When using an airport extreme to extend a wireless modern, will the lan ports work?

When using an airport extreme to extend a wireless modern, will the lAN ports work?

The AirPort Extreme can extend the wireless signal from another Apple wireless router. When it does, the Ethernet ports on the extending AirPort router are enabled.
Apple's "extend" feature appears to be a proprietary Apple function, so it would be extremely unlikely that an AirPort Extreme...or any other Apple router....could extend a 3rd party router product wirelessly....if that is really what you are asking here.

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  • HT5022 How do i use my airport extreme to extend my wireless network, or make the signal stronger

    I have a wireless modem/router and want to use my airport extreme to strengthen the signal throughout my house...how do i do that?

    Plan to establish a permanent Ethernet cable connection from one of the available LAN <-> ports on your modem/router to the WAN "O" port on the AirPort Extreme. Locate the AirPort Exteme in a central location in the general area where more wireless coverage is desired.
    Configure the AirPort Extreme using AirPort Utility to "create" a wireless network using the exact same wireless network name, same exact wireless security settings and same exact password that your modem/router uses.
    Finally, the Extreme must be configured in Bridge Mode to operate correctly with the modem/router.
    To get everything in the proper sequence on the network....once the Extreme is configured, power off the entire network for a few minutes. Then start the modem/router first and let it run a minute by itself. Then start the Exteme next the same way. Continue starting devices the same way until the entire network is back up.

  • How can I use an airport extreme to extend my wireless network?

    I have a Verizon FIOs router with both wireless and ethernet capability. I also have an airport extreme base station, which is currently connected to the Verizon router by Ethernet and provides wireless to a MacBook in a distant room upstairs. Practically, I have two wireless network now. I have two G4 Sawtooth, which do not have wireless PCI card and require ethernet connection for internet. One of them is in the upstairs study room and connected to the Verizon wireless router by Ethernet. The other is in an downstairs room has not wireless connection.
    Can I relocate the airport base station to downstairs and connect it to the Sawtooth there for receiving wireless from the Verizon router and broadcast further to its wireless network? If so, how do I set up the airport station downstairst? If not, I know that I have get a PCI wifi for the Sawtooth downstairs.
    Your advice is greatly appreciated.
    Robert

    Can I relocate the airport base station to downstairs and connect it to the Sawtooth there for receiving wireless from the Verizon router and broadcast further to its wireless network?
    Sorry but no the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) will not wirelessly connect to the network provided by the Verizon FiOS router.
    What you could do is get another AEBS, an AX, or a Time Capsule and place that downstairs. Then use that device to wirelessly connect to the wireless network provided by your current AEBS. If your current AEBS is not 802.11n capable then you would need to use WDS to make this happen. One bad thing about WDS is that each WDS link cuts your affective wireless bandwidth in half.

  • Can I use an airport extreme to extend the range of my wireless modem

    Can I use an Airport Extreme to extend the range of my wireless modem?
    At one end of my house I have a dual band wireless ADSL modem which provides my internet connection and I want to extend (improve) the wireless coverage to the other of the hosue where my Apple TV (2nd gen) is located. I have being trying to extend my wireless network with an Airport Extreme but so far without success. I can get the Airport to join the wireless network, but I suspect that it is only acting as another client and not actually extending the wireless range. There is a setting in the Airport configuration to "extend and existing network", however when I choose this option the Airport no longer connects to my existing wireless network and I am beginning to suspect that this fuction only works with another Apple device (Airport Extreme or Express).
    Has anyone been able to extend the range of a third party wireless router / modem with an AirPort Extreme? If so, any advice that you can offer wold be appreciated.
    Regards
    Michael

    Thanks Tesserax,
    Your answer has confirmed my suspicions.
    Option 1 from your suggested solutions is not a goer because the modem and Airport Extreme are in different parts of the house making it impractical to run a cable between the two devices. 
    I did try option 2 and bought a Netgear range extender, which according to Netgear it would work with my D-Link modem - not.
    However I have managed to work around the problem (sort of) by using the Airport Extreme to create a wireless network between my iMac 27 and my Apple TV. The idea is that the iMac will act as a router between ethernet connected ADSL modem and the wirelessly connected Apple TV.
    The good news is that I am now able to play the content from my iTunes library on my Apple TV without interruptions due to a poor wireless connection . Although the connection from the Apple TV to the internet is not working I think this is most likely just a configuration issue and for me it is not really a show stopper.

