn is a very good thing as the admin doesn't really care about throughput.

Airport Express 802.11n joining existing Aiport Extreme 802.11g network

We added an Airport Express to support Airtunes on a stereo system to an existing Airport Extreme 802.11g network. The original Extreme had an antenna to extend its range as well. The problem we are having is that the connection from an iMac keeps going up and down. Is there an issue using WDS between Airport units that are of different speeds? Any thoughts on why this might be doing this and how we can get it to operate stably again as it was with just the old Airport Extreme.

I am concerned with the speed being reduced by half per node. Do you mean if I had three access points in a WDS network the speed would be half or does it reduce to one third?
Also, I want to point out in the latest manual, WDS does support 802.11n and mixed, including wide channel, which may over come being halfed but not further reductions.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/Designing_AirPort_Networks10.5-Windows.pdf
--------excerpt from apple manual -------------------------------------
Setting Up a Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
When you connect devices wirelessly in a WDS, you set up each device as
either a main, a remote, or a relay device.
You can connect AirPort Extreme 802.11n Base Stations or Time Capsules and use the
5 GHz frequency band in the network. Only client computers that have 802.11n wireless
cards installed can join the network. If you want client computers using 802.11b or
802.11g wireless cards to join the network, set up the network using the 2.4 GHz
frequency band, or add 802.11g AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express to the network. See
“Choosing the Radio Mode” on page 21 for information about setting the frequency
band of the network. You can also set up a dual-band network that utilizes both the
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, so client computers using 802.11n wireless cards
can join the 5 GHz segment of the network, and computers using 802.11b or 802.11g
wireless cards can join the 2.4 GHz segment. See “Setting up a Dual-Band (2.4 GHz and
5 GHz) Network” on page 48.
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Does 802.11n give a speed boost on the iPad?

I did some testing to see if I'd get a speed boost by enabling 802.11n on my Belkin F5D8233-4 router, which supports 802.11n draft specification. I have Verizon FIOS with 25Mbps download/upload. I also have the Verizon router, which only supports 802.11b/g, and I can switch which router I'm connected to in order to compare speeds of 802.11n and 802.11g. All tests were done less than 3 feet from either router.
Bottom line is that the iPad doesn't get any speed boost by using 802.11n, at least by using speedtest.net to do the testing.
The test I used was with the speedtest app for the iPhone. I made the Belkin a pure 11n router, and ran that app from the iPad. So the connection had to be 802.11n. Then I connected the iPad to my Verizon router, which had to be 802.11g, and saw virtually no difference.
I did the same test with a Windows laptop from my job that supports 802.11n. It connected locally to the Belkin router at 72Mbps according to the internal utility. Testing using speedtest.net indicated that using the 802.11n connection on the Belkin was 50% faster than the 802.11g connection on the Verizon router. (About 30Mbps for Belkin/802.11n compared to 20Mbps for Verizon/802.11g for downloads).
But with the iPad, doing the same test (switching from Belkin router to Verizon router), the speed didn't change. It actually seemed a little slower when I was on 802.11n, but repeated tests showed some variability, and the average was about 19Mbps.
I realize that the overall speed for the iPad when I'm in my house will get throttled by the FIOS connection max of 25Mbps (although it's interesting that with my MacMini, and the Windows laptop, when connected via 100baseT, I get 30Mbps from FIOS when they promise 25Mbps!). But I can't get the good results from the iPad using 802.11n that I see with the Windows laptop. I'd like to try a local speedtest using the local LAN. I installed Speedtest MINI on the MacMini, enabling the Mac as a server, and the Windows laptop did 72Mbps on the local LAN. But Speedtest MINI requires Flash in the browser, so I can't do that test on the iPad. And the Speedtest app for iPhone doesn't let you pick a local URL for the server.
So I'm now pretty sure that 802.11n isn't really working right on the iPad with my Belkin router, in terms of delivering increased performance. I've read other posts where people have looked at the transmit rate from the router side, but I really wish I could look at the transmit rate from the iPad (like I do in Mac OS X, or in Windows) to verify.
To be sure, I'd like to run a speedtest on my local LAN from the iPad. Has anyone been able to actually do some kind of test that verifies the speed of an iPad connection on a local LAN, and does that verification from the iPad, and not the router?
And finally, has anyone ever done a test that verifies that 802.11n from an iPad delivers a speed boost compared to 802.11g? Are there specific requirements on the router side that need to be satisfied so that the iPad gets a boost? I've read elsewhere where someone said that you only get the boost if using Apple's Airport Extreme as the router (so that you can't really get 802.11n on a non-Apple router), and I think I saw someone say that the router has to support communication over 5.0Ghz for the iPad to be fast on 802.11n. Has Apple ever said what are the real requirements for the iPad to be faster on 802.11n versus 802.11g?

