Sam, again your knowledge is boundless. Would you mind terribly if you have the time telling that to me again but imagine you are instructing a 5 year old ... Please?
Jonathan Brady Tel: +447931541489 On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:15, Sam - MacAmbulance <i...@macambulance.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Jonathan > > With airport express these days, you don't extend the network, you set them > to create the exact same network, name, password and channel. Apple call it a > roaming network. > > The sky box won't support any wds wifi distribution with the airport express, > so you just create an identical network and make sure the Ethernet cable is > connected. > > The older airport should be set to join the network instead of creating one > as its not connected via Ethernet. It'll then provide airplay services but no > wifi extension > > Regards > > Sam > > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > i...@macambulance.co.uk > > On 28 Aug 2013, at 23:56, Jonathan Brady <laddymcb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> Apologies for the usual long preamble but it may prove necessary in this >> case. >> >> Until this very morning, I was using O2 broadband as I got a discount in >> conjunction with them being my iPhone carrier. The O2 broadband provided >> Thomson wireless router was set up as the main router providing the internet >> to my iMac and allowing me to connect a wireless Canon printer to the >> network. Additionally I had two Airport Expresses, one is the newer version >> supporting up to 802.11N and connecting to the mains socket via a cable and >> the other a slightly older version which plugs directly into the wall socket >> as in the product's original design. I used to be able to use both express >> units to extend the WiFi network in the house and also had the newer one >> connected to my stereo so that I could stream the contents of my iTunes >> library to it using AirTunes. The Airport Express units were both always >> visible in the Airport utility and their firmware versions were up to date. >> As a result of Telefonica selling the O2 Broadband service to Sky, I decided >> to take up Sky's offer for broadband, tv, and telephone to former O2 >> customers. Cue a Sky telephone engineer arriving this morning to do the >> necessary installation to switch us to their fibre-optic broadband. This >> works brilliantly and blows away the 3Mb service that we used to average >> with O2 and whose lack of speed was a reason for using the Airport Expresses >> to extend the network. It now runs at ten times the speed. >> >> However, try as I might, and I have undertaken hard resets on the Airport >> Express to this effect, I cannot get Airport Utility to see the Airport >> Express units anymore insofar as giving me an option to use them to extend >> the network now that the Sky hub is providing the network. They are >> definitely in range and Airport Utility gives me the option to switch to one >> of them as an alternative network to the new Sky one. However, that is not >> what I want to do. At least I don't think so. Does anyone have any >> experience of using Airport Express base stations with Sky hubs? On the Sky >> users forums there are conflicting accounts of people succeeding and failing >> to connect the Airport Express units. Currently I am certainly in the >> failing category. The extending of the WiFi network is not an issue >> anymore, rather I would like to get Airtunes to work again with my stereo >> (the iMac and stereo are on opposite sides of the house). I still have the >> Thomson router provided by O2 so I suppose I could swap the Sky one for the >> Thomson one? Ideally I'd like to keep using the Sky hub as it seems to be >> pumping out a pretty good signal. I understand there's the possibility of >> replacing the Sky hub with the newer Airport Express but I need a Wireless >> Access Point to enable the printer to work on the network. I also still >> have two powerline adapters. >> >> Apologies again for the length of the message but if anyone is kind enough >> to respond to it I figured it would make sense to divulge as much >> information as possible. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Jonathan Brady >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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