  • How do you set up a password for a wireless network when using an Airport Extreme?

    How do you set up a password for a wireless network when using an Airport Extreme wireless router?

    Thanks for the updated information.
    Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
    Click on the AirPort Extreme icon, then click Manual Setup
    Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
    Check to make sure that the setting for Wireless Security reads either WPA2 Personal or WPA/WPA2 Personal
    Enter a Wireless Password and Verify Password
    Click Update to save any changes and wait a full minute for the AirPort Etreme to restart

  • Can I use the Time Capsule strictly for system backup and continue to use my Airport Extreme for all my wireless needs

    I want to use the Apple Time Capsule as an external drive and continue to use my Airport Extreme for all my wireless needs. Can I do that? The reason I ask is that my Time Machine utility cannot find the TIme Capsule - it only shows me the Airport Extreme, even when I "Rescan". SO I am unable to use the Time Capsule.

    You will need to connect an Ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on the AirPort Extreme to the WAN "O" port on the Time Capsule.
    Perform a "hard reset" on the Time Capsule by holding in the reset button for 9-10 seconds, then give it another minute to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
    Open AirPort Utility, select the Time Capsule, and click Manual Setup
    Click the Time Capsule tab located below the row of icons to assign a name to the Time Capsule, a device password, and adjust Time Zone settings.
    Next, click the Wireless tab located to the right of the Time Capsule tab
    Change the setting for Wireless Mode to Off
    Click the Internet icon, then click the Internet Connection tab
    Connect Using = Ethernet
    Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
    Click Update at the lower right to save the settings and allow 30 seconds for the Time Capsule to restart to a green light.
    You are all set

  • Just installed a new time capsule and i want to use my airport express to extend my wireless range....time capsule working with existing devices at this time...but i am not able to get airport utility to recognize the airport express.....????

    just installed a new time capsule and i want to use my airport express to extend my wireless range....time capsule working with existing devices at this time...but i am not able to get airport utility to recognize the airport express.....????

    Temporarily connecting your AirPort Express to one of the Time Capsule's Etherent LAN <-> ports...as LaPastenagure suggests....is always a good way to setup and configure other network devices.
    If you want to configure the Express using wireless, remember that the Express broadcasts a default wireless signal with a name like Apple Network xxxxxx. You must log on to this network first....no password is required....then open AirPort Utility to "see" the AirPort Express.

  • How do i use the airport extreme to extend my wireless network

    How do i connected my airport extreme up to my existing network so that it can extend my wireless through out the house ??
    Can it be done wirelessly or do i need an ethernet cable thats about 10m ?
    Keith

    The AirPort Exteme can "extend" your existing wireless network (using wireless only) if it is being provided by another Apple router.
    If your current main router is not an Apple product, then you will need to plan to connect the AirPort Extreme to your router using an Ethernet cable.
    Post back for more information if needed.

  • Using an AirPort Extreme to extend my network

    Hi, I am an astronomy fanatic and am looking for the best way to connect my Sphinx SXD2 Vixen mount to my network. It has a LAN Port. My ideas is to purchase an additional AirPort Extreme which will wirelessly extend my network from my home to my observatory outside and then connect my MacMini and Vixen Mount to it.
    This way I can control everything from inside my house where it is nice and warm.
    Will this work? Can an AirPort Extreme act as a wireless hub?
    Thanks
    Herbert

    You basically asked the same question yesterday except this one mentions an AirPort Extreme.
    The same information applies.
    What happened when you tried our suggestions on your other post?

  • Using older Airport Extreme as Extender

    I have the Square Extreme as well as an older Round one. I'd like to use the older one as a range extender. I performed a hard reset, and both show up on Airport Utility. How do I set the older one as an extender. (Whenever I try to modify the older one, I am told I have to change networks.)

    Detailed instructions are found beginning at page 43 of the manual "Designing Airport Networks" found at:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DesigningAirPort_Networks10.5-Windows.pdf
    Yes, you need to switch wireless networks when you begin to configure the second base station - since it will be transmitting a different wireless network from the main base station until you finish configuring it. It is only after both base stations have been configured that your Mac will see a single wireless network on which both Base Stations are accessible (via the Airport Utility) at the same time.

  • Can I use an Airport extreme to extend my ATT wireless network?