To the contrary, my experience is that the "G" standard on WiFi provided MUCH faster speeds than the "N" standard on Wi-Fi. It makes no sense, I know, but it is true.
I was having horribly slow Wi-Fi speeds on my iPad2, despite a fast cable modem connection and a "N" generation Linksys wireless router (maybe 2-3 yrs old). Was achieving speeds of only 1.3Mbs -- slow enough that you couldn't watch YouTube videos. From hunting around on the web, I came across the suggestion to manually set the Wi-Fi router to the "G" standard (ie downgrade it from the faster "N" standard). Remarkably, I did it and it worked like a charm. I now get Wi-Fi speeds of about 12 or 13 Mbs, or 10x what I was getting before. It is an easy fix. And also I think the "G" standard is capable of 50Mbs so even though it is a slower and older standard, it is still way faster than anything you are likely to achieve as a home user. I think there is some glitch or oddity in the iPad and iPad2 which can cause it to perform very poorly with older "N" standard WiFi routers. New ones don't seem to have a problem.

Korean version of Aiport 802.11n still 130Mbps?

I bought my MBP in Feb/08 in Korea.
Until recently they did not allow the segment of frequency
limiting speed of 802.11n to 130Mbps.
Now I am using my laptop in Australia. So Is there anyway
that I can check if my MBP's Airport is still speed limited?
And if it is is there anyway of removing this restriction?

Hello Filippo Morelli. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Have you considered running a "Dual-Mode" network?
The set up would be something like the following:
o 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) connected directly, via Ethernet, to the DSL/cable modem, and configured for 802.11n only.
o 802.11g AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) connected directly, via Ethernet, to one of the AEBSn's LAN port, and configured for 802.11b/g. Optionally, the AEBS could be configured as the main base station in the WDS with the AX.
o 802.11g AirPort Express Base Station (AX) connected wirelessly to the AEBS as either a remote base station in a WDS or as a wireless client for iTunes streaming and/or USB printer sharing.
In this configuration, you would have separate wireless networks, one for 802.11n clients, the other for all others. Since the AEBS would be configured as a bridge, all clients on both wireless networks could access the Internet thru the AEBSn, as well as, communicate with each other locally.
If, and when, Apple releases 802.11n updates for existing 802.11g products, you could substitute them in piecemeal.

802.11n , I would like to set it up as an 802.11n only network ?

I purchased my Airport Extreme 802.11n today. I am networked and am a bit faster but I have no signs of truly running at 802.11n ? I ran the software to activate the n on my Macbook Pro C2D and I still do not have the option to run only on 802.11n ? I set up the Airport Extreme also. Im confused and wanna be able to utilize this new technology. Can anyone help ?
Thank You !!

Did you install AirPort Utility?
I am not sure how you are determining if you are getting N speeds, but you could try this:
If you double-click on your base station and choose "Logs and Statistics" from the Base Station menu, it will show you the rates of associated wireless clients. Anything greater than 54 are N-rates. The max is 130 for b/g/n and 300 for a/n with Wide Channels enabled.

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