Using ethernet port as bridge to wireless network

I've connected TV to MacBook using Ethernet cable and enabled Internet sharing. TV can connect to the Internet, but can't use other network resources. I want to play music and watch photos on that TV from PCs connected to the network using DLNA technology. At this moment TV can't see/connect to DLNA servers.
I was able to do this connecting TV to the Ethernet port of Airport Express, but I prefer to connect TV to my network using MacBook. *What settings I need to make on my MacBook to enable my TV using all network resources.*

If I read you correctly, this is not a bridge. Internet Sharing is to connect devices via the Mac, but not to act as a router. If you look at the IP numbers, they are not in the same series (e.g. 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.2.2), so ethernet connected devices will not be able to see the wifi ones. A cheap wifi router in bridge mode would be an easier solution.

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Using ethernet port as bridge to a wireless network in a mini mac

Do you guys know how to use a mini mac as a bridge? You see I have enabled the "share internet" (via wireless) with a mini mac that is connected to the Internet via Ethernet.
All works fine, except: _the devices from the Ethernet network can not be seen by the computers which are connected wirelessly to the mini mac._
*How can I make this computer bridge?*
I have researched for a while and I have come up with the following response:
+t is not a bridge, it is a NAT. I believe u can not set do bridging on mac so easy. You have to study FreeBSD networking documents, and do it at command line.+
+Mac networking core is FreeBSD 5. Some features is avaliable at GUI (Like NAT) and u do not have to use command line complicated tasks. But AFAIK bridging is not so.+
Does anyone have any idea of a step-by-step instruction on how to do this? Or is there a software that eases this? Since I am not a network expert, I do not plan in braking my network.
Is a bit annoying as I hear that Windows can do this in 3 clicks...
Thanks for your help.

If I read you correctly, this is not a bridge. Internet Sharing is to connect devices via the Mac, but not to act as a router. If you look at the IP numbers, they are not in the same series (e.g. 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.2.2), so ethernet connected devices will not be able to see the wifi ones. A cheap wifi router in bridge mode would be an easier solution.

Can time capsule be connected wirelessly and still use ethernet ports for other devices?

can time capsule be connected wirelessly and still use ethernet ports for other devices? we have it connected wirelessly but devices connected to the ethernet ports are not working.

Not as an additional router.. the TC will be plugged into the main router via ethernet (or ethernet equivalent)..
Then the TC is setup in bridge mode. It will simply act as a Switch and HDD.
The wireless can be setup in a number of ways.
From your convenience point of view use it in roaming network mode..
you simply give the TC the same Wireless Name as the existing routers SSID.
Same security setting and password. WPA2 Personal = WPA2 AES which is the best.
But they both use different wireless channels.. normally if you leave the TC on auto it will work fine, but I prefer to control the network.. so set the main router to say 1 and the TC to 11.
You can also use a completely different wireless name etc.. that is up to you. It is still a single flat network and the only thing that is important is only having one router.

I have connected my time capsule to motorola SG6580 modem via ethernet. I have a wireless network on the motorola and a wireless network from the time capsule. I get duplicate IPs error messages sometimes. How do I fix?

I have connected my time capsule to motorola SG6580 modem via ethernet. I have a wireless network on the motorola and a wireless network from the time capsule. I get duplicate IPs error messages (no connection) sometimes when trying to connect devices to the wireless network. How do I fix? Sometimes devices cannot connect to the network because of conflicting IPs. I look on the Motorola and every device has a unique IP assigned but occasionally a device has taken the IP of another device. I have been writing down all the devices and the IPs they have been using. It happens more with PCs than Macs, ipads or iPhones.

If the Time Capsule is set up correctly in bridge mode, then it is the responsibility of the Motorola modem/router to provide the correct IP address assignments for all devices on the network.
Check to insure that the Time Capsule is correctly set up to operate in bridge mode as follows:
On your Mac, open AirPort Utility
Finder > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit in the smaller window that appears
Click the Network tab at the top of the next window
Insure that the setting for Router Mode is configured to read "Off (Bridge Mode)"
Once you have confirmed that the Time Capsule is configured correctly, everything else is the responsibility of the Motorola modem/router as far as network routing and IP address assignments for devices.
If you continue to have IP address issues, then you should contact the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provided the Motorola device to you and ask them to fix the issue.

