Airport Extreme and Airport Express Names...

I'm a complete thicky when it comes to this. All I know is that I have an airport extreme and express stations (working fine, green lights on!), and my MacBook Pro, although showing a full-strength Airport signal, simply can't seem (usually) to connect to the Internet, even when it's within a few feet of the stations. My specific question is this: Does it matter that ("Apple Network 2C0f2') (not it's real name, but like it) is completely different to my Express Base Station number (01c729). Or should they be the same?
Any hints would be welcome, this network really is practically useless.
BW
Ben

OK, let's simplify things first. Turn the AirPort Express off for now so we can get your AirPort Extreme working on wireless.
Open AirPort Utility again, Manual Setup. Click on the Wireless Tab just below the row of icons at the top of the pane. Its' in a row of items that reads something like Summary - Base Station - Wireless - Access.
Wireless Mode: select create a wireless network
Wireless Network Name: Your name for your wireless network
For now....no check mark next to allow this network to be extended. (We will later change this)
Radio Mode 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible
Channel: Automatic
Wireless Security: WPA/WPA2 Personal
Wireless Pasword: Your wireless password (write this down)
Wireless Password: "
Put a check mark next to Remember this password in my keychain
Now click Update in the lower right corner of the pane. The Extreme will restart after 20-30 seconds.
Now you can check on your computer. Click the Airport icon and the name of your network should appear. Select it. You may be asked for your password.
If it shows that you are connected via wireless, disconnect the ethernet cable at your computer. Make sure your wireless connection is still working.
Any luck?

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Making sure I'm correctly connected. Extreme and (2) Express's

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Hold in the reset button on the AirPort Express for 9-10 seconds and then release it. Allow a full minute for it to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
Unplug the power on the Express and temporarily move it to the same room as the AirPort Extreme for the setup.
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Click on AirPort Express xxxxxx
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Short version: Is there any disadvantage to be had from placing an extreme downstream of an express? Is there any reason why the extreme ought to be the centre of the network with other devices (expresses and possibly even another extreme) downstream of it?
Here is the longer version and my thinking:
I am about to move to a new flat which features two ethernet points in every room, connected by wire to a main box in the hall.
A big part of my current (and future) setup is about air-playing music to different rooms (often several rooms at the same time) using airport, and I am sure that doing this via ethernet will mean fewer dropouts, which is great.
I have been toying around with various different network shapes in my head.
The main thing that occurs to me is that it seems a waste to have my extreme plugged into the main network switch-box in the hall, which is near ceiling level, because I wouldn't really be able to use it for much there:
It is not where I need wifi coverage.
There is nowhere to put a printer near there.
There is probably not even enough space for an ethernet hard-disk in there.
In fact it's possible the extreme wouldn't even fit in the box.
I think it would be much better to have an extreme placed in the guest-bedroom where my computer desk will be, and where it can drive things like hard disks and printers.
However, I don't really want to buy a second extreme to give me one in the hall and another in the bedroom (I imagine I will buy a third express though).
So, I was thinking about two options:
1. Putting an express in the ethernet box, into an eight-way gigabit ethernet switch and from there to the various different devices in the house, including the extreme on my desk.
Internet
    I
Express
    I
8-way-Switch
I                  I              I
Extreme     Express Express
2. Using the ethernet in the flat to take the inbound internet direct from the cable modem into the guest bedroom through the first ethernet slot there, into the extreme, then back to the box in the hall using the second ethernet slot, and from there use the eight way gigabit ethernet switch to take the signal to the various other ethernet slots (and in three cases to airport expresses in other rooms).
Internet
    I (ethernet to guest bedroom)
Extreme
    I (ethernet back from guest bedroom)
8-way-Switch
I                  I              I
Express     Express Express
Does anyone have experience of either set up, or any views on what might work best? Should I expect much loss of bandwidth if I am sending the signal over more of the ethernet cabling (as in idea two, where it will be much like Bilbo Baggins, going There and Back Again).
Thanks very much for any feedback.

