TuckerdogAVL
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I purchased the new airport express2009 (APE) to bridge with my older airport express(APE2005), to help my ORIGINAL Airport card G4 in the back bedroom. But, frankly there doesn't seem to be much of a difference.
Is this because the new airport express is "N", the OLD APE is G/B bridging to an original airport card G4? I really did think that it would at least give it a boost.
Interestingly, if I remove the APE2005 (G/B cap?) now as a bridge, the G4 cannot connect to the internet. It can't find the newer APE and I thought that should actually at least have a little better range than the 05APE. (The 2006Macbook 20 feet from it though zooms along).
So, is it just because of the backward tech? (I'm not seeing more than 2 "fanmarks" for the airport fan...which is what I saw before....but, the pages do seem to load somewhat faster (all relative).
As an aside (and perhaps I should do a run-down for the "How tos):
After lots of intuition and counter-intuitive and deductive reasoning I was able to get them both paired as the "help instructions" are not very descriptive. Sort of like you need to know exactly what you are doing (like the difference in creating a wireless network and creating a WDS...apparently there is a difference...and other minor things like being sure the settings for the remote are "going green" prior to attempting to set up the new base station.
Very important Hint: If you are bridging two AEs make sure the network you've chosen is identical and so is the password before doing anything with the new one ie get all the old information, etc compiled and then configure the new one. In other words, don't plug in the new one, assign a new network name and password, then attempt to network the two. Otherwise, you may spend about ten hours on doing soft reboots, hard reboots, modem disconnects, reconnects, renames, etc on this like I did. The information I just shared with you is on page 16 and STEP 4 of a 4 step process. So, take heed.
Is this because the new airport express is "N", the OLD APE is G/B bridging to an original airport card G4? I really did think that it would at least give it a boost.
Interestingly, if I remove the APE2005 (G/B cap?) now as a bridge, the G4 cannot connect to the internet. It can't find the newer APE and I thought that should actually at least have a little better range than the 05APE. (The 2006Macbook 20 feet from it though zooms along).
So, is it just because of the backward tech? (I'm not seeing more than 2 "fanmarks" for the airport fan...which is what I saw before....but, the pages do seem to load somewhat faster (all relative).
As an aside (and perhaps I should do a run-down for the "How tos):
After lots of intuition and counter-intuitive and deductive reasoning I was able to get them both paired as the "help instructions" are not very descriptive. Sort of like you need to know exactly what you are doing (like the difference in creating a wireless network and creating a WDS...apparently there is a difference...and other minor things like being sure the settings for the remote are "going green" prior to attempting to set up the new base station.
Very important Hint: If you are bridging two AEs make sure the network you've chosen is identical and so is the password before doing anything with the new one ie get all the old information, etc compiled and then configure the new one. In other words, don't plug in the new one, assign a new network name and password, then attempt to network the two. Otherwise, you may spend about ten hours on doing soft reboots, hard reboots, modem disconnects, reconnects, renames, etc on this like I did. The information I just shared with you is on page 16 and STEP 4 of a 4 step process. So, take heed.