Will the floor interfere with my connection?

I have my desktop upstairs and my laptop a floor below in the basement.

• Asked by Melissa W from Chambersburg
• Dec 28, 2009
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do cellphones interfere with wifi

• Asked by Jose M from Northbrook
• Oct 10, 2009
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Can the airport extreme connect to an actiontec router

I have Verizon Fios with an Actiontec router and I'm curios if the Airport Extreme be used to extend the range to my second floor? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

• Asked by Darren M from Hemet
• Jan 15, 2012
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Can I connect and old time capsule to a new airport extreme?

I use the old time capsule for back up and to stream music wirelessly. However, the music cuts in and out at times and is solid at other times. I suspect it is getting interference from neighboring wifi networks because I live in a town house and there are at least a half dozen networks in range. Can I buy an airport extreme and take advantage of it's dual band to stream the music on the 5 ghz band and connect the old time capsule to it and still use it for back up? I don't think I need a 2 tb drive and the old time capsule still works fine. I still have one or two b/g devices so I can't just switch the old time capsule to N only.

Thanks!

• Asked by Daniel S from Portland
• Aug 20, 2011
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Will this work with a wireless cable modem? If so, how, and what settings should I use?

I have a wireless modem that was given to me by Time Warner when I got my internet service from them. I know it will work with a cable modem, but I ask my question because my cable modem already has wireless capability. So, would this work or would it interfere with the existing wireless signal or would it not work?

Basically, I just want everything to connect to the airport express and to not connect directly to the cable modem. Is this possible, and if so, how and what do I need to know?

• Asked by Kris L from Brooktondale
• Feb 24, 2010
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I have to have my wireless router on a different floor from my printer and first computer. Can I use Airport Extreme to access printer from a laptop?

The main computer to which the printer is hard wired is on one floor of the house. The wireless router is on a different floor and has to stay there. I want to be able to bring home a laptop (a second computer) and print straight from the laptop on the printer. Can Airport Extreme allow me to do so?

• Asked by Robert M
• Dec 14, 2009
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Extending Roaming Network, Airport Extreme with APPLE TV

I have a Time Capsule on the third floor of my house in the office. I use this as the DHCP router. Wireless coverage is good on the top and middle floor, however when I get to the bottom floor the signal is weaker, slower and prone to drop outs.

The bottom floor is where I have my older second iMac, a MacBook Pro, and my home theater which has Apple TV. They all can get a weak wireless signal from the Time Capsule, but like I said it is slow and unreliable. I want to create a roaming network by adding an Airport Extreme to the bottom floor. I have heard that a solid connection from Time Capsule to Airport Extreme with Cat6 or Cat5e ethernet cable is the much preferred and more reliable way to do this.

I would need to run the Cat6 cable on the outside of the house, approximately 120 feet down from the office. There is already a Coax cable that makes that same run to provide cable TV to my bottom floor home theater. I would plan to set the Extreme in bridge mode to act as another Wireless Access Point.
Questions:
1. Is exterior grade Cat6 cable available to make this outside run?
2. Will the transmission be affected if the Cat6 runs close to the Coax cable?
3. The Apple TV device will be in close proximity to where I plan to place the Airport Extreme, should they be connected via ethernet port or connected wirelessly?
4. Would I need to set the Time Capsule and the Airport Extreme to different channels?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

• Asked by David H from Vancouver
• Nov 1, 2012
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can we have 2 separate passwords on the one airport extreme?

We would like to use 2 apple computers wirelessly having 3 high rise floors between the partners.
computer ONE 24" apple mac currently connected to ADSL line with modem ( hatari wireless HW_A101 adsl2router)

computer TWO 17" mac pro laptop.
Please advise
Many thanks

• Asked by Johannes B from Cha Am
• Oct 16, 2010
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My old Extreme doesn't work due to interference from my Direct TV Satellite. Will this new model work?

• Asked by Jon C from Chicago
• Nov 5, 2009
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What is the range of the airport express?

I have a wireles router on the main floor and my macbook will be on that floor as well. I want use to use the airport express with my home stereo equipment located in the basement. WIll this work?

• Asked by Michael P from Lakeville
• Nov 16, 2009
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