How to set up AEBS dual band as single network?

As I have it now, when I open Network Prefs and click on Advanced, I see two networks listed: my 5GHz network and presumably, my 2.4GHz nbetwork. The problem is that although I've listed my 5GHz network as my preferred network, it continually chooses the 2.4GHz network? Or that is what I see when I cherck my wi-ifi status in my menu bar. I'm not sure why that is, but I've read that if I create a single network, my AEBS will automatically choose the appropriate network? If this is so, I'ds like to eliminate ther 2.4GHz network.

so I thought if I was able to merge both bands, then I could eliminate this happening?
You cannot "merge" both bands....they will always be separate signals....but you can assign the same wireless network name to both bands. That is the default setup for the AEBS, and the setting that most users should use.
Your Mac will connect to either the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz band automatically.
Your Mac will connect to the band that it thinks is the best quality.
Best "quality" does not necessarily mean the faster speed band. The Mac is looking for the best combination of speed, signal strength, low noise, interference and other things that Apple engineers won't tell us about.
Try removing the check mark in the box next to 5 GHz network name in AirPort Utility and test things out. You may find them better, or worse.

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Lots of people are reporting problems caused by replacing an existing wireless network with the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station.
* Xbox360 compatibility.
* Airtunes issues
* 802.11n slowed down by 802.11g devices
One workaround is to set-up a dual-band network. Your old 802.11g base station looks after the older "g" devices. And the new Airport Extreme looks after the 802.11n devices.
There are a number of benefits to this solution.
* Everything that did work, carries on working. No reconfiguring needed.
* Everything works at its fastest possible speed. You can use the full 270Mb 5Ghz band for n devices.
* 802.11g traffic does not interfere with 802.11n traffic at all.
* It's easy to set up.
The downside is
* There are two boxes. I want one.
This is the diagram (again)
Note that in this configuration, the new Airport Extreme base station is set-up in Bridging Mode.
Glyn

I've done some testing and here are my findings:
- 2 Computers, 1 C2D N enabled and iMac G only in 2 diff rooms
- 2 AX to stream music
- Transfer of a 446 Mb avi file from Airdisk to C2D
- 2 Wifi Networks: 1) G only from a Netopia 2) Depending from settings from AE(n), Both Base Station are placed aside. When G network is available both AX are connected.
- With or No airtunes means a stream to the 2 AX from iMac while transferring the 446 Mb file to the C2D.
446 MB / AE(n) 5 Ghz N / No Airtunes / Netopia Off / 2:47
446 MB / AE(n) 2.4 Ghz N Only / Auto Ch / No Airtunes / Netopia Off / 2:13
446 MB / AE(n) 5 Ghz N / No Airtunes / Netopia On / 3:14
446 MB / AE(n) 5 Ghz N / With Airtunes / Netopia On / 3:20
446 MB / AE(n) 2.4 Ghz N Only / Auto Ch/ No Airtunes / Netopia On / 2:29
446 MB / AE(n) 2.4 Ghz N Only / Auto Ch / With Airt / Netopia On / Unusable
446 MB / AE(n) 2.4 Ghz Mixed / Auto Ch / No Airtunes / Netopia Off / 2:17
446 MB / AE(n) 2.4 Ghz Mixed / Auto Ch / With Airtunes / Netopia Off / 3:03
Here are the findings:
- Without any G network (meaning no Airtunes possible) the 2.4 Ghz N Only performs much better than the 5 Ghz N
- While streaming Music the 2.4 Ghz Mixed performs better then the 5 Ghz N (Dual Band Network)!
These are my findings with my settings, it could be different, but I'm pretty sure you will find the same behavior on your side. And BTW, the theoretical thru-put means nothing, only real life usage testing is worth something. So on my side I'm going for a single mixed network.
Hope this sheds light for some of you.
Micha

Adding AEBS Dual-Band to home network

I'm looking for advice on the best way to add an AEBS Dual-Band to my home network. Here's my current setup:
DSL --> Actiontec GT724 modem/router --> Gigabit switch --> 2 Macs, 1 PC, 1 AppleTV, AEBS
On the AEBS I have the Internet Connection Sharing set to "Off (Bridge Mode)".
The problem I have with this setup is that I can't take advantage of the "Guest Network" feature of the new AEBS.
If I change the Internet Connect Sharing to "Distribute a range of IP addresses" will I need to disable the DHCP server on the DSL modem/router?
Do I need to physically move the AEBS between the DSL modem/router and my gigabit switch?

