[X-Newbies] Taking Airport Express to different locations?

[Scott]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Thomas McDermott Jr wrote:

> Good evening,
>    I am using my airport express at home to extend my airport extreme
> signal.  Was wondering if its possible to take my AE to a different
> location for a day and then bring it home without having to  
> reconfigure
> it again for my home network?  My wireless access point at work is  
> dead
> and need something for a couple of days until it gets
> replaced..figured..and hoping that the AE is the way to go in the  
> short
> term.

You can only do a plug-in-without-config if your network at work uses  
the same connection as your airport's upstream connection at home. If  
you have cable or dsl which uses DHCP at home, and your work network  
also uses DHCP, and also does not restrict access based on HW address  
or other factors, it should work. If you use PPPoE to connect to your  
ISP at home, you'll need to reconfigure your airport base station for  
it to work at work.

Note also that many workplaces frown on adding your own access point  
to their network. Quite plainly, it is a security risk. It can also  
be a termination offense. For that reason alone, this is usually not  
the way to go, even short term.

-- 
Scott Buntin