I bought an Airport Express hoping it could do a little magic for me. However, I'm having troubles. I want to extend my wifi network, to bolster wifi in the guest bedrooms for the upcoming family holiday visit. Since I have household ethernet, I want to extend the wifi via ethernet. That is, I want to create the setup shown in the apple support page linked below, titled "Connecting to an existing Wi-Fi network as part of a roaming network". Except there will be a router between the Airport Express and the Airport Extreme.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202192
I bought the Express based it this hack that worked with the previous gen. I can't get it to work with my gen 3 AE.
http://manski.net/2013/05/extending-wi-fi-networks-with-airport-express/
I confirmed that my AE is working: I did a hard reset of the device, and configuring it per the Apple Support article, plugged directly into the Extreme. That was Apple-easy: The Airport Utility popped up and configured it straight off. No problem.
Before I start searching the web's more deeply and posting to Apple and Mac Rumors, I hoped someone at HTF might know offhand how to do this...or know that it's not possible.
Thanks!
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202192
I bought the Express based it this hack that worked with the previous gen. I can't get it to work with my gen 3 AE.
http://manski.net/2013/05/extending-wi-fi-networks-with-airport-express/
I confirmed that my AE is working: I did a hard reset of the device, and configuring it per the Apple Support article, plugged directly into the Extreme. That was Apple-easy: The Airport Utility popped up and configured it straight off. No problem.
Before I start searching the web's more deeply and posting to Apple and Mac Rumors, I hoped someone at HTF might know offhand how to do this...or know that it's not possible.
Thanks!