Using telstra mobile broadband and airport express as a bridge.

I have a telstra wifi broadband that allows me to connect 5 devices. I would like to connect up to 25 for a classroom activity. i went to the apple genius bar and they said to use an airport express in bridge mode. i cannot work out how to do this. it asks a number of questiosn that are a bit too tehcnical and i do no know how to set it up.
Please help.

Use AirPort Utility to set up your Express.
On the 'Internet' tab, set the Express to bridge mode.

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The idea behind the Cradlepoint CBA250 adapter (which I have not tested) is to create an Ethernet output from a USB (or ExpressCard) modem or a mobile phone. This combination would thus effectively replace a DSL modem that has been connected to a WAN port of a wireless base station. If your AirPort Express was used as a base station, and was working with a USB printer earlier (much like this), everything ought to be as before.
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Time Capsule using Airport Express to extend network.
Over 3-4 days my data rate gradually gets slower and slower until I have to reboot both TC and AE.
Fresh reboot gets me 10Mbs or better for a while and then slows over time to 2Mbs or less.
I can cable directly to the ISP modem, taking TC and AE out of the equation, and its smokin fast
No hair left to pull out, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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You will notice I have different names for 2.4ghz and 5ghz.. then I can force the link to either band.
After you set Radio Channel selection to Manual,, click edit. You can then set the channels.
Lock the channels.. ie you take control and you set what the wireless channels will be.. when you extend wireless this works far better. The auto channel system has to run on the Extender.. but since the main base is fixed on the 2.4ghz so it will be also.. the only channel that can flap around is 5ghz (extender) since that is not under my control. Of course it is up to you to determine which channel works best.. I strongly recommend the upper channels for 2.4ghz and the lower channels for 5ghz.
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I have searched for relevant answers but can only find different bits here and there.
My set up is as follows:
I have a Linksys wireless router running a stable wireless network for the other computer users in the house and wish to create an extended, additional network using airport extreme connected to the Linksys by ethernet to create the network and then time capsule close to my Mac Mini on my desktop and airport express at the other end of the house to try and extend the range of the network.
I have been trying for 4 days to set this up but without success. I have tried all of the options mentioned in different posts, using WDS, extending a new network etc. I can get connection between the three devices but monitoring on iStumbler there appears to be little improvement in the strength of the signal, iStumbler also shows the time capsule dropping it's signal totally every 10 or so seconds for a few seconds and then I get a positive signal strength for another ten seconds or so.
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Then the correct setting for Connection Sharing on the AirPort Extreme would be "Off (Bridge Mode)".
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Exactly. You have two routers....The BT device and the AirPort Extreme in series with both of them trying to act as the "main" router when you configure the AirPort this way. That won't work.
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Configure the Express as a bridge: Connect via "Ethernet", and set Connection Sharing to "off (bridge mode)".
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My girlfriend has NTL broadband in her house.
She has a Powerbook G4 and her sister has a MacBook.
They also have a desktop PC running Windows XP.
The PC is currently connected to the NTL cable box using an ethernet cable.
Both my girlfriend and her sister want to get their laptops online.
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2) If so, does the NTL cd-rom installer run on both PowerPC and Intel?
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