Milt, Airport Expresses are not going to give you much of a range, they seem to be meant for small areas for broadcasting. When I travel I take an Airport Express with me so I won't have to be subject to the setup (or lack of) that the hotel has with their routers. This summer one of my children and her family went to Florida with us, I set them up with an Airport Express as well, yet even though we were only one room separating us (20 to 25 ft) I could not see my Express on her machine and she couldn't see mine on hers.
Unless there is a tremendous distance and Airport EXTREME would do the trick. I had the old Airport Extreme (flying saucer, white) and they were not able to cover the entire house so I had to use the Expresses to boost the signal, but an Apple Rep. told me that this will really slow things down, what happens is the signal is sent from the Extreme to the boosting Express and then it goes from there to the range it will send the signal. He said that it causes a lot of tossing the packets back and forth and it will cut the speed in half for each booster you have so I imagine using an Express with a booster would indeed be very slow. Once I went with the newer model Extreme I could rid the home of the boosters, I got twice the range and twice (at least advertised) speed. Now there is only one space out next to the garage that I don't have a strong signal so other than that no matter how far away I am from the Extreme I have full bars and great speed. John On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Milt Tyree wrote: > I recently set-up a wireless network in my dad's house using an > Airport Express as the base station. (Insight broadband) Worked fine, > except the signal was very weak, and sometimes non-existent, at the > far end of his house. So, I purchased and set-up another Airport > Express as a bridge to extend the range. It works -- most of the time. > But sometimes, even when the signal indicator show a strong signal > (all black bars), the speed is VERY slow -- almost like dial-up. > > Does anyone have ideas why this may be so, and if so, then what might > be done to have things work all of the time? (I attempted unplugging/ > re-connecting the cable modem and also the bridge Airport Express. > Didn't help.) > > Many thanks! > Milt > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
