My AirPort Express Has Two Names

No, it's not the title of a bad 50's sci-fi film... I recently did the paperclip reset to factory settings on my 5-year-old AX. When I went to set it up again using AirPort Utility, the device was found and given a new default name. The previous name was "Base Station ea9bd" or something like that. The new name it was automatically given after the factory reset was "John Doe's AirPort Express" (where "John Doe" is my account name). I proceeded to complete the setup to use it to print wirelessly (the only function I use it for). However, when I went into System Preferences>Print & Fax>Open Print Queue>Printer Setup, the location is listed as Base Station ea9bd. Again, everything works fine, but I thought that when I did the factory reset, the old base station name went away, and I expected that the location would now be John Doe's AirPort Express. How could the printer be hooked up to the old name and still be working if the AX now has a new name? What am I missing here?

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buy one (or two) of those newer md031 airport extreme base stations as they have a higher power output.
ur post is implying 'join a wireless network' so i dont think limiting to 2.4ghz or 802.11b or 802.11g would help..
using 2.4 or 802.11b would help over distances, if ur creating a network and joining it then thats not an option
the airport has a couple settings like power output (make sure its set to 100%) or multicast rate that might be worth trying out. multicast set to low helps with clients joining at longer distances and multicast set to high kicks off clients at distances
put the aiprort express up high on the wall so it has a better chance of not being obstructed ?? and not on the bottom of the baseboard??

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