Unfortunately, the answer is, “I’m sorry Andrew, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
The problem is that the AirPort Express supports the STA (station) proxy mode, wherein each Ethernet and Wi-Fi device connected to the extension is proxied to your existing network as a Wi-Fi station itself. This is how most “repeater” products still work. It’s particularly awesome when you’ve got an Ethernet-only device and want it talking to your wireless network. The Time Capsule and Extreme never had this functionality. Instead, you use WDS (Wireless Distribution System) if you want a wireless backbone. That requires support from both sides of the bridge, but worse, it impairs performance for anybody connected to the extender, by exactly half for every traversal through a bridge. If you can get your Netgear to use WDS, that’s the way. Otherwise you’ll have to use an Ethernet backbone or purchase a different extender. Sorry about that. Ethernet is always preferable, of course, but it’s not always practical. The way that you get to the setup mode of the Extreme is to reset it. When you join the network either on macOS or in iOS, you’ll get a special AirPort-specific setup regime. I will miss my AirPort product when it finally dies. But I think I’ll be moving to Netgear’s Nighthawk for a simple base station arrangement in the traditional style. The Time Capsule is rendered obsolete as soon as the internal hard disk dies, and that’s already happened to me once. Time to move on, I fancy, and remember the good times. Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A48B961E-031D-445C-B531-2490C2329390%40me.com.
