Best Network HD for my wireless network

I'm looking to buy a 250gig or larger network drive which I would like to connect to my d-link hub which is connected to my airport in my home wireless network. I have a G4 powerbook that I use most of the time and I have a firewire external drive from smartdisk which works well but I have to be physically connected to it. I got the ext drive so I could put my iTunes library and iMovie projects on it and free space on the powerbook. My goal is to have an external drive that I can access through my airport (ie. wireless drive) to replace the firewire drive I now use. Does anyone have experience doing a similar thing? if so do you recommend any particular drive for this? I've hear of a WD network drive and a LaCie and even a smartdisk one which for some reason they stopped selling from their site. I have had bad experiences with LaCie in the past so I prefer to stay away from that brand. Any advice will be appreciated.

If you have a Graphite or a Snow base station you will find a network drive incredibly slow and will certainly not work as you would like for iTunes or iMovie.
To be honest even with an Extreme wireless network it would be slow.
Firewire 480Mbps
Airport 11Mbps
My recommendation is to stick with the Firewire drive.
When I have needed to move files from one computer to another on my network, I have found it (for larger files) much quicker to use a firewire drive rather than copy them over the network.
iFelix

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Folks:
My household --4 desktops Macs, 2 MacBooks, all running 10.4.x or 10.5.x-- lives by using DSL via a Netopia router controlling a LAN, with Cat 5 strung to six desks. No problem there, everything works. Note: for historical reasons --because, mostly, I forget what they were-- all desktops have static IP addresses.
But sometimes one of us wants to work in the house on a MacBook where there is no Cat 5 strung, that is, wirelessly. It's simple enough to set up a wireless server on one of the Airport-equipped desktops and make certain it stays awake.
That works, too, as long as each MacBook is configured with separate Network Preference "Locations" -- one for "Wired" and one for "Wireless", and the wireless configuration is IPv4 using DHCP with IPv6 disabled. Specifically, this requires the user to switch the Location when he/she connects or disconnects a Cat 5 cable.
My questions:
1. Is there a way of configuring the MacBooks so they will work without the requirement switching the Location when removing or connecting a LAN cable?
2. Can this configuration also accommodate what is needed for typical hotspots out there in "the outside world", as in coffee-shops, etc, again without switching the Network Preference Location?
3. Bonus Questions: Would this problem be easier if I modified the wired system configuration to use DHCP instead of fixed IPs? By the way, the Netopia Router will assign addresses in the 192.168.0 to 192.168.15 range, no others.
4. Double Bonus Questions: What are the responses to the above questions, if instead of serving the wireless from one of the desktops, we added a wired/wireless router, say, a D-LINK WBR1310B1 to the LAN? Yes, it's true, we have already tried that. (Our teenager bought and installed it without my...help.) It worked for a while, something unknown changed, and now wiring up the D-LINK brings down the entire LAN. In other words, what are the "issues" of running wired AND wirelessly, and using Airport remotes with a foreign (non-Apple) wireless router?
TIA,
Henry

1. Is there a way of configuring the MacBooks so they will work without the requirement switching the Location when removing or connecting a LAN cable?
Yes, but it's a little freaky (in other words, using the Location menu is the better solution).
To do what you want you need to setup the wireless network on the desktop using a different subnet (e.g. 10.1.x.x) and enable internet sharing (System Preferences -> Sharing).
Then connect the MacBook to the wireless network and make sure it's set for DHCP (the desktop Mac will act as a DHCP server for the wireless network).
Now the kicker is to use MacBook's System Preferences -> Network -> Set Service Order to make sure the ethernet interface is above the AirPort interface. Now the MacBook will use the ethernet interface if it's there and fall back to the AirPort if the ethernet is down.
2. Can this configuration also accommodate what is needed for typical hotspots out there in "the outside world", as in coffee-shops, etc, again without switching the Network Preference Location?
Yes. Most hot-spots will require the use of DHCP on the client, which is the same as how it's set above.
3. Bonus Questions: Would this problem be easier if I modified the wired system configuration to use DHCP instead of fixed IPs?
Yes, but not significantly enough to worry about.
What are the responses to the above questions, if instead of serving the wireless from one of the desktops, we added a wired/wireless router, say, a D-LINK WBR1310B1 to the LAN?
The setup on the client would be the same - the main point is in setting the interface preferences so that the wired ethernet has precedence.
However, a dedicated base station will offer other advantages such as WPA encryption (the Mac-based base station only offers the weaker WEP), and no requirement to leave the desktop Mac running.
From a 'which base station' standpoint, the Apple base stations would be easier to run in an all-Mac environment, but most of the major brands now use web-based interfaces which make them reasonably easy to manage from a Mac. The issue with your D-Link is almost certainly one of misconfiguration rather than incompatibility, but without knowing how it was setup it's hard to advise further.

