On 24/12/09, steve harley, discombobulated, unleashed: >David said it's an Airport _Express_, though -- so there's only one >ethernet jack, which i assumed that would have to be connected to the >DSL router
Airport Express has one ethernet port and one USB port. Just a note to Dave - beware about PC's connecting up wirelessly to Airport networks, here could be a bit of tweaking to do. We have one older Mac laptop (a Powerbook from 1999) that my wife uses. We had one main Airport Extreme base station with a couple of Airport Express units used as repeater stations to extend the network (we have 2 foot thick stone walls in the cottage) for kitchen (speakers) and upstairs. The Powerbook refuses to see the Express units when it knows there's an Extreme base station downstairs in the sitting room, *if* the security encryption on the base station is on. If the encryption is off (and therefore running an open unsecured system) then it is fine, the Powerbook locks onto the Express repeater units, but that's poo. I trouble-shot this for weeks and the only solution short of dumping the Powerbook was to buy *another* Extreme base station and put that upstairs. Then run encryption security as normal, and the old Powerbook sees the second Extreme base station unit okay. All other (newer) machines are unaffected. So that's one main Airport Extreme base station connected to a wired router (with a USB printer available to all). One secondary Extreme base station upstairs in my son's bedroom as a repeater (and wired connection to an Xbox 360). One Express repeater in the kitchen (remote speakers) and one Express unit (ex-upstairs) now idle waiting for the garden summer house to get finished. The neat things about Apple is that it does work eventually, if you simply throw tons of money at it for lots of shiny white plastic. <http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary> -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
