Very first airport express as repeater

is the very first airport express able to repeat wifi from AP of different brands?

Sorry I meant to say WDS in the first sentence. Then WEP.
You can do WDS to old old stuff with hopeless WEP security
If I could edit I would .. but of course that would mean the website had to work.. which is rather outside the box.

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  • Trouble with Airport Express as repeater

    Hi Community.
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    I read some of the threads here in the community and thought that I had understood how to to do that but now my Time capsule keeps switching between steady green and yellow flashing lights. On AirPort utility 6.0 I see that apparently my internet connection is supposed to be lost whenever it goes to the yellow light. I had no such troble before I changed the configuration to "Participate in a WDS". Before it was on "create a wireless network".
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    Click WDS and choose “WDS remote” from the pop-up menu.
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  • HT4259 Apple Airport express Repeat my netgear WNDR3700?

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  • Airport express to be repeater

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  • Stuttering audio from airport express...

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