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Apple airport express setup android12/21/2023 ![]() ![]() If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours including screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. Read our super FAQ to see if your question is covered. We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Kenneth. It’s not quite AirPort Utility, but it’s among the least-frustrating setups I’ve had for non-mesh and non-Apple gear. Tether lets me connect to the router out of the box, configure it to be part of my set of managed networks, and then choose the simple options, like network name and access point mode, with a few taps. At right, top: enabling Smart Connect to assist in mobile roaming bottom, a configured device. At left, top: A list of local devices bottom, setting access point mode. ![]() TP-Link’s Tether app offers simplicity in configuring a set of standard Wi-Fi gateways. The first still required an ugly and complicated Web administrative interface to configure. I’ve gradually switched from Apple to TP-Link for the three Wi-Fi routers on my network. ![]() In that case, configure your main base station as a bridge/access point, too.įor a configuration like this, some manufacturers have finally got the religion of simplicity. The only exception is if the broadband router handles network assignment with DHCP and NAT. Use the same network password for all Wi-Fi networks, too. (Name the base stations themselves uniquely in whatever way the device lets you to identify them for configuration.) This name, the SSID (Service Set Identifier), is what you see in a list of Wi-Fi networks in a menu. Name each additional router’s network the same. Instead, they pass through the NAT/DHCP combo from the main router. You want these routers to neither create a private network nor pass out addresses. The terminology varies by Wi-Fi device maker. You can also insert ethernet switches for convenience or to span greater distances between the main router and additional ones.Ĭonfigure each additional router as a bridge or access point. (This the combination known as NAT and DHCP: NAT manages the private network range DHCP hands out addresses.)Ĭonnect each additional router via ethernet to the LAN ports on the main router. The main network takes the Internet Protocol (IP) address handed off by the broadband modem and creates a private network range and passes out addresses to Wi-Fi- and ethernet-connected devices. It connects via its WAN (Wide Area Networking) port to your broadband modem. One of your Wi-Fi gateways needs to act as the “main” unit. Apple made it easy to set up a series of base stations that could have unique individual names (to identify them for configuration), but could be set to share the same network name to allow devices to roam. Any device that has a Wi-Fi adapter that lets it connect to a network-whether an iPad, laptop, Nintendo Switch, Android phone, or smart fridge-automatically roams among base stations that share the same network name and encryption setup, including password. Readers ask for what was a breeze with AirPort configurations: a single network that allows devices to roam seamlessly without awkward handoffs between base stations. Mesh may sound great, but why not use the wiring we have? Such readers are in the same situation I am in: we have some ethernet wiring or have strung some ethernet cables in the house to connect base stations and just want to swap out what we have for the latest. I increasingly get email from readers who have failing or kaput AirPort base station equipment and want to set up a network with the same simplicity, but at a lower cost than mesh options. ![]()
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