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<blockquote data-quote="Declan Slater" data-source="post: 84748" data-attributes="member: 964">Re: Help With Mating The Apple Airport Extreme To My X-32....I use an airport extreme with one of my X32 setups.&nbsp; If the router is configured to get it&#039;s internet connection from a dhcp server, it will not be happy until it get&#039;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&#039;t, then it&#039;s own dhcp server won&#039;t give out addresses to clients connecting to it.&nbsp; So that&#039;s one option...The way that might work best for you might be to set the internet connection to a fixed IP address, I&#039;m not sure that would work though, I seem to remember having difficulty with that problem and mine as well.&nbsp; Seemed to me that others routers I&#039;ve used (non airport extreme) didn&#039;t fuss nearly as much about it.&nbsp; I&#039;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&#039;ve also had some good luck with a &quot;mesh network&quot; of an old cisco wrt54g hooked to an engenious dual band eap600.&nbsp; The eap 600 is a dual band that allows you to configure the 2.4ghz side independently from the 5ghz side.&nbsp; 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&#039;d be happy to share more info if anyone is interested.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Declan Slater, post: 84748, member: 964"] Re: Help With Mating The Apple Airport Extreme To My X-32.... 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. [/QUOTE]

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