Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 23, 12:28 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Both are set at WPA2 Personal.  Both access Internet in separate Bridge mode via a Verizon router which has Coax connection to Verizon's FiOS fiber/coax conversion box

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 23, 12:34 pm, Ryan Waldon ryanwaldon2...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: Can I run two wireless local networks or should I merge all functions into one WiFi 802.11g/n net? I run two WLANs at my house with a similar

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Al Poulin wrote: On Jun 23, 12:28 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Both are set at WPA2 Personal. Both access Internet in separate Bridge mode via a Verizon router which has Coax connection

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread John Musbach
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Al Poulinalfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: Can I run two wireless local networks or should I merge all functions into one WiFi 802.11g/n net? Buy a airport base station, it does what you want to do in one simple unit. See:

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 23, 2:00 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Well you don't need to use the Wifi, if the airports are connected via   ethernet? How do the Airport's connect to the Verizon router? Ideally your wifi network should look like this: ---Internet---[verizon

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Al Poulin wrote: ---Internet---[verizon router](wired connection)===[Airports] ))) [clients] That is the setup, via Ethernet. But my question revolves around being able to let iTunes sync seamlessly between machines of one network (802.11n) with

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 23, 3:39 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: iTunes and iPod don't care at all what transport underlies the TCP/IP   network. Your 'network' in this instance is everything connected back   to the Verizon router...your Airport devices are acting as wireless  

Re: Two WLANs or One?

2009-06-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 23, 7:02 pm, Ryan Waldon ryanwaldon2...@gmail.com wrote: Yes they are. The Macs and the Linux box can all see each, and interact. My wife's Vista rig is a different story... Thanks, Ryan. Perhaps your 802.11g network is also set to work in the 802.11b standard, or do you have some