Help With Mating The Apple Airport Extreme To My X-32....

Lance Richens

Lance Richens

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Just got the latest airport extreme. This will not be connected to the internet, it will only be used between my Ipad mini & my x-32. Right now I'm having trouble connecting using the settings from my prior Linksys router. Any help will be appreciated.....
 
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I use an airport extreme with one of my X32 setups. If the router is configured to get it's internet connection from a dhcp server, it will not be happy until it get's an internet connection, mine is configured that way, so I hookup another router to it to supply it the dhcp server address it seems to require to make it happy, if I don't, then it's own dhcp server won't give out addresses to clients connecting to it. So that's one option...

The way that might work best for you might be to set the internet connection to a fixed IP address, I'm not sure that would work though, I seem to remember having difficulty with that problem and mine as well. Seemed to me that others routers I've used (non airport extreme) didn't fuss nearly as much about it. I've used a dual band belkin ac900 without any issues like that...

I found it handy to have the two routers setup that way so that I could use the first one as a 2.4ghz and the also use the airport extreme as a A 5Ghz router.

I've also had some good luck with a "mesh network" of an old cisco wrt54g hooked to an engenious dual band eap600. The eap 600 is a dual band that allows you to configure the 2.4ghz side independently from the 5ghz side. As an example, I configured the 2.4ghz side to act as a wds link to connect to another eap600, and used the 5ghz side of both routers to run as a wds access point (setting the routers as the same ssid network name and channel) - now they function as one seemless WiFi network that is not connected with any wires.

I'd be happy to share more info if anyone is interested.


Lance Richens said:
Just got the latest airport extreme. This will not be connected to the internet, it will only be used between my Ipad mini & my x-32. Right now I'm having trouble connecting using the settings from my prior Linksys router. Any help will be appreciated.....
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Declan Slater said:
I use an airport extreme with one of my X32 setups. If the router is configured to get it's internet connection from a dhcp server, it will not be happy until it get's an internet connection, mine is configured that way, so I hookup another router to it to supply it the dhcp server address it seems to require to make it happy, if I don't, then it's own dhcp server won't give out addresses to clients connecting to it. So that's one option...

The way that might work best for you might be to set the internet connection to a fixed IP address, I'm not sure that would work though, I seem to remember having difficulty with that problem and mine as well. Seemed to me that others routers I've used (non airport extreme) didn't fuss nearly as much about it. I've used a dual band belkin ac900 without any issues like that...
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So, in all seriousness:

1. Throw away the junk

2. Buy something that actually works

3. Set subnet mask of the router (and the DHCP server, of course) to be the same as the X32 (typically 255.255.255.0)

4. Set DHCP server to give out addresses on the same subnet as the X32, but outside X32 static IP range (not sure what X32 defaults to, just make sure the first 3 numbers of the IP address are the same, and that the variable last number is NOT going to include the X32's in the range)

5. Sit back and enjoy it working great

I'm not going to start an Apple debate. Apple products work great until they don't work, then you're pretty much stuck. And they seem to work most of the time, which is why they're so popular - they don't require any effort. Problem is, things like what the OP wants to do is relatively non-standard, and the Apple product doesn't not work well with anything "non-standard", but this is by design.
 
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I use an airport express (1.gen)in my portable measurement rig, it works just fine as long as you put it into bridge mode and set om the network manually.

I do not trust it for mission-critical applications.
 
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Thanks for the responses. Busy days are these, just getting back to this. First the basics. Getting the ipad to even find the x32. What should I set the IP, subnet, etc to?
 
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I have the subnet set at 255.255.255.0 The IP on the ipad is10.0.1.2 so I have set the board ip at this. What should the x-32 gateway be set at?
 
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IP addresses should be unique.
You can't have your board and iPad share the same address.
Keep the iPad at 10.0.1.2 and change the desk to 10.0.1.3 (assuming nothing else on your network uses that address).
Make sure the subnet mask on the desk is also 255.255.255.0
The Gateway should be the IP address of your Airport Extreme, which is likely to be 10.0.1.0 (double check this and use whatever value the device is set to).

Assuming that the subnet mask is the same for all the devices, your network addresses should all begin 10.0.1.
Every device connected to that network will then need a unique address for the last number.

Try that and see what happens.

Karl.
 
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Silas Pradetto said:
So, in all seriousness:

1. Throw away the junk

2. Buy something that actually works

3. Set subnet mask of the router (and the DHCP server, of course) to be the same as the X32 (typically 255.255.255.0)

4. Set DHCP server to give out addresses on the same subnet as the X32, but outside X32 static IP range (not sure what X32 defaults to, just make sure the first 3 numbers of the IP address are the same, and that the variable last number is NOT going to include the X32's in the range)

5. Sit back and enjoy it working great

I'm not going to start an Apple debate. Apple products work great until they don't work, then you're pretty much stuck. And they seem to work most of the time, which is why they're so popular - they don't require any effort. Problem is, things like what the OP wants to do is relatively non-standard, and the Apple product doesn't not work well with anything "non-standard", but this is by design.
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+1 ... AWESOME advise Silas... What a PRO!

Your whole "I don't know how to answer your questions, so instead I'll call your gear junk, bash the company that made it, suggest you throw it in the trash, and buy something different" answer is just freaking brilliant. Inspiring stuff man... really, you should be mentoring kids or something, passing this wealth of knowledge on to the next generation.

:roll:
 
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Silas Pradetto said:
I'm not going to start an Apple debate. Apple products work great until they don't work, then you're pretty much stuck. And they seem to work most of the time, which is why they're so popular - they don't require any effort. Problem is, things like what the OP wants to do is relatively non-standard, and the Apple product doesn't not work well with anything "non-standard", but this is by design.
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Those of us with quite a bit of in-depth experience with these things know you are wrong.
 
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