Using Time Capsule to extend a wireless network

I have an office in the top of my house (2nd floor roof conversion) and as a result the wireless signal from the ground floor is very weak. i would like to boost the signal using my Time Capsule, placing it on the 1st floor, shortening the distance the signal has to travel.
Is this possible? In the AirPort settings I can seen an option to 'extend a wireless network using an ethernet cable' but if that is the only option I may as well just move my wireless home hub to the 1st floor.
Can the network be extended wirelessly?
many thanks!

Thanks for the clarification.
Unfortunately, the "extend a wireless network" feature of the AirPort Express is only compatible with an Apple base station.
Therefore, you will not be able to use the TC to extend the wireless network that has been created by the BT Home Hub. You might check to see if BT offers an "extension device" or "remote" that would allow you to expand your wireless signal.
The TC will need to be configured to "Join" the wireless network that you have there.

How can i browse FP 2000 via serial port same use Ethernet port(RJ 45)?

I am a new user for labview.I develope my program with FP 2000 but I have some problem
1 How can i browse FP 2000 via serial port same use Ethernet port(RJ 45)? if it can Tell me please.
  2 If I use GSM/GPRS modem via FP 2000 rs 232 port (I under stand how to send AT command) and leave it stand alone
     Can I dial modem and browse file in FP 2000 same as use Ethernetport?
Someone please help me.Thank you very much.

Hi!
    First, I can say that your project involves many things, I cannot describe all features in the forum, and I'm not used with GPRS modems (my modems are base band serial modems...).
    Anyway, I would say that in your project you should proceed like this:
      1) Configure your FP 2000 module via MAX and ethernet connection;
      2) Download an embedded application to your module (build in LabView Real-Time)
      3) In your application, you should build a kind of serial port manager, and by the means of serial port you send/receive commands from PC.
    The commands from PC can include "Tell me the about the FP 2000 file system ", or "switch on line X", or anything you need.
   I think it would be difficult to use Internet exp, because you use IE with TCP/IP, and TCP/IP is over ethernet.
   I know that for Windows you can find some wrappers that make you "see" the serial port as an ethernet, but these wrapper do not exist under filed Point, and you shoul build one yourself!!!(and that's not easy).
    For example, to browse your files, you should build a VI that searches through your file system, and reports, via serial, the files present in a directory (it's an example....).
    About communication between GPRS modems and FP2000, I know nothing. I suppose that these modems accept serial inputs, so you'll have to configure your serial port on FP 2000 with the correct baud rate, parity, and so on..... and you send your data to the modem. The modem will transfer data in its way, no matter on how it does.
    To send data to your modem you shoud take a look to some Serial communication examples. What I suggest you, first, is to connect the serial port of FP2000 to a PC, and test communication between PC and FP2000, without modems. Just direct cable connection! If you're able to do this, insertion of modems is the next step, and should be quite easy. If you're not able to make the PC receive strings of data from FP2000, over RS232, adding modems is a further complication, and you won't come out of this mess!
   So, what I say, is just build, for now, a simple embedded application for FP2000, that, using RS232, sends data to a PC (you should see data sent with use of Hyper terminal).
    To build this application, use Instrument I/O --> VISA commands (VISA open, VISA write, and Property node should be enough, for now).
   Please, let me know if this helps......
    Have a nice (programming) day!
graziano

Using Ethernet port of 1760 to connect to internet?

Hi
I wonder if it is possible to equip a 1760-V router with 4 FXO cards and then connect this router to an ADSL line using ethernet port of 1760? or I have to use WIC card for this purpose.

1760-v can be equiped with max of 4 FXO cards:
WIC/VIC slot 1
WIC/VIC slot 1
VIC slot 2
VIC slot 3.
If you use aDSL router (do not use modem) in front of 1760 then you can use Ethernet connection between 1760 and aDSL.
Otherwise you need to leave one WIC.VIC slot for DASL POTS line card.
Here is some indicative config for you:
CISCO1760-V 10/100 Modular Router w/Voice,19-in Chassis,32MB FL/96MB DR 1
S17CV8P-12215ZL Cisco 1700 IOS IP/VOX PLUS 1
PVDM-256K-16HD 16-Channel Packet Voice/Fax DSP Module for 1700 1
VIC-2FXO-M3 Two-port Voice Interface Card - FXO (for Australia) 1
VIC-2FXO-M3 Two-port Voice Interface Card - FXO (for Australia) 1
VIC-2FXO-M3 Two-port Voice Interface Card - FXO (for Australia) 1
VIC-2FXO-M3 Two-port Voice Interface Card - FXO (for Australia) 1
CAB-AC Power Cord,110V 1
MEM1700-64U96D Cisco 1700 64MB to 96MB DRAM Factory Upgrade 1
PVDM-256K-4 4-Channel Packet Voice/Fax DSP Module 1
CON-OSP-1760V 24x7x4 Onsite Svc, 10/100 Modular Router w/Voice IP/VOICE P 1
Regards,
Vakhtang

