[Cube] connect cube to airport express?

[atoa]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Erik Ableson wrote:

> A bridge will get you the maximum performance of the connection - etherne=
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> 100Mb, 11g =3D 54Mb so I'll be getting the most I can out of the availabl=
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> bandwidth.  And yes, if you run the Express in client mode, it's not goin=
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> let you do this, but in WDS mode it works flawlessly (as per the technote=
).

Ah, but only if the existing wireless net is Airport Extreme or another=20
Express. I've heard rumors that some other WAPs will work, but I've had no=
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luck with my Belkin.

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> My network current consists of two Airport Express modules so this works=
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> fine.  I've tested it with computers hooked up via ethernet to the second=
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> Express (the one that's not hooked up to the DSL modem) and it has no=20
> problems getting a DHCP assigned address from the router.  That said, I=
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> haven't tried to bridge a _network_ on the other end (ie, hook up a hub o=
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> switch and plug in more than one machine), but with a machine connected=
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> directly to the  Express it works just fine.
>
That is precisely what I was hoping to do. I have a room full of older=20
boxes that can't be reached with wire, and for which there is no practical=
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wireless solution. I think I'll just get a bridge, though they never go on=
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sale.

> And the amusing side node here is that I have an XP box that I tested usi=
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> this method and it worked.  But since I was going to move the XP machine =
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> another room, I bought an internet 11g card for it, but the @#% thing dro=
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> the connection on a random basis, and refuses to auto reconnect, so it's=
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> useless for offering services to the network since half the time it's not=
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> available.  OTOH, my cube runs OS X Server and happily plugs away over th=
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> Airport connection 7/24 for months on end...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Erik
> Le 20 juil. 05 =E0 06:26, atoa a =E9crit :
>
>> Say what? Using a bridge of any kind isn't going to give you 11g=20
>> performance out of a Cube, unless you have somehow hacked it up to use a=
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>> 11g NIC.
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>> And if you have been able to use the Express to bridge a wireless to wir=
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>> net, I'd surely like to know how. Everything I've read (and tried) says =
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>> can't be done. For example:
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>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=3D108040