    Hi
    I get my internet through an ATT DSL wireless router positioned up in my attic. I have a studio in my basement with 2 computers, a plotter, a laser printer and a fax/scanner/photo printer. I've run an ethernet cable down from the attic in to a central location in my basement. I've run ethernet cable from the three printers to that same location. I want to set up an unused Airport extreme base station in my studio to connect the plotter and two printers to my wireless network. One snag is that one of my computers has a bad airport card slot and needs to be connected to the network with an ethernet cable.
    Can you help me solve this?

    OK,
    Got er done this weekend and I have extended the network to my studio. One problem though, My main computer keeps dropping off the wireless network. It connects for a second and then gone. I have solved this for the moment by disconnecting my scanner from the AEBS and connecting my main computer to the AEBS. I still have not connected my laser printer to the network, but will use its USB connection to connect it to the AEBS. I just need to go buy a longer cord.
    Things work for now and I can work on some jobs this week. I plan to search the boards to solve the dropping off problem soon.
    Thanks again for all of your help.

  • What is the difference between airport extreme and airport express, can i use an airport extreme to extend internet and also the airport express ?

    CAN YOU TELL ME THE REAL USE ?

    Oh wow, now I wished I would have researched this more, We currently have the airport extreme and wanted a backup drive and was referred to get the time capsule. So i guess i need to choose which one to use.

  • I am trying to connect an airport extreme to extend my wifi coverage and it doesn't work

    I hope someone can help me.
    I have an Apple Airport extreme gen 5.  I have a BT router/modem that I connect to my broadband and its signal is OK but not great.  I have multiple apple devices, a windows PC, and a Panasonic smart TV.
    I also use Belkin poweline adaptors to attach the TV and apple TV to my network - its flaky.
    I was trying to attach the airport extreme to a powline adaptor in the lounge to extend my wireless network - it was green for a while but then flashed orange and stopped working.
    I have now reattached it directly to my router in the same room with an Ethernet cable and still get the orange light and the airport utility keeps asking to attach to the WAN port but then nothing works - I can still acccess the internet through my existing bt modem/router.
    Any ideas please?

    Click the Wireless tab just below the row of icons
    Make sure that the setting for Wireless Mode is set to Create a wireless network
    The Wireless Network name would be the same name as the BT network
    The Wireless Security would be the same setting that the BT router is using....should be WPA2 Personal or WPA/WPA Personal
    The Wireless Password would be the same password as the BT network
    Verify Password
    Click the Internet icon
    Click the Internet Connection tab just below the icon
    The setting for Connect Using should be Ethernet
    The setting for Connection Sharing should be Off (Bridge Mode)
    Click the Update button at lower right of the window and allow a full minute for the AirPort to restart
    Power off both the BT modem/router and the AirPort
    Wait a minute
    Power up the BT device first for a few minutes
    Then, power up the AirPort
    Everything above is a "quick fix".  If that does not work, we will have to start all over again from scratch.

  • Can I use my airport express to extend a wireless network with a non-apple router?

    I have been trying to extend my wireless network in my house.  Right now I have a dsl modem/router provided by Century Link and an older AirPort express (not sure how old but it uses AirPort utility v5.6).  I want to be able to share my printer and use AirTunes.  Currently I have the AirPort plugged into the router and setup to create a new wireless network.  I would like to combine them so I don't have to switch between to print and play music.  I am not really sure where to start or if it even possible.  Any info would be great!

    If you keep the Express connected using Ethernet and configure the Express to "Create a wireless network" using exactly the same wireless network name, exact same wireless security and same wireless password as the Century Link network.....everything will behave as one "big" network, and you will have additional wireless coverage near the Express.
    If you do not need extra wireless coverage, you can turn off the wireless on the Express.
    The Express must be in Bridge Mode.
    Most users know the name of their wireless network and password, so the really tricky part of doing this is that you must know exactly what type of wireless security settings the Century Link router is using....and then match up the same settings on the AirPort Express.
    If the settings do not match up exactly, then you wind up with two separate networks that will each require their own log on.
    If you can check the setting for wireless security on the Century Link router and provide that information to us, we can tell you how to set things up the way that you would like.

  • How can I use my airport extreme to connect a windows machine to the internet? I don't have the software disks anymore...

    I no longer have any disks for my airport extreme (its pre-time capsule)... how can I connect my windows machine to it in order to get to the internet?

    You can directly download the AirPort Utility for Windows from Apple Support here.
    Once the AirPort Extreme is properly configured for Internet access you can connect your PC to the Extreme either by a wired or wireless connection.

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