Airport Express lowers internet data rate

When I run an internet speed test with my cable modem connected to my iMac with an ethernet cable I typically get download speeds around 110 Mbps. When I connect my cable modem to my Apple Express and use my Apple Express wifi to connect my iMac I typically get download speeds around 70 Mbps. I understand the Apple Express is capable of 100 Mbps data rates. Any ideas how I might increase my wifi data rate when using wifi?

The Gen1 is indeed single band..
And if you need 2.4ghz you have no choice but to use it..
Selecting N only does not necessarily select 5ghz.. as both 2.4ghz and 5ghz are N wireless. All that selection does is prevent G and A and B wireless devices joining. However you maybe right that it is forcing the connection to 5ghz.. the way to find out is hold the option key and click the wifi fan in the top menu area of the mac and check what it says.. or open the wireless diagnostics you will find in the same place.
It appears the current generation Apple Express includes a LAN ethernet port that would allow a wired ethernet connection for my iMac (and I assume throughput the 100+Mbps speeds my ISP provides) to my iMac while simultaneously providing wifi for the other devices in my household.
The ethernet of the later 2nd Gen express will allow you to reach 100Mbps but that is the Max.. if you share with wireless you still cannot exceed 100Mbit.. even if the link is to local lan.. That is why I said the right product is the extreme. If you don't want to buy a new Gen6 Airport Extreme .. buy a Gen5 second hand.. they cost less than a new Express and work better.. having 4 gigabit ethernet ports and higher speed 5ghz.

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I'm guessing you only have the modem/router supplied by your isp and the Airport Express. Is the Airport Express connected to the modem/router with an ethernet cable? If not, plug one end of the cable into an available port on the modem/router and the other end in to the WAN port, indicated with a dashed circle, on the Airport Express.
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using sucessfully airport express for internet
when hooking up new airport extreme light glows green, but does NOT appear in devices sesn in 5.6 airport wifi devices
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How is the express getting internet? What modem is it plugged into?
How is the extreme setup? New extreme cannot be setup with 5.6 utility.. you must use latest 6.3. Which also means you cannot setup from computer using less than Lion .. or you must use iOS with latest utility but it has limited configuration cf the computer version.
IPv6 is also needed.. turn on local link.

Use Airport Express as Internet hub, bridge Time Capsule for N-only?

