Can airport extreme be switched off at night?

Can the wireless function be programmed to switch off and back on at certain times?  Being a paranoid parent, I would rather not have a wireless signal radiating in my house all night.

There is no way to "program" the Extreme to turn off it's WiFi signal. You can limit children's Internet access:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1161672/limit_internet_access.html
An alternative would be to just turn off the Extreme at the wall.

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    Sorry about my stupidity...
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    There is no way to "program" the Extreme to turn off it's WiFi signal. You can limit children's Internet access:
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    An alternative would be to just turn off the Extreme at the wall.

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    File name: P2035_FW_Update_Utility_20120105_v1_4.dmg (3.8 MB)
    line: <http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en &cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=3662025&prodNameId=3662049&swEnvOID=219&swL ang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=lj-94537-3>

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    Question 2 - assuming I can connect the Airport Express to the TC over a switched network, will "extending" the network using the Ethernet network still reduce my overall wireless bandwidth?
    Connecting the remote device using Ethernet is by far the best way to extend a wireless network because it maintains maximum bandwidth on the network. This is the way that any good commercial network is designed.
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    I'd like some help setting up my home network with the Airport Express station. I have:
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    - A new PowerBook. This has an Airport card, and I usually connect to both my LAN and the Internet via that.
    - A PC running Fedora Core 3, with an ethernet card connected to the switch.
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    2. for your setup, you must have "Distribute IP addresses" and "Share a single IP address using DHCP and NAT" enabled. There is no reason for you to mess with those settings.
    3. to manually force the Airport Extreme Base Station to dial up (or hang up) an internet connection, you need to use the Java-based utility provided at:
    http://edge.cs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/index.html#Hangup
    Versions of that utility are available for both the MacOS and Windows. For Windows you also need to install Java available at:
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    For Linux - you're on your own to compile the source code provided with this utility. Hopefully your knowledge of Linux extends to being able to know how to do that.

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    I have a d-link DSL wireless router (upstairs in my house) and a printer (downstairs). I have an airport extreme, and I want to use it to allow wireless printing downstairs.
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    Thanks Duane - that answers my question. A little annoying really as the airport express can do this, and the layout of my house means that running a cable between them is problematic.
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  • Can Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11g Connect To Park's Free WiFi?

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