Short version: Is there any disadvantage to be had from placing an extreme downstream of an express? Is there any reason why the extreme ought to be the centre of the network with other devices (expresses and possibly even another extreme) downstream of it?
Yes, the Extreme is a much faster and more capable router.. it has much faster wireless. If you put an extreme in downstream setup to express it will be limited to 100mbit ethernet and limited to 300mbit wireless.
That is the short version.
Long version you have obviously thought about the problem.. if you feed incoming cable to the Extreme, route from there then feed it back to the main swith which is gigabit.. that is fine.. Lots of ethernet cables is no problem as long as they are Cat5e at least and tested to work properly at full gigabit. Ethernet is good for 100M runs on Cat6 (somewhat less on Cat5e), and can handle 2 or 3 repeaters so total length of 300M or more.. again somewhat reduced by poorer Cat5.. but in a house wiring should be no problem. A switch is a repeater for ethernet. So each time you have a router or switch it is effectively a signal repeater.
So yes you can get away with what you want by judicious connections as per your version 2 layout.

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Hi, new to this. I just bought a Time Capsule, set it up to my router and ethernet to my iMac (works fine). Time Capsule to router with a manual configuration (fixed IP from ISP). I wanted to:
1- Get my old Extreme to connect wirelessly to my Network at a remote room. Then connect two more iMac's via ethernet to my Extreme.
2- Use my extremes to distribute my network through the house.
I've tried all possible combinations but keep failing at it. I don't know fi I should create a WDS, extend my network, share IP or distribute IP.
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Hello coronelcb. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Since you will have a mix of 802.11n and 802.11g AirPort, you will not be able to extend the Time Capsule's (TC) "n" network wirelessly with the 802.11g AirPorts, but you could configure them in a WDS. Note; however, that for each base station in the WDS, the overall bandwidth of the wireless network will be halved ... so, with a total of 4 base stations, at best, you will get 54 Mbps/2x2x2 = 6.75 Mbps. Your actual throughput will be even less.
As as option, you could create a "Dual Band" network between one of the 802.11g AirPort Extreme Base Stations (AEBS), and then create a WDS between that AEBS and the other two. In a "Dual Band" network, the TC will provide a "n" network, and the AEBS will provide a separate "g" one. The AEBS would connect to the TC via Ethernet and configured as a bridge to allow the TC to continue to provide both NAT & DHCP services for the entire network.

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I have a Airport network set up using WDS and two airport base stations: an Airport Extreme 802.11n, and an Airport Express 802.11n. The Extreme is configured to be WDS main and is connected to my cable modem and other computers, while the express is WDS relay and acts as a switch.
I don't actually have any wireless clients connecting to the express. I'm using it to connect a mac with no airport card to the network by plugging it into the ethernet port on the express. For the most part, it works, and the mac gets a network address and can access the network. However, the connection speed from the Express to the Extreme seems slower than it should be.
Since both are 802.11n, and the Mac is plugged into the Express's 10/100 ethernet port, I figure the theoretical top speed that the Mac should be able to communicate with another device plugged into the Extreme is at around the same speeds as 100 mbps ethernet, since the 100 mbps ethernet connection should be the bottleneck in this case. In reality, the speeds are much slower: when I transfer files between a machine connected to the extreme (via ethernet) and my mac, the speed tops out at about 2 megabytes a second, if that.
I looked in the Airport Extreme's logs, and it indicates that the Express is only connected at 54 mbps, as though it were a 802.11g Express. I have no idea why this is! Also, the only wireless communication is between the Extreme and the Express, so one wireless device acting as a relay for another (and thus cutting the throughput in half) shouldn't be an issue.
Does anyone know why the speeds are so slow, and if there's anything I can do to improve them?

Hello Brian Kendall. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I looked in the Airport Extreme's logs, and it indicates that the Express is only connected at 54 mbps, as though it were a 802.11g Express. I have no idea why this is!
That is because you established a WDS which only runs in 802.11g. Since you have two 802.11n base station, you would want to take advantage of the "Extend a network" feature available with these base stations.
Here's a typical setup:
o If practical, place the base stations in near proximity to each other during the setup phase. Once done, move them to their desired locations.
o Open AirPort Utility and select the base station that will connect to the Internet.
o 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.
o Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then click Wireless.
o Choose “Create a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu, and then select the “Allow this network to be extended” checkbox.
o Next, select the base station that will extend this network, and choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu, or double-click the base station to open its configuration in a separate window. Enter the base station password if necessary.
o Choose “Extend a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu, and then choose the network you want to extend from the Network Name pop-up menu.
o Enter the base station network and base station password is necessary.
o Click Update to update the base station with new network settings.
(ref: Page 46 of "Designing AirPort Networks Using AirPort Utility.)

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