Trying to extend a second wireless network...

Hello,
I am trying to extend a secondary wireless network in my home. I have a **** wireless n router, 2 Airport Expresses and a Time Capsule. All Apple components are wireless n. I want to have a network being broadcast by the ****, a second network being broadcast from an Airport Express with internet from a ethernet connection from the ****, extend the Airport Express network with the time Capsule and share an internet connection with a gaming console via one of the Time Capsule's ethernet ports. Is this possible? I am a total n00b with DNS and all the IP address stuff the setup assistant is asking me for. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Looks like Apple censored (d*link).
I'm guessing that misspelled the name and left out the 'l'.
I want to have a network being broadcast by the **, a second network being broadcast from an Airport Express with internet from a ethernet connection from the **, extend the Airport Express network with the time Capsule and share an internet connection with a gaming console via one of the Time Capsule's ethernet ports. Is this possible? I am a total n00b with DNS and all the IP address stuff the setup assistant is asking me for.
Yes that is possible.
If your AirPort Express (AX) is one of the new 802.11n models, configure the AX to allow itself to be extended. Then configure the Time Capsule to extend the network provided by the AX.
If your AX is not 802.11n capable, configure the AX to act as a WDS main base station. Configure the Time Capsule to act as a WDS remote base station.

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Hi All
Am shiny new to these communities and a recent convert from PC/Windows to MAC/OS and have so far been loving a simple, easy to use home computer life!
I've scoured through to see if i could find an answer to my question but couldn’t see anything so my apologies if I’ve missed it and it has been answered before.
As part of our upgrade to MAC I also invested in a TC to enable us to make use of Time Machine and securely back up pictures and videos etc. it's been working like a dream and have had no problems. but now i want to get a bit clever.....i think
Apologies for the impending "book"....
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I have a similar issue I guess.
I have the DSL(or cable modem, tried both) connected to the TC. The TC then shares the Internet wirelessly on the first and second floor(since the iMac is on the first, right next to the TC that is not a problem).
I want to get reliable network connectivity to the third floor so i have connected the TC to a Powerline adapter on the first floor and the second powerline on the third floor is connected to an Airport Express to extend the network up there.
However, the only way i could get it to work was to bridge with the AE on 3rd which creates a new network. It works great, as long as the devices are in the room from the startup of the network. If say i take the iphone or laptop down to 2nd or 1st floor and they access the wireless network from the TC with no problem, when I return them to the 3rd floor, they see the 3rd floor network but I cannot get them assigned an IP address and they are stuck wth a self-assigned IP until I go back down to the first floor and unplug/replug the powerline there.
Ideally, I'd like it to be one network so there is no switch over, and therefore no need to reset, alternatively, I need some sort of solution to let the devices get a new IP address when they return to the third floor.
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then create a secondary private network,
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Hello,
I currenlty have a wireless network set up inside my apartment using a Linksys E1000 wifi router. I would like to extend the network into a second room using my airport extreme. However, I have tried to set up the airport extreme to extend a network and it tells me that it cannot extend my currently network. I have already restored my airport extreme to its factory settings (using the reset button on the back of the airport extreme) as I used to use the airport extreme as the main base station in my previous apartment.
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I have an existing modem/router from my ISP that does DHCP and NAT with base IP 192.168.1.1 distributed in the wireless network. I use this wireless network for our private devices. I could turn off the DHCP server in this first router, but there isn't a separate setting to turn off NAT.
I want to connect my Airport Extreme (4th gen) to this existing router to create a separate wireless network for visiting guests, where IP addresses of 10.0.0.0 etc. are used. So I do not want to use the Airport Extreme in bridge mode, as I would like to keep the devices on the first network 'invisible' for those on the second network. (P.S. when connected in bridge mode, the Airport works well and can distribute a network with a different name from the first. It's just that I would feel more comfortable about our privacy if the Airport were to distribute a different IP range. False security, maybe?)
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So if someone is connected to the modem/router network they will be able to see the HD I will have put in to the AirPort Extreme?
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If they can see the HD connected to the AirPort Extreme, will they be able to access it
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or will they still need the password needed to get onto the AirPort Extreme network?
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I am having trouble with extending a wireless network using 2 timecapsules (1 is 1 terrbyte hdd, the other has a 2TB HDD.) The first one is connected to the WAN (cable modem) and our LAN. I would like to connect the 2nd one to the ethernet LAN and have it 'rebroadcast' the 1st ones wireless n network in order to expand the overall range of the network. Your help is very much appreciated.

