Extending range with airport express/basestation

[mindsweeper]

Hello, I have a network which shares the resources of my iMac with other computers around my home. This is done through the Mac's airport 802.11b card. As you may know, its range is limited and I wish to extend it. I have an airport express and bastestation unit but I don't know how to configure them to extend the range of my network.

Many thanks.

 

[CSEscotland]

Mindsweeper

you need to use the Airport Admin Utility. applications/utilities.
Go to the WDs tab and enable this base station as a wds. The way I understand it the first link is the main base station and a remote base station is the end link. A relay can sit in the chain if need be. Tick allow wireless clients on this base station to allow the iMac to join.

Let me know if this works for you as i tried to link an XP pro laptop into the ethernet port on my airport express ( air-tunes ) and bridge it to my airport extreme base station. I could not get the XP pro laptop to pick up an IP address from my router/dhcp server and even assigning one didn't work. In the end I blamed Bill Gates and plugged the XP laptop into the wired bit of the network and use my Powerbook in the comfort of the lounge.

Jamie