OK I checked on the forums, but I could not find anything quite specific it what I was trying to accomplish.
I recently got a 500GB Time Capsule. I changed my network around, which was based off of two Airport Express stations – on in the office hooked up to internet & printer, one in living room hooked up to sound system – and made the TC the main hub, connecting modem to it's WAN port and bridging the office AX via LAN port in bridged mode, sharing the living room AX as WDS. This way, I had the TC in N-only mode in 5ghz spectrum using wide channels for fastest performance. All this worked well.
Except that I noticed that with the TC in the office – where the laptops rarely are – my data transfer speeds were no better than .11g speeds. So I mucked around a little, and noticed that it really was just the case that the separation of distance & obstruction was slowing the transfer speeds over .11n-only that much!
Well, it occurred to me that there may be another way. What I had intended to do was to hook up the modem back to the office AX, move the TC to the living room where it'd be "line of sight" to the laptops most of the time, and bridge the TC and living room AX over LAN. So the idea was to keep the networks separate wirelessly still, and have the internet "bridged" wirelessly from the office AX to the living room AX and then over LAN to the TC. The thinking was that the hit on the internet connection would not be noticeable as the threshold for that is well below the streaming capabilities of the AX network still, so I'd not lose anything there, but gain MUCH faster speeds with the TC in line-of-sight of the Laptops (3x as much in testing; with TC in office and laptops in living room, 1.3gb folder took 9 minutes, same folder line-of-sight testing took only 3 minutes).
However, I CANNOT get this to work properly. I thought I really just needed to move the TC to the living room and bridge it there, as the services should be shared over the LAN port since the 2.4ghz AX are in "bridged" mode, but that didn't work. I kinda-sorta got it to work by forcing both the AX network AND the TC network into "bridged mode," but that didn't seem right or wise, so I tried some other settings, putting the TC to bridged and having the office AX distribute IP addresses, but then it wouldn't show up under restart, and I'm just confused now on how to set that up!
What i need is: To have the "Office AX" hooked up to the modem & printer, on 2.4ghz since it's the older .11g model, with the "Living Room AX" on that same network. Then the TC in 5ghz N-only bridged to the Living Room AX via LAN, so it can share the services (internet & airtunes) and still get high data transfer speeds to the laptops via the advantage of Line-of-sight, non-obstructed networking.
How do I need to set this up? It's possible, right?
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OK while I was working out this morning, I was trying to think of WHY my setup wasn't working. I had an epiphany, and decided to try once more. This time, it worked.
The problem was that originally I had the Living Room AX set up as a Remote, so it was hooking INTO the network, not extending it. I know that with that setup you can't hook up to THAT station and get internet or anything, you hook into the MAIN station and you can SEE the remote's services that are "plugged in" to it.
I didn't think this would be an issue with the TC physically attached to the ethernet port, but apparently this behavior extends to the ethernet port on remote stations for internet access... I had a feeling that MIGHT be it, so I started from scratch, and this time set up the Living Room AX to extend the network instead of just joining it. Then hooking up the TC to the Living Room AX's ethernet port and selecting "Bridge Mode" on the TC got me the good ol' green light!
So, if anyone out there is trying to build a dual-band network, with their TC on .11n-only and bridge to services supplied by a 2.4ghz network, AND route their internet access through the 2.4ghz network instead of the TC so that they can keep their TC more centrally located for better performance... make sure you do it like this: Set up the alternate (2.4ghz) network as relays, "extending" the network, so that when you plug into it, the TC essentially thinks it's plugged directly into the main router, no matter where it is. The throughput hit for internet access over WDS shouldn't be a problem for US-based peeps, as our speeds are typically well below the .11g threshold anyway.
I also found that it helped to NOT hide the SSID of the 2.4ghz network; doing that kept rendering failed attempts to force the secondary AX to join as WDS. Once I redid it without hiding the SSID, all went well.

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My AirPort Express is running the 7.5.2 update and is plugged into my Comcast modem.
I keep having download/upload speeds dropping way below what I should be getting. Speedtest.net keeps showing download speeds of around 5mbps or less on average but I should be getting around 15mbps.
I've tried troubleshooting with Comcast with no improvements. I suspect it's network congestion but they just won't admit it because I've done speed tests on a weekday during business hours and it works great. But in the evenings/weekends it's poor.
The AirPort Express is directly below my desktop computer so I doubt there's enough interference to cause this slowdown.
I've set the radio signal in the AX to 802.11n 5mhz only thinking that would help.
The AX is about 3 years old. Does it just need replacing?
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Speedtest.net keeps showing download speeds of around 5mbps or less on average but I should be getting around 15mbps
You are connecting to an optimized server when you do this. All this number tells you is what speed you are connecting at to that particular dedicated server which performs no other functions such as transferring a normal amount of data that would usually be present during a normal Internet connection.
Your actual connection speed will vary quite a bit depending on what site you are visiting, how many users are on the site, and many other things, including congestion on your providers service (which they will never admit).
I've done speed tests on a weekday during business hours and it works great. But in the evenings/weekends it's poor.
You pretty much have your answer already.
I've set the radio signal in the AX to 802.11n 5mhz only thinking that would help.
It won't help your internet connection speed since that is controlled by your provider. Your AX is capable of much higher speeds that the ISP can ever provide. If you are using 5 GHz, these signals are much weaker than 2.4 GHz signals, so you really need close to a line-of-sight relationship between the AirPort Express and your computer using 5 GHz. Since your AX is close to the computer this may not affect things that much, but if you were a few rooms away, you would see that the 5 GHz signal was much weaker than the 2.4 GHz signal.
The main advantage of using 5 GHz is that you avoid other networks using the congested 2.4 GHz Channels.

