Will plugging an ethernet cable from a powerline adapter into my Airport Express improve the signal strength that it re-sends as WiFi?
I have a Airport Express (older style that plugs into the power socket) up one end of the house, which gets the signal from an AirPort Extreme at the front of the house. It works ok for general internet and email, but the signal at the Airport Express end is not really strong enough for my Apple TV. So today I bought an Edimax Powerline Adapter. Connected one end to the AirPort Extreme and the other end to the Apple TV and Apple TV now works great! So I was thinking, if I connected my Airport Express to the Powerline Adapter with an ethernet cable, would that improve the strength of the signal that the Airport Express would re-send out for WiFi. But all that happens is that neither the AirPort Extreme or the Airport Express now seem to broadcast any WiFi signal. Is it possible to do this?
Yes, but you need to change the mode of the Express from wireless extend to create a wireless network and the routing part to bridge. Otherwise it will indeed mess up.
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I have an apple tv, iPad 3 and airport express. Im at school and the apple tv is technically not supported by the network. Ive read that one could use AirPlay to apple tv via AE.
Can someone help me make this work? Step by step process if possible.
Thanks in advance,The router does provide WIFI, but the thing is the Apple TV will be out of reach. I want to avoid having two routers / networks. That's why Apple TV is hardwired. The AirPort (also hardwired) should only work as a receiver for the iPhone - streaming iPhone content to the Apple TV.
BOTH the Apple TV and the AirPort Express are AirPlay "speakers." That is, you can stream from iTunes to either device. You don't need both if the Apple TV is hardwired to an existing router. That provided the necessary networking for AirPlay to stream over. Wi-Fi is NOT required for AirPlay if you have a wired connection between the AirPlay "server" (i.e., iTunes host) and the AirPlay "speaker."
The Apple TV would work as a "receiver" for your iPhone.
If AirPlay is an application layer software, how may two AirPlay device communicate directly? Normally all communication is relayed by the access point.
AirPlay is a streaming protocol that runs over TCP/IP. AirPlay "speakers" DO NOT communicate with each other directly. The basic communication path is between an AirPlay "server" and an AirPlay "speaker" or multiple "speakers." Again the path between them can be either be wired or wireless or some combination of each. -
Is it possible to use Airport Express in hotel rooms ? Plugging in the hotel cable to AE, then accessing the access page / page where I enter card details if chargeable on my iPad
In most cases, this will work just fine. Connect the Express to the Ethernet port at the hotel and power it up. Log on to your private wireless network, and open your browser. The hotel log in page will appear so that you can agree to terms and pay the fees, etc.
The challenge here, at least in the U.S. is finding hotels that still provide an Ethernet port in the rooms since a majority have already moved to wireless. Ethernet ports are more common if you are traveling internationally. -
I just purchased a wireless N network adapter for the TIVO premier and am trying to use my apple airport express to connectand it is in the another room. I am only receiving one bar of strength on my network adapter. How can I raise the signal strength of my airport express.
There are several things that might help, not all of which would be feasible depending on your situation: (1) Move the TiVo unit and AirPort Express closer together. (2) Use another AirPort Express to "extend" the network of the first AirPort Express. Put the second AirPort Express half way between the first AirPort Express and the TiVo unit. (3) In the general case, Power-Line equipment might allow the TiVo unit to get a good signal, but it's likely that the Ethernet port of your AirPort Express is probably connected to your broadband modem, so that solution wouldn't work for you. (4) Changing the band or channel that the AirPort Express is using might help. If the TiVo unit is connection on the 5 GHz band, try one of the three-digit channels, which are allowed to use higher power.
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I access net through ethernet cable from my isp. so i just plug in the cable in my mac and in the browser it put the username & password. now i want to use my airport express to create a wireless network so i can access net from ipad and mac simultaneously. when i use airport express both my mac & ipad gets connected to airp exp but each of them ask for isp's username and password. i can only login from either one of them and access net in that one only. Pls advice???
To allow your Mac to "see" the HDD attached to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) that is configured as a bridge, just be sure to assign a static Private IP address to the AEBS. By default the AEBS is a DHCP client and will get a dynamic IP address from the upstream router that is acting as the DHCP server. Since this address can change over time, it would make it more difficult for network clients to find the HDD.
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Can this be done? Airport extreme connected wireless in extend mode to connect a wireless Mac Pro with an ethernet cable from the extended airport extreme.
This will work.....IF....you also have an Apple AirPort router configured to provide your wireless network.
In other words, you need to have two Apple AirPort routers to extend a wireless network.
When the AirPort Extreme is configured to "extend" the wireless of the "main" AirPort, it will provide more wireless coverage and the Ethernet ports are enabled, so you could connect your Mac Pro to any of the Ethernet ports and use that as a network and Internet connection. -
6m long ethernet cable from TC to Modem?
I'm just re-arranging my front room and it would be aesthetically pleasing if I could relocate my TC into a media cabinet about 6m from the modem. At present they are right next to each other on a short ethernet cable. Will a 6m ethernet cable (Cat 6) still carry the signal just as well between modem and TC, or will this adversely affect performance? Thanks.
RobHamac, welcome to the discussions!
This will work just fine with virtually no loss in signal quality over the shorter cable. Since you are using Cat 6, it might be better than the cable that was originally furnished with the modem.
Just remember that Cat 6 cannot be bent as sharply as Cat 5, so no sharp right angle turns. -
Can only get XBOX 360 to work by unplugging and then plugging in ethernet cable?
