Hi, first post, and first real problem.
Recently went back to school and wanted to setup my wireless connection. I have the airport extreme base station, and a airport express. I was planing to have my base station as the main wds, and have the express has a wireless bridge using the wds built in. I had to disable the distribute ip fuction of the airport extreme so my school network could connect to the network. The ethernet cable was pluged into the wan port on the extreme.
It would, however, still work if i set distribute ip and pluged the cable into the lan port of the extreme, and i could connect just fine. The real problem comes with the express. I have very little desk space and so wireless printing and stereo is great. However, when i setup it up as a remote base station connected to the extreme, printing and air tunes do not work.
I temporarily got around this inconvenience by having the express as its own network that distributes its own ip, (no ethernet is connected to it, however, so no internet if i'm not pluged into a wall outlet) which does allow access to the printer and air tunes.
This DOES work, but it is a major inconvenience if i don't have access to a wall outlet and want to print. EX, when i want to be connected and find something i need to print, i have to swich airport networks to the express, print, then switch back to the extreme to continue surfing.
Any input would be great. Thanks in advance!
Recently went back to school and wanted to setup my wireless connection. I have the airport extreme base station, and a airport express. I was planing to have my base station as the main wds, and have the express has a wireless bridge using the wds built in. I had to disable the distribute ip fuction of the airport extreme so my school network could connect to the network. The ethernet cable was pluged into the wan port on the extreme.
It would, however, still work if i set distribute ip and pluged the cable into the lan port of the extreme, and i could connect just fine. The real problem comes with the express. I have very little desk space and so wireless printing and stereo is great. However, when i setup it up as a remote base station connected to the extreme, printing and air tunes do not work.
I temporarily got around this inconvenience by having the express as its own network that distributes its own ip, (no ethernet is connected to it, however, so no internet if i'm not pluged into a wall outlet) which does allow access to the printer and air tunes.
This DOES work, but it is a major inconvenience if i don't have access to a wall outlet and want to print. EX, when i want to be connected and find something i need to print, i have to swich airport networks to the express, print, then switch back to the extreme to continue surfing.
Any input would be great. Thanks in advance!