Suggest that you download and install the much more useful AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion.
I assume that Time Capsule 1 is operating correctly at this time.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility 5.6
Select Time Capsule 1 and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons and make a note of each of the setttings on this Wireless page.
Make sure that the Ethernet cable is connected to the WAN "O" port on Time Capsule 2.
Open up AirPort Utility and select Time Capsule 2 and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the icons and enter the exact same settings that you wrote down for Time Capsule 1
Click the Internet icon, then click the Internet Connection tab
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Connect Using = Ethernet
Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
Click Update and allow 25-30 seconds for Time Capsule 2 to restart to a green light
Very important......perform a power cycle of the entire network as follows:
Power off every device in any order that you wish
Wait a minute
Power up the modem and let it run for minute by itself
Power up Time Capsule 1 the same way
Power up Time Capsule 2 the same way
Continue starting devices one at a time the same way until the entire network is back up

Can't Get Time Capsule to Extend Airport Extreme Wireless Network

I've searched this forum and read dozens of listings, but nothing I've found gives me a answer for the problem I'm having.
I had an existing network consisting of three Airport Extreme routers, one the master/DHCP server and the other two to extend the network. All of the routers were configured for 802.11n 5 GHz only service.
After much frustration trying to use Time Machine to back up to external disks attached to Airport Extremes as well as disks attached to other Macs, I gave up and bought a Time Capsule.
I have been trying for about six months on and off to get the Time Capsule configured as an extension to the main Airport Extreme as the other two Extremes are.
Nothing I've tried will cause the TC to extend the network. It always comes up with a yellow light and error messages saying that there is a problem with the wireless network and a problem with the internet connection and, sometimes, a third message that I don't remember.
After my initial efforts, I just gave up and plugged the danged TC into the remote AE that is closest to where I use my MacBook Pro and it worked. But I wanted it to REPLACE that AE instead of being an appendage to it.
Due to TC/TM problems, I've twice lost the entire TM backup off of the TC, and tonight I decided it was time to start over. I've encountered the same problems as before, and so finally moved the TC to my home office rack where the main AE is located and plugged it into the AE directly. TM is now backing up, but at a snail's pace (which is why I wanted the TC to be located in the same room where I use the laptop).
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Yes, I suppose I could do that. But if the wireless extension isn't working in one direction there's no guarantee it'll work in the other direction; and I was trying to avoid upending my entire setup.
And no, I'm not bridging the units with hard-wired cabling; I'm attempting to use wireless to extend them...NOT WDS, which is for 802.11B/G mode, but the 802.11N wireless extension mode that's available on these Apple products.

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I´m trying to extent my network with an airport express 802.11g.
I´ve been fallowing the guide:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259
however, when I´m trying to configure the extended wifi base station ( point 8.) it won´t let me choose "extend a wireless network".
The only options I have is "create network", "join network" and "participate in a wds network".
I´ve been trying to find a solution all day.
Is there anyone out there who has hade the same problem or knows what it could be?
I´ve made sure that my base station connected to the internet through ethernet has checked the "allow this network to be extended"

however, when I´m trying to configure the extended wifi base station ( point 8.) it won´t let me choose "extend a wireless network"
Unfortunately, the older AirPort Express 802.11"g" model does not have a setting to "extend a wireless network", so it cannot be used the way that you want.
The article that you reference should be clear about this:
This article explains how to set up an 802.11"n" extended wireless network.
You need to use one of the newer AirPort Express 802.11"n" models to gain the ability to "extend a wireless network".

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