My macbook pro connects online to my cable modem by by using ethernet only - I lost my wireless feature - help

my macbook pro connects online to my cable modem by by using ethernet only - I lost my wireless feature - help

Did it ever work?

Time Capsule is connected wirelessly and I need to use ethernet ports for other devices.

I have a 1st Gen Time capsule 802.11n and an Airport Extreem round hockey puck style. My airport utillity program is version 6.2 My OS is 10.7.5 My internet is from a verizon hot spot Jetpak. All my devices, laptop, desk top, printer, and time machine are running off this jetpak.
How can I use the ethernet ports on the back of my time capsule for a device that I had pluged in to my airport extreem? Before I had verizon, I had hughes net for my internet provider. My time capsule was the main unit in a WDS network with the airport extreem. I no longer have Hughes Net and I need to run this item that was pluged into the airport extreem ethernet port.
Of course with the newer airport utillity software (6.2) I can not control the older airport extreem anymore. This does not help my situation

You need to load the older utility.. 5.6 is still available for lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
WDS is hidden option so hold down the option key..
But I would search around for a cheap airport extreme N square type.. doesn't matter how old and you can pick up the older ones for $50 or so easily.. Then you use wireless extend which works much better than WDS. Using WDS you are killing wireless speed for everything.

Bridge a wireless network using the dual radios?

I have an existing wireless network. It is from a Dlink wireless-n router, which shares my internet connection. I cannot connect to it using ethernet. It doesn't support WDS.
If I use an Airport Extreme with dual bands, can I do all of the following:
1) Use the 2.4Ghz radio to connect to the Dlink wireless network using wireless-n.
2) Use the 5Ghz radio to create a new wireless network using wireless-n.
3) Have all of my MacBooks (using wireless-n 5ghz) connect to the 5Ghz network
If this is all successful, will the MacBooks have access to the internet? Will the Airport Extreme bridge the two networks together?

Welcome to the discussions Daniel!
1) Use the 2.4Ghz radio to connect to the Dlink wireless network using wireless-n.
No
2) Use the 5Ghz radio to create a new wireless network using wireless-n.
Yes if you connect the AirPort Extreme to the D-Link using an ethernet cable
3) Have all of my MacBooks (using wireless-n 5ghz) connect to the 5Ghz network
Yes if the MacBooks can receive a strong enough signal
will the MacBooks have access to the internet?
Yes, if you connect the AirPort Extreme to the D-Link with a permanent ethernet cable connection and you configure the AirPort Extreme in bridge mode.

Unable to activate ethernet port to bridge airport network to wired clients

Hi,
I have two AE setup in a WDS arrangement. The WDS is working fine. My problem is that I want to connect wired clients to the remote station; but everytime I select "Enable ethernet port" and restart the AE, the option is unchecked and the ethernet port is disabled.
Can you help?
Many thanks,
David.

... everytime I
select "Enable ethernet port" and restart the AE, the
option is unchecked and the ethernet port is
disabled.
I saw similar behavior in my setup. I seem to have gotten it working now.
Finally, I actually attached an ethernet cable and wired client to the AE Ethernet port (instead of just trying to configure it without an actual client connected, which I tried several times). After that, when I checked the box for Enable and restarted the AE, it worked.
Did you get yours working?

Share Airport Connection to Ethernet port in BRIDGE mode?

