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Hi everyone,
Today I successfully replaced my WRT54G with a new AirPort Extreme base station. But I was thinking of putting my WRT54G back to use.
I have an 802.11n card in my MacBook Pro. I have 2 Macs that are connected via 802.11g. (An iBook that has a card, and an old iMac that connects through an Airport Express).
As we know, to provide backwards compatibility, 802.11n suffers so the g's and b's can work.
But what if I selected the 802.11n 2.4GHz radio mode on the AEBS and connected my WRT54G to the AEBS via ethernet? That way, the AEBS would put off N signals, while the WRT54G could put off B+G.
Is this at all possible?
Brent

I also have a similar setup, to separate out my new N MacBook Pro 2.2GHz from an older iBook and PowerMac G4. I am having problems getting good performance out of the airport disk.
Here's the setup:
-Airport Extreme (N) connected to cable modem, wireless N only
-Belkin wireless G router connected to ethernet output of AE, wireless B/G
-500GB USB hard drive connected to AE
The two B/G computers connect through the Belkin router setup as an access point, no firewall. This allows them to access the airport disk feature. The MBP is the only computer using the AE wireless and I tested both 2.4GHz and 5GHz modes. Using 5GHz proves to be not much faster and reduces the range to almost useless in my house.
Here are Xbench 1.3 disk scores
iBook alone on Belkin (B) 1.0
G4 alone on Belkin (G) 3.0
MBP alone on AE 2.4 (N) 3.5-4.5 depending on location
MBP alone on AE 5.0 (N) 3.0-4.9 depending on location
G4 ATA-100 Drive 39.2
MBP SATA Drive 30.7
I was under the impression that running a new MBP with the Airport Disk feature of AE would provide fast hard drive speeds over wireless N. I'm not seeing this to be true, which totally messes up my plans of housing a Lightroom library on the 500GB drive and using it from the MBP and G4.
What kind of disk speeds do you get with N? Any suggestions?
MBP 2.2, PM G4, iBook 3 Mac OS X (10.4.10) Airport Extreme (N)

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