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Question

Airport

Apr 24, 2012 8:39AM PDT

I have a LAN with five mac's using an Airport Extreme. I would like wireless conectivity in the basement. but the signal can"t get there. I do have an ethernet cable connection to the basement from the airport. Can I connect an airport express in the basement to the ethernet cable to enable wireless connectivity in the basement? If not, do you have a suggestion as to how I can do this. Thank you. N Jacobs

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I never did that.
Apr 24, 2012 8:46AM PDT

I have always used a basic off the shelf "Router as a WAP" (see google) to do this trick.

I'm sure an Apple Airport can do this trick too. Google "Apple Airport as a WAP" to see if anyone documented or discussed that.
Bob

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Yes you can, the Airport Express
Apr 24, 2012 12:07PM PDT

was designed to do just that.

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