Airport base station needed?

I just bought an Airport express. Do I actually need an Airport Extreme base station to extend my network or can I do that with the router that I currently have? Based on my experiences thus far I'm thinking that I must have the base station. Thanks to anyone willing to help.

In most cases, you can configure the AirPort Express to join your existing wireless network so you won't have to switch networks to listen to AirTunes. This is sometimes a bit tricky and it may take a few tries.
Here's how to do it:
Move the Express near your computer and temporarily, connect an ethernet cable from your computer to the AirPort Express. After you have it configured, you can remove the cable and move the Express back to the desired location.
Open Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
Wireless Mode should be set to "Join a wireless network". If you don't see this choice, hold down the "option" key on your computer while you click on the selection box
Wireless Network Name...your Netgear wireless network name should appear as a choice to join. Click to select your Netgear wireless network name
Wireless Security....must be the exact same security setting that your Netgear network is using
Wireless Password....must be the exact same setting that your Netgear network is using
Click Update to save your changes. Close AirPort Utility. The Express will restart in 15-20 seconds. Now you can move the Express back to the location that you want.

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Using wireless only, the AirPort Express can NOT "extend" or "repeat" the wireless signal if it is being produced by another router from another manufacturer.
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o (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451)
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Your Express requires an IP address to be issued by the device connected to its WAN port, in most cases that is a cable modem.
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OK - starts to make sense now. If you did a factory reset of the base station then more than likely the airport network name for it is the Apple default name, and you probably lost the WDS in Wireless Mode.
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1. Reset your AEB to its factory default again.
2. Turn-off the AEB and connect one of its ethernet ports to your Mac by ethernet cable, and connect the DSL modem to the WAN port on the AEB by ethernet cable.
3. Power up your Mac, the DSL modem and the AEB and wait for all to complete their startup sequence. Then open AirPort Utility - you should see your AEB under a generic network name. Click on the AEB.
4. Use the auto setup procedure by clicking 'Continue'. Follow the onscreen instructions for setting up a new network. When asked, use the 'original network name' for your school network. When asked for a network password, use the 'original network password' for your school network (what sort of network security were you using - WPA2 Personal - use whatever you had previously.
5. At some stage you will also be asked to give the AEB a name and admin password - use whatever they were previously.
6. When the setup procedure is complete and the AEB finishes restarting, the AEB will reappear in AirPort Utility. Click on the AEB and click 'Manual Setup'. You may be asked for the admin password to get into the configuration profile.
7. Click on the 'Wireless' tab and set the 'Wireless Mode:' to 'Participate in a WDS network' if not already set to this. While in this pane, look at 'Channel:' - do you remember what this was set to previously (if not, you may need to connect one of the other AEBs by ethernet cable to a Mac and use AirPort Utility to check the Channel setting.
8. Now, click on the 'Internet' icon at the top of AirPort Utility. Check that 'Connection Sharing:' is set to 'Off (Bridge Mode)' - if not, change it.
9. Now, click 'Update' and wait for the AEB to restart.
10. Now, disconnect the ethernet cable from the Mac to the AEB ethernet port.
11. Open Airport Utility, and hopefully, you can now see the AEB and the other 4 or 5 base stations.
Let us know what happens.

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