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How to make longer wireless range of Time Capsule with Airport Express for 4 storey building ?

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Posted 11 March 2009 - 06:56 PM

hello,

My boss ask me to make longer the wireless connection of internet for our 4 storey office apartment.

So I buy a Time Capsule (500GB) and 2 Airport Express.

The Time Capsule is on the 4th floor (connected to modem by wire) and 1 Airport Express on 3rd floor and 1 more on the 2nd floor.

Can you teach me how to set up the software so our PC desktop and laptop and Mac books can connect ?

Thank you very much.

Edna
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 03:58 AM

You need to either setup the Airport Expresses as repeaters (this will slow down bandwidth considerably) or use them to extend an existing network. Its fairly easy to set up the latter option. Configure the Time Capsule as you normally would.

Plug in the airport express directly into your computer via ethernet, configure that one manually and select extend an existing network within the airport utility. Place that where you feel it will best extend the range. Duplicate the steps for the second AE.

The supplied Time Capsule/AE Base Station documents are pretty good at detailing the exact steps, also apple has some decent KB articles on the subject as well.
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