I've been trying to do this for a while now, but I haven't been able.
I have the modem form my ISP hooked to a Airport Express configured in BRIDGE mode, thus creating a wireless network for my home with "live" IPs for all the computers (yes... I know the security risks...).
My G4 (across the room) gets Internet from it's Airport Card and I configured the Share Internet preference pane to "Share the Internet Connection from the Airport to the Ethernet Port", so I can create (...extend, really) a WIRED network from my G4's Ethernet Port.
The thing is that I want this wired network to have also "live" IPs, but the Airport Card always has the "Distribute IP Addresses" (or it's equivalent, from the Airport Admin Setup) activated, so it provides a 192.168.X.X network and I can't find a way to turn that off.
In other words, I want it to acts as a BRIDGE and not as DHCP Server.
Anyone?
TIA

I was trying to use IPNetShareX to configure it, but I didn't find a way. I'll keep looking...
http://www.sustworks.com/site/prodgnatoverview.html
Thanks anyway

Using wired Airport Express to extend wireless network

Hello,
I am considering getting an Airport Express to extend my wireless network in a part of my house where it's really weak. The room I want to use it in actually has an Ethernet network drop and it is connected to my Airport Extreme on the other side of the house.
I've looked at the manual, and the only example it gives for extending a network is wireless. Since the network is very weak where I want to use it, I was wondering whether I could use the Ethernet port for the incoming signal. Is that possible?
I have an older AX (the b/g model) that I use in a similar way: it's on an ethernet port, but it broadcasts its own, different (slower, since it's the older model), wi-signal. So I didn't want to do that: I'd like the new unit to be practically transparent and broadcast the same wi-fi as the main signal.
Has anyone else had a similar experience and if so, could you let me know if this is possible?
Thanks!

I was wondering whether I could use the Ethernet port for the incoming signal. Is that possible?
Yes
I'd like the new unit to be practically transparent and broadcast the same wi-fi as the main signal.
Configure the new AirPort Express as follows using AirPort Utility - Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab located below the row of icons to assign a name to the Express, a device password and adjust Time Zone settings
Click the Wireless tab and configure as follows:
Wireless Mode = Create a wireless network
Wireless Network Name = Exact same name as your AirPort Extreme network
Radio Mode = 802.11n (802.11b/g comatible) is a good general choice
Channel = Automatic
Wireless Security = Exact same setting as the AirPort Extreme network
Wireless Passwrod = Same password as the AirPort Extreme network
Confirm Password
Click the Internet icon
Click the Internet Connect tab
Connect Using = Ethernet
Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
Update to save settings and allow the Express to restart
Very important...power down the entire network...all devices....order is not important
Wait a few minutes
Start the modem first and let it run for a few moments by itself
Start the AirPort Exreme the same way
Start the AirPort Express the same way
Start other devices one at a time about a minute apart
You now have what is known as a "roaming" network. Computers will automatically log on to the router with the strongest signal as they "roam" around the house.

Using the iMac to create a wireless network. Is it possible?

At my college, we are not allowed to have routers. We can use switches that allow us to share the connection among many computers. I have a wired Intel iMac. I want to know if I use iMac to create a wireless network that way I can connect my Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.

It is not possible to do this, but this will solve your problem:
Wireless-G Linksys Access Point
Add High-Speed Wireless Access To Your existing Wired Network!
This is not a router, so you are probably allowed to use this. This will bridge your ethernet signal to a wireless signal.
Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem.
(please see the "helpfull" and "solved" button's above this message)

Using the Airport express as a wireless network adapter

I have a mac with no wireless network card but I have an extra Airport express. I would like to plug the mac into teh ethernet port of the AE and then use it to get onto my homes wireless network...
Is this possible? I have been trying to do this for hours and I cannot get a config that works. I can use it to setup a wirless printer just fine, why not my computer?
Please help!!

I'm having the same networking problem. Out of curiosity, though, how would you plug the mac into the ethernet port of AE? Wouldn't you have to plug the modem into the ethernet port? My Airport Express only has one ethernet port. Just curious how you would get internet to your AE without plugging the modem to it.
I went out and bought a LinkSys switch, trying to alleviate my problem of having to switch between being able to use my Mac Pro desktop (wired, due to no wireless card yet) and being able to use my laptops, PS3, etc. wirelessly by switching the ethernet cable constantly from the Mac Pro to the Airport Express. So, I bought the switch, but I can't get my network configured to where I can run everything at the same time. I'm still having to switch cables around. Any suggestions? Or do I just have to bite the bullet and have the wireless card installed?

Using ethernet port as bridge to wireless network

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