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Thanks for the updated information.
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Click on the AirPort Extreme icon, then click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
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Enter a Wireless Password and Verify Password
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I have an Airport Extreme which I'm using for a wireless network. (The wireless router is connected to a DSL modem.) Can I also plug in my iMac to one of the free ethernet ports on the Airport Extreme to connect to the Internet that way? Thank you.

Yes, you can.

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Hi,
We have 3 devices,
1) Our Primary Network Router (which creates our office Network and has DHCP enabled).
2) We have and Airport Extreme, which is used to create our Wireless Network (THIS IS SET TO “Create Wireless Network”), it has DHCP Enabled, its DHCP IP Scheme is set to 192.168.2.x, where the IP Scheme of our Primary Network is set to 192.168.181.x.
3) We have an Airport Express that we are trying to use to EXTEND our Wireless Network.
The most important thing we are trying to accomplish is to isolate the Wireless Network from our Primary Network, so Wireless Clients can access the Internet, but CAN’T SEE or ACCESS the Shared Network Volumes AVAILABLE ON THE PRIMARY NETWORK.
At the moment, the Wireless Clients can access the Internet and receive an IP in the range of 192.168.2.x from the DHCP Server in the Airport Extreme. That part of it is working, but the Wireless Clients can unfortunately still SEE and ACCESS the Network Volumes available on the Primary Network. WHICH IS NOT WHAT WE WANT!!
Question 1: How can we have the Airport Create a separate Network, so the Wireless Clients CAN’T SEE or ACCESS the Network Volumes from the Primary Network, but can still get access to the Internet through the Primary Network?
Question 2: What is the best way to use the Airport Express to “EXTEND” the Airport Extreme’s Wireless Network? I have tried WDS “Main” for Extreme and WDS “Remote” for Express, but all that doesn’t allow you to use the Extreme to Create a Separate Network, it uses the DHCP Server built into the Primary Network’s Router. Also tried to set the Express to “EXTEND WIRELESS NETWORK”, which seems to work, but I am not sure why. Because I don’t have a cable from the Extreme to the Express, which is sounds like you have to when it is setup that way!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Kalagan

Question 1: How can we have the Airport Create a separate Network, so the Wireless Clients CAN’T SEE or ACCESS the Network Volumes from the Primary Network, but can still get access to the Internet through the Primary Network?
There is no way to do this. Any of the wireless clients of the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) can see any device connected to the AEBS's WAN port. Clients of a subnet can see anything on the supernet.
You could configure you network like this:
Internet-> (WAN) AEBS (LAN) -> Primary router
As long as the Primary router was providing DHCP/NAT the things on the LAN side of the Primary router would be hidden from the AEBS clients.
A better solution may be to have 2 completely separate networks OR invest in some type of network security firewall device to actively isolate your Primary network.
Question 2: What is the best way to use the Airport Express to “EXTEND” the Airport Extreme’s Wireless Network? I have tried WDS “Main” for Extreme and WDS “Remote” for Express, but all that doesn’t allow you to use the Extreme to Create a Separate Network, it uses the DHCP Server built into the Primary Network’s Router. Also tried to set the Express to “EXTEND WIRELESS NETWORK”, which seems to work, but I am not sure why. Because I don’t have a cable from the Extreme to the Express, which is sounds like you have to when it is setup that way!!
WDS is 802.11g's method of wirelessly extending a network.
"Extend wireless network" is 802.11n's method of wirelessly extending a network.
Neither of them require the AirPort Express (AX) to be cabled to the AEBS.

Urgent Help Required for Unified wireless network help

Dear Community
i need urget help for a wireless unified network setup to deploy it in a college
actually what is the senario for this network that i have a WLC 5500 and 12 lwapp 1252 series APs for this deployment ant there is allready an existing lan
network to connect with it the new wireless unified setup.
here is above proposed topology .
i need help for this setup like
i know the basic configuration on controller to do but i really do not know that from GUI what steps i need to configure on controller for each access points as you can see above i have three floors for building and i want to configur three SSIDs like Employ,contractors and Guest for each floor and how to configure encryption type and shared key for each SSiD.
and what i have to configure for APs to join them with controller
and hoe to configure RF grouping for each floor.
please i need urgent reply because i have tp finish this all setup in one weekonly
thans in advance.

Hi,
Wat ever you want.. the below link has everything.. Just click on the stuff that you neeed fro mthe menu and this will do it for you!!
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.0/configuration/guide/c70.html
1>> Configure WLANs.
2>> Configure AP Grouping.
Regards
Surendra

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Anytime you change networking hardware, it is always a good idea to perform a complete power recycle of your networking components.
I would recommend that you do the following as a minimum:
Power-down the modem, AirPort base station, and computer(s).
Disconnect the AirPort base station from the Internet broadband modem.
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After the base station resets, go ahead and power it back down.
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Power-up the modem; wait at least 10-15 minutes to allow it adequate time to initialize.
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Power-up your computer(s).
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