AirPort Express - slow internet

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I bought an AirPort Express and conected it with my MacBook. My internet conection speed was very good before I did it (conected AirPort). Now, internet speed dropped very much.
What is wrong , where can i find some help?

I had a similar problem. My Airport Extreme takes internet signals from a cable modem and distributes over a wifi network extended by two Airport Expresses. I noticed a big slowdown when loading web pages on my iMac. My wife's iMac was downloading at better than 6 mps. When I bypassed the wifi and connected my iMac directly to the modem, I got 6 mps. I unplugged the two Airport Expresses and got 6 mps on my iMac. When I plugged in one of the Airport Expresses, my download speed fell to 100 kps. I moved my iMac into the same room as my wife's iMac. I got 150 kbs on my machine and 6 mps on my wife's. Then I changed the channel from 1 to 6 on the Airport Extreme and the Airport Expresses. That solved the problem. I conclude that I was getting some radio interference on channel 1, probably from the numerous wireless appliances around our house (telephone, weather station, solar power inverter data logging). I don't know why the presence of an active Airport Express caused the problem.

Airport Express and Internet sharing.

I have been told that I can share the internet connection, wireless, of a Mac that is connected to the internet via the ethernet port by using Airport Express. I am at a loss on how to create this environment. Can anyone help? I am trying to create a wireless network to use my itouch through internet sharing.

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Hello everyone!
I have just purchased an Airport Express (with AirTunes), to connect to the internet wirelessly. I have the latest generation g4 iBook (before they switched to the new MacBook models), and so it came installed with an Airport card, software, etc.
I connect to the internet with a DSL modem, and normally I would connect to the modem with an ethernet cable.
I am having trouble setting up the Airport Express so it can connect to my ISP, and I'm not finding the right place to enter my ISP login information (username and password).
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Does your ISP use PPPoE for the connection? If so, configure the AirPort Express (AX) to use PPPoE and you will be able to enter that information.
You will find this on the "Connect using:" drop down menu on the Internet tab in the AirPort Admin Utility.

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Will probably be judged a complete dork for this question. I have successfully set up my Imac G5 to run an internet connection through an Airport express. My partner runs a PC (Windows XP) and I want to connect this too. Have installed a USB wireless card on the PC, and installed Airport Utility, but it just won't find the Airport Express - it will however find the Imac with something like 96% signal strength. So I set up a network on the Mac and have successfully linked into it with the PC, but it soon comes up with a connectivity problem that will not allow internet browsing. So two questions - can I connect two computers to the Airport Express at once for internet browsing, or do I have to do it through linking the PC to a wireless network? If the latter is the route - any ideas on what the connectivity issue will be? Help!

No, not if the AirPort Express "joins" the wireless network.
No, I do not want to join a network.
It is possible to have the AirPort Express "create" a separate wireless network that would not have access to the Internet, but if you did this, you would need to log off of your normal network....(losing your Internet connection) and then log onto the AirPort Express network when you wanted to listen to AirPlay.
Then, when you wanted to have Internet access, you would have to log off of the AirPort Express network and log back onto your normal wireless network.
Ok, I understand that it is not possible to use airport express only for sound streaming while having an Internet connection at the same time. Airport express does need to join a network if I want sound streaming next an Internet connection. I wanted airport express not to get into way of my Internet connection because in this case the sound streaming messes up sometimes. When I configure airport express only as a sound output, the problems I encounter fade away but then I cannot access to the Internet. Anyhow thanks a lot for the answer.

