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Post by sirpeter on Sept 18, 2011 21:23:18 GMT
Hi Will and Everyone at BM
I am trying to set up a bit of a thingy around the house, and I have got myself into a bit of a muddle. I only have a MacBook for my computer, and it is normally set up in an office space. I connect to the internet via a wifi, as I have a Netgear Wifi Modem, and all this works well. My iTunes library is in an external drive that I plug in, but recently I have being taking my MacBook to work and other places, and have had to eject the Hard Drive every time I want to move it MacBook. So I decided to buy a second hand Airport Extreme so that I could plug the hard drive in and access it wirelessly when at home. That was my intention, but I can not set it up.
I don't know what I am doing? I don't know if I am setting up a new network or joining a new one? The green light on the Airport Extreme has changed to a blinking orange one? I can see my old Wifi name in the available networks, but I can not use it, it used to have lock next to it, but now it is free? Should I connect the Netgear Modem and the Airport Extreme with a cable or will they talk over wifi? Should I turn the wifi part of the netgear modem off, and just connect via the Airport Extreme? or should it be the other way? I have lots of questions, but I think I have changed my settings so much that I am not sure where I am?
I think I need help.
Sir Pete
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Post by millstonebarn on May 15, 2012 18:05:46 GMT
Sorry no-one has responded Sir Pete. Have you had any success?
What you're wanting to do sounds eminently possible. If it were me I'd probably start off by not using the wifi element of the extreme and wire it up directly to the netgear using a piece of cat5 cable.
I think it should be possible to "join an existing network" that way. Sometimes when you have two wifi devices, if they're not set up to talk to each other properly (and in particular the default gateway and dns settings for the device that accesses the Internet) then you can get some issues when your laptop connects to the non-Internet connected wifi.
I too got rather mixed up when helping someone with their extreme (well, time capsule actually) so in the end had to reset to the default settings and start again until we got it all working as we wanted.
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