Hi there. Bit of a newbie to networking, but I've made some good headway. I could really use your help though. I have a Linksys WRTG54GS hooked to my DSL modem. It's running firmware Version: v4.71.1, Hyperwrt 2.1b1 + Thibor15c. I'm trying to configure my Airport Etreme and Airport Express to work as an extension of that main network, or at least connect to the main network so I can still use the USB printer and AirTunes functions. I am running MAC OSX and Windows XP. I've searched high and low for information on how to do this, but nothing solid has come from it... Does anyone have a tutorial or advice? Anything would be appreciated.
For a person not familiar and always confused with the Airport Extreme and Airport Express models, can you please help clarify which is which? Are Extreme and Express Access Point/router or network adapter? Thanks.
Understandable... And I'm not sure I have the whole answer, but here goes. The Airport Extreme is a base station, access point. The Airport Express is a much smaller unit that functions as a sort of bridge for the AExtreme network. It also works as a USB print server and "Airtunes" source - where you send music wirelessly to the unit from iTunes. The AExtreme also could be a portable wireless router, just plug any DSL modem in to the Ethernet port and it works w/o a main base station designated.
Success!!! My Airport Extreme base station and Airport Express are bridged on to my WRT54GS network using WDS. Set up was fairly easy... What I was missing, though, was that the AE/AEXP had to be wired to the WRT54GS for configuration and the WEP key needed a $ sign in front of it. Once I did these two things, the rest of it all just worked. Took me many hours of research, so I hope this post will help someone else.
