Hi James, Just set up the Airport Express in Bridge mode and it won't be a problem.
Keep in mind that if you buy an Airport Express at a store, just get somebody to tell you the serial number so you can write it down or record it in a voice memo. Then just call A[pple Tech support and they will walk you through the setup that applies to your specific situation. When I bought my Airport Express, I actually have 2, I explained what I was trying to do and they walked me through everything. My main router is not a WiFi router so I use one Airport Express which is physically connected to create my WiFi network, my second Airport Express is connected to my Sonos player in the kitchen to Airplay enable my entire Sonos system. You only need one Airport Express since you already have a WiFi capable router and there is no need to connect it to your router with a cable. You can just join your existing WiFi and, as I said, put it into Bridge mode which means it acts sort of as an extender to your WiFi and you can also enable Airplay on the Airport Express and then if you have a stereo or whatever you want to plug it into, just put it close to your receiver, use a 3.5mm mal to RCA mal cable and connect it to an input in your receiver. Then you can switch to that input and listen to whatever you Airplay from your iPhone. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Mannion Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:13 PM To: viphone Subject: Airport express or extreme as a wireless and airplay solution? Hi, I have some questions about how to configure if I would like to set up the option os using either and Apple Airport Express ore Airport Extreme for my wireless networking including the ability to do air play. I have an understanding at a pretty high level of the concepts involved, I know how to set up and configure my own DSL router and I understand what most of the networking concepts mean and what they do. I was wondering if there is someone on this list that would be willing to contact me and help me to understand exactly how I would need to configure things. Here would be my delemma. My DSL router, which I currently use for wired and wireless has NAT (network address translation) of course. The issue would be how to avoid double NAT. I think in one option where I just add the airport to the nework plugged into one of the wired ports on the router directly, it would just be joining it to the current wireless network and give it an address from the DSL router and would be capable of being an air play device on the network. My guess is in that configuration that I would in some way have to disable most of the wifi stuff on the airport? I am not quite sure what that configuration would look like. I should say I don't have the airport just yet. I could go out and buy one if this would work. In the other configuration which I would like to have the option of doing, I would use the airport to handel my wireless networking and of course it would need the DSL router to be able to access my ISP and actually give me internet. My DSL router has the option of turning off NAT, but says not to do it because I guess the entire router configuration would be accessible from just the public IP address. It has a password on it, but still... Probably not a good idea, right? How else would one avoid double NAT though? How do people do this if they want to? I'm pretty sure the airport is not capable of being a DSL router in itself. Thanks to anyone willing to help me out in understanding this. Jim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
