Wired Airport Extreme Roaming?

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I just thought that I would get some opinions before I went out and spent 200 bucks on a new Base Station. OK so here goes. Currently I have a cable modem hooked into the wan of the snow base station. Off of that I have a wireless powerbook and off of the lan port by a switch a wired old mac along with an ethernet printer. The base is configured to accept a dhcp and redistribute a dhcp using nat. My house is rather odd shaped and from the place where the base station is currently located...where the cable comes into the house...before the signal gets to the main usage area it must travel through two block walls...and it is only like 20 feet away but i get 1 to 2 bars of reception... I can't move the current station because the cable was way too much trouble the first time and that is were the printer and wired computer are...but I can run an ethernet cable into the room fairly easily. I just wanted to make sure that if I bought an Airport exreme base station I could use wired roaming like you can between 2 snow basestations. Ok so heres what it looks like: cable modem to the wan of the APE set to accept and distribute dhcp using nat. From the APE's lan to a switch uplink. From the second port in the switch to the lan port of the snow with the snow set for bridging and not to distribute dhcp. Also from the switch the wired computer and printer. Both stations have different "station" names but the same network name and password for 128 encryption. Let me know if this is fesable. Thanks a lot!

Chris

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    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    I will be looking to do the same thing...



    is there an apple store near you?



    I know the ApE BS is capable of wireless bridging...



    so what I am looking to be able to do is just keep my setup largely the same as it is now (basically the same as yours)... and putting the ApE BS in the basement so I can have better reception down there...



    I talked to a 'genius' about it a month or so ago... and he said that all the ApE BS would be doing is receiving and amplifying the 802.11(b) signal... so it should work.... I'm not 100% sure it will, but i don't see why it wouldn't. This way you can do what you want much easier and with much more flexibility...



    No matter what route you decide to take, let us (me ) know what works...



    hth



    -Paul
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