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yammy
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Hi All,
I have got an Addonics NAS 3.0 adapter to convert my external hard drive into a NAS, I have the issue that my router is not near my ATV2 and if I connect the NAS to the ATV2 I loose internet. I got a switch and my Airport Extreme to resolve this issue, my issue is that the Airport Extreme doesn't want to operate as a wireless bridge. Can anyone give me some guidance as to what I need to do to get this little setup operational.
Thanks in advance....
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yammy
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Hi,
Thanks for the feedback, yes you are correct that the airport only has one LAN & one WAN. So to confirm if I get a wireless router with multiple ports I can do away with the switch, will this still allow me to get the internet for the ATV2 as well as streaming my media from the NAS?
Cheers....
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Hi,
I have the old round airport extreme which only has one LAN port & one WAN port hence the need for a switch. The reason for needing to use a bridge is that the wireless connection is not fast enough to stream my stored media to the ATV2 (it constantly buffers). I was going to attach the NAS to the ATV2 via ethernet to solve the buffering issue, the issue with this is that the ATV2 won't connect to the net via wireless if an ethernet cable is plugged in.
If you have any ideas now that you have a fuller picture of my situation that would be appreciated, just to let you know that I am currently looking at getting a Netgear Wireless-N WiFi Repeater Range Extender Bridge hoping this will solve my problems.
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Buy a new router. $30 will get you wireless N and multiple wired ethernet ports. A wifi repeater won't help you. If you have an old round style Airport Base station then you have a B or G wifi connection, and those aren't fast enough for the ATV2.
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2011-10-11, 04:09
(This post was last modified: 2011-10-11, 04:11 by yammy.)
Hi Ned,
The reason I am after the wireless bridge is that my modem/wireless router (802.11n) is not able to connect via ethernet to the ATV2 and I need this as the media stream from my NAS constantly buffers using XBMC my proposed setup is below.
Boblite modem/wireless router (802.11n) to wirelessly connect to Netgear WN2000RPT (802.11n), NAS & ATV2 to connect to Netgear WN2000RPT via ethernet cables.
Correct me if I am wrong but shouldn't this allow me to access the NAS for XBMC and access the net as well?
Cheers
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yammy
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Hi,
System update I have successfully connected the ATV2 to the WN2000RPT repeater via ethernet and have successfully set the WN2000RPT as a wireless bridge. I have also connected the NAS to the WN2000RPT via ethernet and am able to access the share which shows my computer, my router and my NAS. The issue is however that when I try and access the NAS XBMC takes ages and then shows a "timed out" message, hoping for some further guidance.
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Hi All,
Thanks for all of your input I have finally got everything working and no longer have any buffering issues, the setup I ended up using is listed below if anyone else has the issue of not being able to connect directly to you Modem/Router via ethernet this set up works great.
Finished Setup
Wireless Modem/Router broadcasts internet via 802.11n to WN2000RPT (Repeater/Bridge), NAS and ATV2 connected to WN2000RPT via its inbuilt ethernet switch, internet and NAS media supplied to ATV2 via ethernet from WN2000RPT.
Thanks again for all the help...
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sorry, i am late to the party... i think the airport nomenclature is confusing things. can we just refer to them as routers ?
at my home i have a blu-ray player which doesnt support wifi. so i connected my acer revo pc (xbmc-box) to the blu-ray player via ethernet and connected the pc via wifi to my netgear router upstairs. now the blu-ray player can access netflix/ pandora and the xbmc-box can access my tv shows/movies from my fedora server upstairs which is connected to the same router thru ethernet.
hopefully this illustrates a method that the op can adapt for their needs.