airport express

[Mr_Brightside_@]

hi everyone i just easily (!) convinced my mom to buy an airport express; she liked the idea of wireless music. it will bridge any network, not just an airport one, right? i have a d-link router. thankx

 

[mad jew]

It will attach itself to any 802.11B/G network however it will only extend the range of an AirPort network. 🙂

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

awwww. (he sighs deeply after also learning that he will not recieve his free ipod mini...)

 

[scollie41]

It will attach itself to any 802.11B/G network however it will only extend the range of an AirPort network. 🙂

Ok, this is an answer to a question I was about to post, but what is the difference in attaching itself and extending the network?

I want to hook my usb HP printer and a set of speakers in my office to the network that is provided by a Netgear router...will this work?

 

[superbovine]

It will attach itself to any 802.11B/G network however it will only extend the range of an AirPort network. 🙂

*cough cough* or buffalo equipment...

 

[mad jew]

Ok, this is an answer to a question I was about to post, but what is the difference in attaching itself and extending the network?

Well, if it merely attaches itself to an existing network it doesn't use its own broadcasting power to extend the range (distance from original router that still receive signal) of that network. It will be on the network (you'll be able to access it) but the range will stay the same.

I want to hook my usb HP printer and a set of speakers in my office to the network that is provided by a Netgear router...will this work?

Assuming your printer is compatible with the Express this should work well and be relatively easy to set up. 🙂

*cough cough* or buffalo equipment...

I've heard pretty mixed reports about this as to whether it works at all. Does it work out of the box or does it need a hack?

 

[superbovine]

I've heard pretty mixed reports about this as to whether it works at all. Does it work out of the box or does it need a hack?

the airport express runs a broadcom technology like a lot of apple wireless products do. I believe some of the older airports base stations and cards are buffalo. The people chips they use is broadcom which is what the airport express uses. BTW broadcom sells chips to buffalo, apple, motorola, belkin and linksys. Anyway it stands to reason that buffalo technology would work with an airport express because I imagine the routers that buffalo has out uses the same WDS standard since there is no universal standard for logically all broadcom firmware would probably worked together with WDS.

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/why...icially-extend-nonairport-networks-015834.php

Buffalo and Apple's equipment often works together, for instance. Linksys has chosen to use WDS as an either/or: either its WRT54G (for example) is a bridge or it's an access point. Apple and Buffalo allow either/and/or: you can make a base station a bridge (for Ethernet connected devices), a gateway, or a bridge and gateway.

but yeah it works...

 

[Apple]

I have the linksys WRT54G and the Airport Express extends the range without any additional firmware.