I have used the extreme as the base station and the express as relay and
they work fine. IF your base is set up the express will automatically
join the network, it may ask for advice if you have several networks. John
On 12/28/15 2:46 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
Now when answering your message its a dsl modem with router built-in.
I have that as a nat and use the airport extreme as a bridge.
Maybe i should try to reverse the setting so that my modem is a bridge and my
airport is a nat.
But how will i go with my other airport base stations i have?
I have two airport express.
Do i have to set them up to or will they automatically join the network?
Also thanks for your encouragement to do some testing through all options.
One question though.
I have a macbook which does not use an ethernet port.
If i buy a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor would this in any case decrease the
speed?
Thanks.
/A
28 dec. 2015 kl. 05:37 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com>:
Anything is possible, of course. It may indeed be the case that your
particular router or combination or radio environment is not supporting the
speeds you require.
But before you go blaming a particular piece of equipment, test it. Start from
your broadband connection. Plug your computer into the modem, restart computer
and modem, and run a speed test on the computer.
Then rewire your router, and test that, using Ethernet. Plug your computer
into an Ethernet port of your router, and do a speed test.
And finally use Wi-Fi. You can use an iPhone if you like; just make sure that
your router and device support the latest Wi-Fi standard common to both, i.e.
AC for AirPort Extreme.
At what point does the speed become noticeably worse?
Now you know, and you can start to figure out where the problem is.
What is the nature of your broadband connection. How is it delivered to you.
Are you given a modem, or a router? Some routers, especially cable routers,
start out life as NAT boxes, but can be put into “Modem mode”. You should do
this, and let AirPort handle the NAT.
How about address assignment? Do you use DHCP, or PPPoE? AirPort is not so
great for PPPoE, although it does work. There will be a loss of performance
compared to other gateways, however. DHCP is usually the more common to cable;
PPPoE is for DSL/VDSL/FTTP/FTTC.
The story is rather different with classical DSL, unfortunately. Because of
ancient history and incompetence, fuelled as it was by people whose only object
was the making of money, many DSL routers are sufficiently specific to a
provider as to be irreplaceable. Others cannot help but function as IP routers
rather than as bridging modems. Now you will have to go the other way around:
tell AirPort to bridge, and use your modem as the router. All bets are off as
to the exact performance characteristics you will get, but once again the only
way to know for sure where the blame lies is to test.
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