Airport Express as an extender.

If you have an Airport Extreme setup and you want to use the Airport Express in repeater mode, does the Airport Express have to be hard wired or can it pick up the wireless from the Airport Extreme?

• Asked by Angela K from Clemmons
• Apr 28, 2010
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Can I use more than one airport express as range extenders with an extreme?

• Asked by Matthew J from Springfield
• Nov 15, 2009
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Can I use an Airport Extreme along with an Airport Express to effectively extend ethernet to a HDTV

I have a dual band airport extreme connected to Roadrunner serving my Macbook Pro, iPod touch, USB printer and a USB hard drive. I also have an airport extreme to stream iTunes audio to my stereo system. I am buying a Samsung 55B8000 HDTV that has a USB port to be used with a Samsung proprietary wireless adapter for wireless internet connection which I don't have. The TV also has an ethernet port that can be used for internet downloadable firmware updates, streaming internet video and some other goodies, That port can be easily set up as a DHCP connection to the internet. To avoid buying the proprietary Samsung adapter, can I use the ethernet port on the airport express to effectively extend the ethernet connection from the airport extreme to the airport express or is the airport express ethernet port only for a WAN connection and not a LAN connection? If the airport express won't do it, would a second airport extreme do it? i.e. use the LAN ports on both airports.

• Asked by John A from Streetsboro
• Jan 15, 2010
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When using in a WDS setup with other AirPort Express(es) will the Guest network be extended?

• Asked by Ben T from Napa
• Jul 7, 2010
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Can I use an Airport Extreme to extend the range of an Airport Express base station?

I currently have a wireless network configured using an Airport Express as a base station, with 3 additional Airport Express units connected to extend the range of that base station and to stream iTunes music to each unit, each of which is connected to a powered speaker or hi-fi.

What I want to do now is add the more robust Airport Extreme as a another range extender for the Airport Express base station and place the new Airport Extreme in a central location in our home. We will not be using the Extreme for anything except 802.11n range extension (e.g, no music streaming), but I am expecting that with its additional power and range, it can provide wireless connectivity to iPhones, laptops and iPads that are used typically in this core area of the home. My Airport Express base station and the additional range extension units are located in adjacent home office, libraary and fitness center rooms all located on the same (ground level) floor. The base station is perhaps 50 feet away from where I will situate the new Airport Extreme range extender unit. It is nearly of sight with two intervening windows and a single 6" thick brick/concrete wall between the base station and where I will place the Airport Extreme. With this understanding of what I need to accomplish, will the Airport Extreme fill the requirement? Every question I have browsed talks about the opposite situation--extending the range of an Extreme using Airport Express routers. My primary use of these products is streaming music and secondarily we obtain widespread use of wireless connectivity for other needs.

Another option for an Airport Extreme is to locate one of these units in upstairs in a distant, remote area of the house. I have supplied this area with a CAT-5 cable that originates in my office using an ethernet switch, so a wireless router can be added to deliver service in that area. Will this work using the Extreme? Thanks!!

• Asked by William J from Apo
• Nov 13, 2010
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Can I use the Airport Extreme as a Repeater or an Network Extender?

I work in a yard where my iPhone and HP laptop can see a wireless signal but I'm so far away I cannot connect to the signal to use it. Can I use the Airport Extreme like the Express as a repeater? I don't know if it matters but the internet signal does require a user name and password in order to be used. I'm assuming that since the extreme cost more it could potentially work with a greater range, or is it about the same?

• Asked by Michael A from Murrieta
• Apr 3, 2010
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So I have an airport extreme that is extended by an airport express. I am wondering can I plug an ethernet cord into the airport express?

And get internet from the airport express to my computer? The computer has no wireless card.

Thanks

• Asked by Richard W from Anchorage
• Nov 13, 2010
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I purchased a WRT160N Linksys router. It doesn't have the range to cover the whole house. Can a Airport Extreme Bridge (via ethernet) to the Linksys?

We also have a Airport Express. Will that also help extend our wireless?

• Asked by Madhusudan I
• Aug 12, 2010
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How do you find out the chanel number on airport express, and is it compitable with the linksys range extender?

• Asked by Jack D
• Dec 30, 2009
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Can you use airport express - to extend wifi connection, with a BT Business Hub and macs & iphones

We have a very old thick walled building and the router struggles and only gets to a third of t he rooms.

• Asked by Gwynneth J from Salisbury
• Jan 1, 2011
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