Re(6): [X4U] Airport Extreme Software Request

[Thomas Bulat]

>Are you sure? I have no experience with Airport-brand wireless gear,  
>but I'm somewhat surprised to hear that two devices might share a MAC  
>address.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_address
>
>Range extending using Airport base-stations is achieved by the  
>standard Wireless Distribution System. When configuring a WDS network  
>all base-stations must share the same WEP key. I think that  
>optionally they may share the same wireless network name (SSID - eg:  
>"Linksys" or "My Wireless Network"). Perhaps you could be confusing  
>these?
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System

Hi Stroller,
What can I say except that I was just as surprised.

Yes...WDS is what I set up with 2 Airport Extreme base stations.
One station is main, and the other is remote, and they share
the same WEP Key, and wireless network name, and internet connection dished
out by my router which is doing the NAT from cable modem.

Originally, I could not find an explanation of the way to configure
this in the Apple Help files. Being logical (?), I originally gave them
different network addresses manually. That lead to 3 hours of fiddling,
followed by a good nights sleep, followed by a new approach. I picked an
address within range and gave it to both of them (because they are sharing
the same internet connection it seemed worth trying) and it worked.

Explaining why this should work is not something I can do.

Maybe someone can. If I did it incorrectly, and should change it,
maybe someone can explain how to do it. Hardware details are noted above.

Everything is working just fine as far as I can tell.

So long for now, TOM