Comments on: Using an Airport Express to extend a wireless network using the LAN port http://cdevroe.com/notes/airport-express-lan/ by Colin Devroe Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/notes/airport-express-lan/#comment-386938 Colin Devroe Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:24:47 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=3747#comment-386938 Very cool! Apple doesn't make it very easy-to-do (not sure why) but I love that the Airport Express can be used like that. Very cool! Apple doesn’t make it very easy-to-do (not sure why) but I love that the Airport Express can be used like that.

]]> By: Diana LeRoi-Schmidt http://cdevroe.com/notes/airport-express-lan/#comment-386446 Diana LeRoi-Schmidt Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:54:41 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=3747#comment-386446 Thanks for sharing this. We've been at a loss as to how to get LG Blu-ray player to get wired internet. Living in an apartment we didn't want to get into routing wires through walls. We picked up an Airport Express on Friday and I followed the directions from the Alex King's site and now have a very happy husband who's enjoying Netflix streaming. Thanks for sharing this. We’ve been at a loss as to how to get LG Blu-ray player to get wired internet. Living in an apartment we didn’t want to get into routing wires through walls.

We picked up an Airport Express on Friday and I followed the directions from the Alex King’s site and now have a very happy husband who’s enjoying Netflix streaming.

]]> By: Rodti http://cdevroe.com/notes/airport-express-lan/#comment-384148 Rodti Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:42:43 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=3747#comment-384148 The problem with using an Airport Express in WDS mode is that it effectively halves your bandwidth. I'm assuming here it's an 802.11g Airport Express, it might be different for the 802.11n unit if that supports MIMO. That doesn't effect everyone, but if you were streaming video over your network to other 802.11g devices you've a lot less bandwidth to play with. In my setup I have two Xbox 360s (both with the Microsoft 802.11g dongle) a dual-band Time Capsule and a Mac Mini media server. I had to extend the network using an 802.11g Airport Express and the Xbox at the 'far end' of the network suffers as a result :-( The problem with using an Airport Express in WDS mode is that it effectively halves your bandwidth. I’m assuming here it’s an 802.11g Airport Express, it might be different for the 802.11n unit if that supports MIMO. That doesn’t effect everyone, but if you were streaming video over your network to other 802.11g devices you’ve a lot less bandwidth to play with.

In my setup I have two Xbox 360s (both with the Microsoft 802.11g dongle) a dual-band Time Capsule and a Mac Mini media server. I had to extend the network using an 802.11g Airport Express and the Xbox at the ‘far end’ of the network suffers as a result :-(

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