I agree with the recommendation to put the AEBS directly after the DSL. You may have to change the DSL to Bridge mode instead of simply turning off DHCP. Your ISP should be able to help you with that.
Your requirement for a second Ethernet cable can be eliminated with a pair of Ethernet splitters as you only need 4 of the 8 wires already run upstairs. This will allow your outside WAN to come up and then return your inside LAN to go down to the switch.
http://www.cablesunlimited.com/products/Prod_Individual3.aspx?groupcode=I2981

Is the New MacBook Air Wifi N Dual-Band or Single-Band?

Is the New MacBook Air Wifi N Dual-Band or Single-Band? I cannot find any official information regarding this.
I have a Dual-Band router up to 450+450 and I'd like to know if the Mac would make the most of what I have.
Another related question would be… if the MacBook's Wifi could take up to 450mbs or would it only reach up to 300mbs?
Thank you!

Thank you Captfred for the quick clarification. A related question (and this might be obvious, I'm not sure) would be if the MBA uses single or dual antenna? I am not sure if N technologies always use dual antenna by default? The reason why I'd like to understand this is because I do watch quite a bit of streaming video. I supposed streaming through a single antenna could clog the connection quite a bit if at the same time I'm browsing other websites or download something else at the same time? While having two antennas would ease the communication by sending a request through one antenna and receiving the response through the other?
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M

AEBS Dual Band - weird connectionspeeds

Hi folks, hi Apple,
got the new dualband AEBS and I am experiencing following problem(s):
When I set my AEBS wireless setting to automatic, networkutility reports an connectionspeed of 130mbit/s, but when ich trie ro change the setting I get some strange results.
Restarted the AEBS with the setting "N Only 5GHz - b/g " -> 300Mbit/s
Disconnected my MBP and reconnected it -> 54Mbit/s
Restarted the AEBS with the setting "N Only 5GHz - N only 2,4GHz " -> 300Mbit/s
Disconnected my MBP and reconnected it -> 300Mbit/s
(obviously my iphone can't connect)
Restarted the AEBS with the setting "a/n - g only " -> 300Mbit/s
Disconnected my MBP and reconnected it -> 54Mbit/s
Am I doing something wrong or can anyone confirm this?
And by the way, when I trie to play a homemovie which is stored on my airdisk it now stutters this didn't happen with my previous AEBS... In iStatpro it seems that the connection breaks down vom 5mb/s to 0kb/s every few seconds and gets immediately up again.
and my bootcamp xp installation also can't connect to the dualband network, just to the guestnetwork I set up...
Help would be appreciated!
P.S. Sorry if I made any mistakes, english is not my first language.
Greetings
Dave

Thanks for your post!
The video playback stutters with N 5Ghz 300mbit/s, N 2,4GHz 130mbit/s and G 54mbit/s.
What I also noticed on every band and connections speed:
When I copy a file from my airdisk to my MacBook, iStat pro shows my the incoming speed and it goes something like this:
3mb/s, 4mb/s, 0kb/s, 3mb/s, 4mb/s, 0kb/s, 3mb/s, 4mb/s, 0kb/s and so on.
So it seems that the connection breaks down and goes up right after that.
I think this why the movie stutters and why the speed isn't what it should be...

Setting up a Dual Band (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Network

My setup:
cable modem, 2 gigabyte switch, N router, G router (non apple).
I would like to set a separated band network to prevent the slow down of my N network by G users.
I have read the recent DesigningAirPortExtreme802.11nNetworks.pdf apple released which is helpful but leaves some ambiguity for me as far as the design is concerned.
I would appreciate some advice on the fllowing questions:
1. should I daisy chain the routers followed by the switch or hang both routers from the switch (along with other wired devices).
2. should I leave each router to serve it's own DHCP or should I have only one DHCP server on the whole network.
3. if each device manages its own DHCP should they have different masks.
Being self taught, these questions may reveal some underlying misunderstanding of a networking principles, please correct me if needed.
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--Ami

Thank you Duane, I think you answered my most important questions.
There is a discussion in the Apple publication on WDS that suggest the following is possible (under the WDS tab of the base station software). My design however is somewhat different.
With a design of cable modem to switch, both routers hard wired to the switch, one has DHCP diabled, the other serves the network. Limit the N router to transmit only in the 5G band to prevent G user from connecting to it. (I hope it makes sense without a drawing)
Is it possible to register the two router MACs under one router, so they appear as a single network with one ssid/password? making it simple for users to connect and automatically default to the right frequency connection?
It would be easier to leave it as two separate SSIDs but not as elegant.
--Ami

