[Cube] connect cube to airport express?

[Erik Ableson]

A bridge will get you the maximum performance of the connection -  
ethernet = 100Mb, 11g = 54Mb so I'll be getting the most I can out of  
the available bandwidth.  And yes, if you run the Express in client  
mode, it's not going to let you do this, but in WDS mode it works  
flawlessly (as per the technote).

My network current consists of two Airport Express modules so this  
works fine.  I've tested it with computers hooked up via ethernet to  
the second Express (the one that's not hooked up to the DSL modem)  
and it has no problems getting a DHCP assigned address from the  
router.  That said, I haven't tried to bridge a _network_ on the  
other end (ie, hook up a hub or switch and plug in more than one  
machine), but with a machine connected directly to the  Express it  
works just fine.

And the amusing side node here is that I have an XP box that I tested  
using this method and it worked.  But since I was going to move the  
XP machine to another room, I bought an internet 11g card for it, but  
the @#% thing drops the connection on a random basis, and refuses to  
auto reconnect, so it's useless for offering services to the network  
since half the time it's not available.  OTOH, my cube runs OS X  
Server and happily plugs away over the Airport connection 7/24 for  
months on end...

Cheers,

Erik
Le 20 juil. 05 à 06:26, atoa a écrit :

> Say what? Using a bridge of any kind isn't going to give you 11g  
> performance out of a Cube, unless you have somehow hacked it up to  
> use an 11g NIC.
>
> And if you have been able to use the Express to bridge a wireless  
> to wired net, I'd surely like to know how. Everything I've read  
> (and tried) says it can't be done. For example:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108040
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