question about wireless

[DiveSolana]

ey peeps, i just wanted to ask if this set up would work. right now i have an apple express, here at home usually 2pb's and 1laptop share one dsl connection, since my room is on the third floor i am the farthest from the a.p.e so the signal that i get is only 1 or 2 bars and sometimes napuputol pa :sigh: so if i buy one of these will it act as a repeater for the signal thats sent out by the a.p.e para i cant get better reception here in my room. thanks im just new to this whole wireless thing so i wouldnt know if this would work.

[lamski]

Why don't you just buy another airport express? Set it up as a remote base station and you're good to go.

[Lakisalayaw1970]

Lamski sounds like he has the easiest solution. Perhaps the DSL connection should be in the middle. I think these wireless routers have omnidirectional antennas. So I would try to position the wireless router in the staircase just so the signal can bounce
around easier.

If it still doesn't work maybe you can just get an ethernet cable for the
computer that doesn't move around all the time. Have 2 out of three wireless for now and have one on the network cable while you look for a solution.

[Lakisalayaw1970]

Try this link-
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/10/12/airport_express.html

Or do a Google search like this:
"extending wireless network Mac OS X"
"extending wireless network"

This product you posted looks like a cable router maybe not for DSL. It doesn't look like it has a wireless feature either (where's the antenna?).

I use a Linksys WRT54G Wireless router off my DSL modem. I live in a tiny studio so it's overkill to have wireless. I'm not even using my laptop typing this.

[DiveSolana]

i just read the specs again and it seems it isint wireless its only a router sorry guys... but anyways lamski's idea is good its just i was hoping there would be a cheaper alternative to getting another a.p.e which will set me back around 5k.

lakisalayaw- thanks very much for the link dude, great help talaga!!

[rvaph]

My friend asked me this a couple of days ago:

He has a wired network at home. He has a powerbook and wanted to use its wireless capability. The question is, can he connect the Airport Express to his existing wired network by plugging it to one of the ports in his network hub?

[Dave_D]

Yes... out of the box, it will.

Once he's gotten comfortable with it, he can then implement the security like MAC address filter and/or WEP/WPA encryption.

[rvaph]

Thanks Dave D.