Thanks. I'll give it some thought...
----------------------------------------------- www.manorparksurgery.com www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com 2008/12/29 Edmund Craske <[email protected]> > > Hi Russell, > In this situation, you would need to change things around slightly - you > currently have no spare LAN ethernet ports to plug a second access point > into! If you bought a wireless broadband router with multiple LAN ports > (e.g. Linksys WRT54G), you could substitute the Airport Express for that, > and then reconfigure the Airport Express to act as just an access point and > connect it to one of the LAN ports on the broadband router. Then you would > have two wifi networks configurable independently. > > Hope this helps, > Ed > > Russell Brown wrote: > > Thanks. > > > > A few more details would be appreciated. > > > > How would I do that with my current set-up? I have the standard Virgin > > cable modem attached by ethernet cable to an Airport Express. Is there > > some way to daisy chain the routers? > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > www.manorparksurgery.com <http://www.manorparksurgery.com> > > www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com <http://www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com> > > > > > > 2008/12/27 tcrooks <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > > > Not perhaps the answer you'd prefer - we had a similar problem > > involving a DS which I solved by adding a second generic wifi router > > connected to my modem for WEP only. I think it was less than £20 from > > dabs.com <http://dabs.com>, does the job and avoids complications. > > > > On 26 Dec, 21:08, "Russell Brown" <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Sad perhaps, but I got a Nintendo DS lite for Christmas. > > > > > > I'd like to connect it to my existing wifi network, which is set up > > > via an express base station connected to my cable modem. > > > > > > I've got it set up with WPA security, which is fine with our macs, > our > > > phones and my wii. > > > > > > But not the DS, oh no, they only work with WEP. > > > > > > I'm not particularly inclined to reset everything to WEP, but I > > > remember reading somewhere (and some time ago) that some routers > allow > > > different security settings for different devices with specific MAC > > > addresses. > > > > > > Any idea if I can use Airport Utility to do something similar, as > its > > > relatively easy to find the DS MAS address? > > > > > > Thanks and Merry Christmas. > > > > > > Russell > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > www.manorparksurgery.comwww.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com > > <http://www.manorparksurgery.comwww.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
