Hi Jonathan You won't be able to extend a non-airport network with an airport base station, it has to be two airport routers, at least I've never got it working cross-manufacturer.
You could use a powerline networking kit to bring the ethernet connection up to the airport express, then use the AE to share out the printer. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] On 25 Aug 2012, at 15:43, Jonathan Brady wrote: > Hello. > > I recently bought a second airport express base station for travelling but > since I am currently nowhere exotic I thought I might add it to my current > home network which consists of an O2 wireless router supplied by our dear > friends at Telefonica and an airport express base station downstairs used for > both extending the wireless network signal from the O2 box and > airtunes/airplay (whatever they call it nowadays). I have added the second > airport express base station upstairs quite close to the iMac I use and > diverted the printer's usb cable from the iMac to the new airport express. I > followed the idiot's walkthrough setup that airport utility took me along. > However, I cannot get the printer to work. I know these things are not > always so plug and play as one expects so forgive my apparent naiveté. After > that long preamble, the gist of my query is: can I use the second airport > express base station to both extend the wireless network thereby improving > its overall realiability and at the same time use it so that multiple > machines can print wirelessly from around the house or are the two mutually > exclusive? If it is possible to use it to both extend the network and print > wirelessly, how do I sort the printer bit out? > > Thanks. > > > Jonathan Brady > Photography, Multimedia, Video > tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 > Twitter: @HiredGunJB > LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jmebrady > web: http://www.jonathanbrady.net > email: [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
