Re: double duty for an airport express?

2010-07-11 Thread Esther

Hi Mary,

You can definitely extend the range of your Airport network and still  
use your Airport Express (in the extended location) to stream music to  
a stereo. Basically, each Airport Express unit can either function as  
a separate wireless router with its own IP address, or as an extension  
of an Airport wireless network.  In the first mode, that unit takes  
command of distributing addresses to components, in the second mode,  
the unit joins an existing network, and uses the address assignment of  
the main router, but relays on information to extend the network.   
Airtunes streaming is a feature that is built into the Airport  
Wireless network, so it will operate whether the range of your network  
is defined by a single Airport Express, Airport Extreme, or other  
Airport base station that acts as the main Airport router, or by one  
of these devices with attached other Airport devices working as relays  
to extend the network.


The best explanation I've read of wireless networking and how these  
Airport devices work is in the Take Control book series. I got the  
earliest version of the book that has now become "Take Control of Your  
802.11n AirPort Network" when I got my first Mac (dating back to the  
original macvisionaries list at a time when I was still using dial-up  
modem to read the list posts -- the Airport Express was connected to  
my printer, so I could print from my laptop).  They also describe  
options for running mixed networks including older, existing (non- 
Apple) routers.  Current setups are so simple that you probably don't  
need this volume, but if you do need more information, or if you want  
to find out ways to take advantage of new features in the existing  
Airport devices that are not particularly detailed, like running dual- 
band networks, or supporting guest log-ins, this book is a great  
source of information.


I''ll add that I've recently spotted some list posts from Tim Kilburn.  
Tim has historically been a great source of information on these  
topics (on lots of basic Mac topics, actually), and it's wonderful to  
see him back after a fairly lengthy break. Doubtless the combined  
experience of having to work in a school environment and deal with  
students (requiring good pedagogical explanations), and large networks  
of Macs, has all combined to make his posts so good. He has far more  
experience than I do with Airport networks, so maybe he'll weigh in  
with some helpful comments.


Cheers,

Esther

On Jul 11, 2010, Mary Otten wrote:


Hi all,
I wonder if anyone on the list has tried to do two things with one  
airport express. If you've ever set one up, you know that there is a  
point in the simple set up where it asks you what you want to do,  
i.e. extend an existing network, use it with Itunes/air tunes etc. I  
forget exactly how the choices are worded. I have a couple of these  
units connected to stereo receivers for streaming media from my Mac.  
I'd really like to use one of them to extend the range of the  
network and still stream music to a stereo. Can that be done? I'm  
thinking of getting an airport extreme router to replace an aging  
linksis that still works but does not support newer protocols. But  
even if I don't do that, I'd really like to have one of these 2  
airport expresses do double duty. thanks for relating your  
experiences in this area, if any.


Mary

Mary Otten
motte...@gmail.com




--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"MacVisionaries" group.
To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.



double duty for an airport express?

2010-07-11 Thread Mary Otten
Hi all,
I wonder if anyone on the list has tried to do two things with one airport 
express. If you've ever set one up, you know that there is a point in the 
simple set up where it asks you what you want to do, i.e. extend an existing 
network, use it with Itunes/air tunes etc. I forget exactly how the choices are 
worded. I have a couple of these units connected to stereo receivers for 
streaming media from my Mac. I'd really like to use one of them to extend the 
range of the network and still stream music to a stereo. Can that be done? I'm 
thinking of getting an airport extreme router to replace an aging linksis that 
still works but does not support newer protocols. But even if I don't do that, 
I'd really like to have one of these 2 airport expresses do double duty. thanks 
for relating your experiences in this area, if any.

Mary

Mary Otten
motte...@gmail.com


-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"MacVisionaries" group.
To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.