Airport, Airport and iPhone

Hi,
I'm struggling with setting up my home network. Basically, I have two Airport Express (one connected to my router, the other in the next room to stream iTunes to external speakers), an Apple TV, a MacBook, a Sony Vaio notebook, and an iPhone. Ideally, all would support 802.11n, but the iPhone and the Vaio doesn't.
Right now I have the entire network at b/g speed, because otherwise iPhone and Vaio can't get on, but my hope is that there is a possibility to increase the speed of parts of the network to n. Is it possible to have...
- the router connected to the first Airport Express, and have this one working at n-speed to stream fast to the Apple TV and have a fast connection for the MacBook, and have
- the other Airport Express not be physically connected to the router, but to "extend the range" to allow connecting the iPhone and the Vaio at b/g?
I'm getting a little confused here... help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Philipp

I had the same problem when I first got the iPhone... for whatever reason, it wouldn't connect to the Airport Extreme-created Wifi network I had at home. So, I fiddled with the WiFi access settings in the "Settings" window on the iPhone.
In Settings, go into the "WiFi" area, right below the Airplane Mode option.
Once in WifI, choose the network you're trying to get on.
You should be able to now change the security format of the password. I found that even though I did have a WEP password for the Airport Extreme, the only way I could connect to the network was by changing the security to the "WEP hex or ASCII" option.
Once I did that, I tried my network password again, and it worked.
See if this works for you.

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Message was edited by: EricC617

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Ninja10
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