IMac, Airport, and setting up wireless blu-ray player

I'm trying to hook up an LG BD570 wireless network blu-ray player and was hoping to create the wireless network using Airport on my iMac. I used these instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh336.html
When I set up the network settings through the blu-ray, it recognizes my network, but it can't connect to it. Can I not use the iMac as a wireless router? The blu-ray is a couple rooms away from the computer, I don't know if that's too far.
Anyone have any suggestions?

missuswayne, Welcome to the discussion area!
Yes you can use your Mac that way. Unfortunately the Mac does not offer the flexibility nor robustness of a dedicated wireless router. Therefore if you have problems there is very little you can do to try to remedy them.
I suggest that you purchase an inexpensive wireless router instead of using your Mac.

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