Tech A network frankenstein. (Read 134 times)

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Here's the situation:

Sometime ago I bought an Airport Extreme and am extremely happy with it (Not to mention my transfer rates between PCs went up noticeably due to the Airport being N)

Since then, my previous (and quite awful) G router is stored safely on the depths of some drawer in my room.


Now, my brother recently got the 3G Iphone and he basically set the Airport to 2.4ghz A/B/G compatible, which pretty much renders the whole N benefit inexistant, not to mention the performance in general decreased. (And it makes the money spent on the router pretty much a waste)

So, discussing it yesterday, we got the idea of plugging the old router back, IN ADDITION to the Airport...

Is it possible to set the Airport Extreme to 5ghz only and plug the other router via LAN into the airport or something like that?
What should I expect when doing this?

Basically what I'm expecting is to have a 5ghz N network for the PCs and laptops and a separate 2.4ghz G network for the DS, Iphone and everything else that doesn't support N... Is this possible with what I currently own?


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Honestly Kamina I've supported/troubleshoot apple notebooks for apple at a call centre for more then a year in the past. I'm not particularly from the wireless department but I've troubleshooted more then my share of problems as well. From my experience, I wouldn't expect much (maybe just fiddle around with settings). Things seem to just get really sticky when you use two routers at the same time especially when you share the same frequency, haha.

Wait your using an Airport Extreme Base Station for two PCs? You haven't mentioned anything about a mac in your post.


P.S: It seems like you're internet is working so I would have probablly chased you away or sent you to the wireless department at this point. I don't know how much I can help but just let me know what your working with.
Last Edit: August 28, 2008, 09:45:02 pm by Macubex
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In the end, I did it and it just worked...
Also, it's a PC and a Macbook.

Anyway, I was wondering now... Is there a way to have the other router work as an access point rather than a separate net? Or do I need an Airport Express for that?

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Well... This was solved after fiddling alot with the configuration.
In the end, setting the old router as an access point worked great and allowed me to do everything I need.

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