Hi Peter, I am actually trying to use the AE as an ethernet bridge for my mother’s new Panasonic DVD Recorder. She has expressed an interest in using the recorder to also watch ABC iView. The Recorder has an ethernet port but no WiFi. The AE I am using is one that my step daughter no longer requires; not the latest but the small flat square box with power cable.
I have managed to set it up so that it is now using her WiFi. The problem now is that when I take it from her study and power up in her lounge (only one wall between), it no longer picks up her WiFi network. However my iPhone picks up her network anywhere in her home. Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions. Yesterday I left it plugged in and connected to her Recorder for now with instructions to let me know if the orange light stops flashing and turns green. But no phone call yet. Any suggestions would be most welcome ? On 26 Mar 2014, at 7:26 am, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 Mar 2014, at 3:50 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks .. any ideas here would be most welcome please ? >> >> I took the proven AE setup to my elderly mother’s place and set it up fine >> on her WiFi network. >> Problem now is that when I then take it from her office (where I set it up >> and it works) to her lounge (the next room) I plug it in and simply get an >> endless flashing orange light. Seems it can’t pick up the WiFi only one room >> away from the wireless modem. >> >> Is there something I might be missing here or does the AE usually have such >> a short range ? >> The modem is a very old blue and silver D-Link with an antenna on one side >> (perhaps that is the culprit). >> Strange thing is that m iPhone picks up her WiFi anywhere in her home. > > The AE will only extend the WiFi from another Apple device, eg another AE, > Airport Extreme or Time Capsule. It can only extend the network of the D-Link > as an ethernet bridge, not wireless. > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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