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Well, I've got this set up mostly working except the 802.11n part. Not matter what I do, It seems only operating in g mode. I made my AE creating a 5Ghz network but I couldn't find this network anywhere. Not on my iPad, not on my iMac.
I'm wondering if I have a defective AE. The seller on eBay told me he used the 11n network just fine. The router is still under warranty, I'm wondering if I should ask Apple for a repair? But since I'm pretty new to Mac in general, I figure there might be something I just missed and hence this post. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I do have an AX that extends the AE network. There is nowhere on AX that I can specify radio mode, once I specified it to extend a network. I assume AX talks to AE over the n network and then extends the network to be g compatible? Sounds really strange.
Maybe not too strange. Since the AX is a single-band device, it can only extend the AEBSn's 2.4 or 5 GH radio, at a time, not both simultaneously. Since your iPhone was able to connect, most likely, it was extending the 2.4 GHz radio ... which was also configured to support "g" devices. What I haven't figured out is how, if you set the AEBSn's Radio Mode to "n only" why non-"n" are still able to connect when the network is extended.
... I chose to create a different network name for 5Ghz radio as something like: MID-EARTH (5 GHz). However I can't seem to find this network anywhere. I'm wondering why this is the case? Is my AE somewhat defective?
This may be a completely different issue than the extended network one. If you remove the AX from the network equation, wireless clients should see two different Network Names or SSIDs ... one being "MID-EARTH (5 GHz)" and whatever you called the 2.4 GHz network. That is, assuming that the client is capable of accessing both bands. If this is not the case, we would need to revisit your AEBSn's configuration settings.

Adding Wireless-N-ONLY Time Capsule to Dual-Band Airport Extreme Network?

I have a dual-band airport extreme which I have configured to create both a wireless-a/b/g/n SSID on my network, as well as a second SSID which is Wireless-N-ONLY (meant to be used with my Time Capsule so that all backups to the Time Capsule via Time Machine are only ever done via Wireless-N).
My Airport Extreme is already configured, and now I just have to configure my Time Capsule on my network...
Can someone briefly run through the "assist me" steps in the Airport Utility that I'd want to follow to configure my Time Capsule so that it's available on my dual-band base station's wireless-N-ONLY network and so that it's not transmitting or receiving any other wireless protocol other than wireless-N?
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for your earlier feedback. I now have a dual band TC and the previous dual band EABS and I'm tearing my hair out trying to get these things to play nice! Maybe you can provide some assistance:
1) The TC upstairs is connected to the comcast modem and is the main 'router' in my network. In addition, I'm using the "create wireless network" option on this router to set up both a 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz wireless environment.
2) The AEBS downstairs on the opposite end of the house is connected by ethernet - whole house is wired so I'm feeding from the TC upstairs through a switch in the disti box down to an outlet where I have the AEBS. The cat-5 cable is connected to a LAN port on the back of the AEBS.
3) I have the AEBS set up to extend the wireless network. When I do this it only gives me the ability to select one wireless network (I have the TC configured to call the 5 GHz network something different) - In essence doesn't appear to want to let me extend both bands of the wireless network.
The problem seems to be that once I get all the configurations set I have no connectivity and if I try to open the configuration via Airport Utility, its just a spinning gear and will never open to show the settings. This happens to with both the TC and the AEBS. It's like it's in a loop or something.
I immediately disconnect the AEBS from the network and suddenly all is well again.
I know this seems like a rant, but this has been kicking my a** for two days!! I've just about had it with the constant 'hard reset' of the routers and starting over with configuration. If you have any specific things I should do, or settings that are key to set up both devices to extend my wireless network throughout the house I would be so thankful!!
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Hi,
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Edited by: Roger Arce on Apr 17, 2009 12:14 PM
Edited by: Roger Arce on Apr 17, 2009 12:15 PM

Hai Roger Arce
Better you post your question in SDK forum
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You do indeed need to have a master zone on lion server. There's no way to get around that since Open Directory depends on Kerberos and Kerberos depends on the DNS. LS scripts may see that the rDNS record exists, but I highly doubt that it'll auto configure everything for you... and given the number of possible variables, I bet that even if it worked something would need additional tweaking.
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The server set up that I have works similarly. I have an internal master DNS that is replicated to a secondary. The first DNS has an A record (community.server.com) that points to the INTERNAL ip address of the secondary server that's also running the web service. The first server is running DHCP. It tells the clients to use the first and second servers as it's DNS lookup.
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