Even for legendary Apple, WDS a total pain to set up!
Wow! It took me over 2 hours to set up WDS and I have to tell you it was a painful affair.
I have an Airport Extreme base station which I use as the main base station and then an Airport Express which I use at the remote.
That was the idea.
First I tried setting up WDS using Airport Assistant Setup and that didn't work. It kept saying unable to read configuration of the base station when it was updating the WDS settings.
Second, I called up Apple tech support and due to various reasons (my own), they emailed me the article telling me how to set up WDS.
Third, I followed the article Apple tech gave and even then I could not complete all the directions. Apple Admin Utility could not do the WDS setup automatically for unknown reasons. It just kept saying unable to read the remote base station's configuration when it was setting up WDS. It was able to read the configuration of both stations PRIOR to WDS.
Finally, I went and did it manually and what I did seemed to work:
a) I did a hard reset of the express (remote) base station.
b) Then manually set up WDS for both main station and remote station making sure I did not change any of the factory defaults UNTIL AFTER WDS was set up.
Finally some 2 hours later it worked.
I consider myself an expert on Mac stuff having used them since 1989 but this WDS set up thing was a total pain!
I was beginning to think my Airport Express might be faulty because I did buy it refurbished from Apple. I pray now that my network remains stable!
Hi Mate (I'm English).
Had same set up - tried all througth Utilities Via Application. Final setup was the olde Favourite, Paper Cip, hold on for 15 seconds, then back to Utilities,,,,, and as we say in England "Bob's yer Uncle.
Surprised you had a problem with Apple Support...... since '84, had my 18th computer (MACBOOK) and is a 'Lemon, they are replacing it.. Go to Level ONE mate..... there all computent. Stay Happy. Jonathan
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Even for legendary Apple, WDS pain to set up!
Wow! It took me over 2 hours to set up WDS and I have to tell you it was a painful affair.
I have an Airport Extreme base station which I use as the main base station and then an Airport Express which I use at the remote.
That was the idea.
First I tried setting up WDS using Airport Assistant Setup and that didn't work. It kept saying unable to read configuration of the base station when it was updating the WDS settings.
Second, I called up Apple tech support and due to various reasons (my own), they emailed me the article telling me how to set up WDS.
Third, I followed the article Apple tech gave and even then I could not complete all the directions. Apple Admin Utility could not do the WDS setup automatically for unknown reasons. It just kept saying unable to read the remote base station's configuration when it was setting up WDS. It was able to read the configuration of both stations PRIOR to WDS.
Finally, I went and did it manually and what I did seemed to work:
a) I did a hard reset of the express (remote) base station.
b) Then manually set up WDS for both main station and remote station making sure I did not change any of the factory defaults UNTIL AFTER WDS was set up.
Finally some 2 hours later it worked.
I consider myself an expert on Mac stuff having used them since 1989 but this WDS set up thing was a total pain!
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Microsoft wrote the software.
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Microsoft is responsible for fixing errors in their software, there always is problems, and sending upgrades free of charge to the users.
It is not the users job to spend weeks trying to find an answer to Microsoft Software Errors.
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We do not want a list of technical solutions that may work but according to the post do not. We have already done all the option setting changes suggested as
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Hello Krystalb0407,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
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