I have 2 desktop computers, 1 laptop computer and 1 Xbox 360 using this WRT54GS ver 6 router. The desktops and the xbox are wired and the laptop is wireless. I replaced my old linksys router which I never had a problem with for this one. If my desktop computer is turned off and I turn on my XBOX, the router does not recognize the Xbox. I mean the XBOX is plugged into port 3 and that light does not flash on the router. Now, if I turn on my computer and then turn on my xbox, it still doesn't work. If I turn on my computer, turn on my XBOX and then unplug the xbox ethernet cable from the back of the router and then plug it back in, then the router recognizes it and it works great. I have had 2 chat sessions and I phone session with linksys and they cannot figure it out. They had me go into my xbox and set a static IP address, gateway and DNS. Then she had me go into forward a few ports on the router. I never had to do any of this stuff with the old router by the way. The last guy I talked to on the phone said I need to figure out a way to turn off "MAC Address cloning" in the xbox. I checked and there is no way to do this, so I think he is wrong about this. Does anyone have ANY ideas as to why this problem is happening?
I had the same problem and I just typed my settings in manually on my xbox 360's network settings.(IP, and DNS).
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Can signal from ethernet cable from DSL modem be split? to AX and G4
Due to desktop airport going blind to wireless base station AX, want to give it ethernet feed from DSL modem, same time as continuing to connect the AX base station which will serve other computers? What is the best splitter if there is such a thing (analogous to a phone or cable tv splitter)?
There is a product you can use to share an internet connection, most likely
w/ high-speed (dsl/cable) and it is generally known as a cable/DSL internet
router -- some have 4 or 8, etc port switches. I'm not sure which one to get
or exactly how they work. I did find some additional products and ideas in
a search: [ DSL Cable internet switch router share internet ]
They have wired models and also wireless ones. To retain your own AX
unit, you'd probably want a (wired) ethernet model. I'd be willing to bet
some of the wireless ones have a pass-through port so a wired computer
could be used, too. There are several models out there; LinkSys and others.
Best of luck in isolating the correct product and then configuring a system! -
I have just used migration assistant to import photos (using an ethernet cable) from my PC. It has worked but they have gone into a new user on my MacPro. How can I merge them into the one user account.
How many pictures (or how many bytes) are we talking? Now that the pictures are imported one way to cross users is to use a removable drive (although large volumes of files preclude this).
The other is to login as the user where the pictures are, then copy them into the public drop box of the user where you want the picture.
The arrow is showing (in ths example) copy files from the Pictures folder for my user to the guest user accounts public dropbox. When you do this you may have to authenticate and you won't be able to see the results of the copy until you log in as the other user.
All users are in the folder "/Users/" -
Have new Airport Extreme conneted via ethernet cable from HughesNet Gen4 modem. Using NetGear WN3500RP extender. NetGear asks for different names for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Most of what I have read indicates extender should have same name as main network? How is it best to configure with the Airport Extreme router 802.11ac?
Different names for the 2.4 and 5 GHz networks are optional, but can be convenient for you to distinguish one from another. It's up to you.
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Ethernet cable from AE to iMac
Is it possible to connect an iMac to an express via ethernet cable rather than wireless?
The situation is: Broadband internet comes via NTL modem on the ground floor, and I want to connect to a G3 iMac (no airport card, on OS 9) situated two floors up.
My suggested solution is: Connect one Airport Express to the NTL modem, locate a second AE by the iMac and set up as a remote, then connect the iMac to the remote AE via ethernet cable. Will this work?
If so, I assume that I would have to set the network up with a Mac running Tiger, as the iMac (OS 9) doesn't have the capability?
ibook Mac OS X (10.4.7)My suggested solution is: Connect one Airport Express to the NTL modem, locate a second AE by the iMac and set up as a remote, then connect the iMac to the remote AE via ethernet cable. Will this work?
Yes. You will want to set up a Wireless Distribution System (WDS) with the two AirPort Express Base Stations (AX).
Here's how:
"Factory Reset" the AX base stations
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Wireless Distribution System (WDS) Setup
(Note: To facilitate setting up the base stations, place them in near proximity of each other during the set up phase.)
Set up the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) as the WDS Main Base Station, by connecting directly, using an Ethernet cable, to the Ethernet port of the AX, and then use the AirPort Admin Utility to make the following settings.
WDS Tab
- Enable this base station as a WDS: main base station (checked)
- Allow wireless clients on this base station (checked)
- Click "+" to add Remote/Relay Base Stations.
-- Select the Base Station that you want to be the WDS Remote/Relay.
-- AirPort ID: <verify that this is the correct MAC address for the Base Station you are adding as a Remote/Relay.
-- Auto configure as a WDS remote base station (checked)
-- Click "OK."
- Verify that the Remote/Relay Base Station has been added to the list.
- Click "Update," and then verify the settings for the Remote/Relay.
-- Allow wireless clients on this base station (checked)
-- New network name: <verify that this is the same as the network name for the AX>
-- TCP/IP: Configure using DHCP
-- Base Station Password: <the Remote/Relay Base Station password>
-- Confirm: <same as previous step>
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I plugged a HDM1 cable from the Sony flat screen TV into a mac pro book and get not sound. great picture. Help?
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Can i take a wired ethernet cable from the airport express for my tv reciever ?
can i take a wired ethernet cable from the airport express for my tv reciever ?
Yes, you can.
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Hello, I'm trying to connect my new TiVo XL4 box to my home network via an ethernet cable connection to my Airport Express but the TiVo box is not seeing the network. I have a green light emanating from the Airport Express so it is connected. Please advise.
If you have not already done so, I suggest that you temporarily disconnect the Ethernet cable from the AirPort Express that goes to the Tivo box.
Instead, turn off the wireless on a laptop and connect the laptop to the Ethernet port on the Express. See if you can get an Internet connection on the laptop.
If you still cannot get an Internet connection on the laptop, try another Ethernet cable that you know is working correctly.
Post back on your results.
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