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  1. 20th May 2009, 06:02 PM #1
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    Default Airport Extreme and Express Setup...

    Am rearranging my place a bit and want to change the way my network is configured.
    At the moment i have my ADLS modem connected to a wireless router that connects via ethernet to my PC. Have an express in the lounge that is connected to the stereo for air tunes use and have no probs connecting to the wireless network with my itouch or MBP.
    The PC is basically a work horse. It's on 24/7 for downloading, file sharing, storage etc. The MBP is used for everything else, mail, web surfing, chat blah blah blah
    Am moving the PC to another room that doesn't have a phone point and rather than run a long phone extension lead to the PC was wanting to move the modem to the lounge and plug it into the Express.
    I know that part will work but the 2nd part of my plan is to buy an Extreme to connect to the PC via ethernet. I would just buy another Express but i want to be able to plug an external hard drive in and need the Extreme for that.
    So i spose my real question is can i use an Express as my base and use the Extreme to extend the network or will it only work with the Extreme as the base.
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  2. 20th May 2009, 07:15 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cookieboi View Post
    I know that part will work but the 2nd part of my plan is to buy an Extreme to connect to the PC via ethernet. I would just buy another Express but i want to be able to plug an external hard drive in and need the Extreme for that.
    So i spose my real question is can i use an Express as my base and use the Extreme to extend the network or will it only work with the Extreme as the base.
    You can do all that.... but the question is.... why do you want to?

    How about this:

    Airport extreme.... attached to a basic adsl modem & your external hard drive (and usb printer if you have one) This would become the primary base station and be setup anywhere in the house.

    Airport express (as a network extender)... which you can use for remote speakers AND plugging in your PC.

    If the Airport express is 802.11N then you should be able to get reasonable speeds between the 2 base stations.

    Does that make sense?
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  3. 20th May 2009, 09:08 PM #3
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    The reason i had it planned that way is because phone point and stereo are in lounge and PC is going in the spare room, so Express goes in lounge to connect to stereo and phone point and Extreme goes in spare room to connect to PC.
    Airport express is 802.11N.
    Will also probably connect printer to Express and a USB Hard Drive(or 2) to Extreme.
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    It will work any way you set it up but you have to make shore that you put the extreem in bridge mode. I have 3 expresses a time capsule and an old etreem witch make up 2 networks one n only and one g only. the great part of all being apple is that it just works.
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