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G'day all.
I've been having a long term problem with the internet dropping out while my computer is shut down. I have AT&T DSL with the Motorola modem they provided linked by eithernet cable to my Airport Express 802.11n. I have two IbookG4s and a Windows computer on the network. When the problem occurs I unplug the motorola modem from its power supply and then plug it back in. Then I see the message at the top of my screen saying "Looking for PPPoE host..." that can go on for 1 minute or an hour. Once it finds what it's looking for the internet works fine. And that can last from a few hours to over a day. Then the usual pattern is you come home or back to the computer and the internet is gone. I went through troubleshooting with AT&T and they say the modem is good, phone line is good, and check that I have the filter on the phone jack. The Airport always has a green light and I don't have to unplug it to re-establish the internet connection. Just the modem.
My suspicion is that I don't have some setting right. If not in the airport utility settings for the network then in the motorola dsl modem set up. Such as PPP location; should it be on the modem or on the computer?
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For most consumer-grade Internet service, your ISP does provide you with a dynamic Public IP address from a limited pool of addresses that they have been given. They, in turn use DHCP to provide these addresses to each of their subscribers.
As I mentioned earlier, ISPs that provide DSL service typically require PPPoE to authenticate the user before their DHCP server will issue one of these Public IP addresses. That's really the only difference between the two.
PPPoE, in turn, sends your user credentials (username & password) securely to their authentication server. Once verified, they send the IP address via DHCP.
Both the AirPort routers & computers are DHCP clients by default. That means, they will attempt to locate a DHCP server, and if successful, will make a request for the IP address. The AirPort routers are also DHCP servers and provide local network clients with their Private IP addresses. By default, the AirPort's DHCP server provides these addresses on a 24 hour lease. ISPs typically provide a dynamic Public IP address for several days ... so just powering off your computer shouldn't cause it to "lose" its address every time it does.

Adding a second Airport Express for Internet Share?

I currently use an Airport Express for two reasons - either for Airtunes (which is wonderful) and also for Internet Sharing...
My ADSL modem is connected to my eMac via USB and if I turn on Internet Sharing to Airport (in the Sharing prefs pane) I can access the internet from my iBook or G5... but this way, I lose Airtunes... so it's Airtunes or Internet and not both at the same time.
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You would be better off replacing your USB Modem with an ethernet modem wireless router and connecting your Macs to that network rather than use a Mac based software base station.
Having said that, your problem arises as you have two wireless networks, the eMac based network and one created by the Airport Express (AX).
You can re-configure your Airport Express to join (as a client) the eMac wireless network and then you can maintain internet sharing and use Airtunes.
Ensure that the eMac is working as the software base station.
Hard reset the AX.
Configure the AX (probably best to do this from the iBook or the G5) to join an existing wireless network and choose the eMac wireless network.
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Airtunes, Airport Express no internet

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The easiest solution would be to have the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) configured to "Join a wireless network." In this case, you would have to have an existing wireless network the AX to join. If you do, I can provide step-by-step instructions on how to configure your AX for iTunes streaming.

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Hi all,
Quick question that I'm stumbling over a little.
I'm currently staying at a relative's house using their XP desktop, so I can't change the settings too much without seeming like a discourteous guest! Their PC is set up with a USB broadband modem, and no router. What I would like to do is share that internet connection with a couple of Macbooks wirelessly.
Internet -> USB modem -> XP desktop -> LAN cable -> Airport Express -> Wireless Macbooks
I have added an Airport Express and connected it straight into the PC's LAN port. The AE is in bridge mode, so it does not distribute IP addresses. Instead, the PC is distributing IP addresses in the range 192.168.0.xxx. This is working without a problem, as no fewer than four laptops and an iPhone have been designated unique IPs without problem.
Unfortunately, I don't know where to go from there, as nothing but the XP desktop will connect to the internet. Also, curiously, the XP machine can ping everything on the network, but the devices connecting to the AE wirelessly can only ping as far as the AE, and can't 'see' the XP desktop.
I feel like I'm not far from a solution, and any suggestions would be hugely appreciated!
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Never mind! Figured it out myself. Turns out my relatives had McAffee running on their XP desktop. Disabled it, and everything works wonderfully.

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