Comments on: How to: Extend your Airport network with WDS

By: wesg

wesg — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:45:28 +0000

@Vagner Monteiro:
1. WDS is an excellent to use if you have multiple base stations in the house. It functions to extend the range of the network, not necessarily to increase bandwidth.
2. To get the Express to talk to the Extreme, you’ll have to set the Extreme to include G networks (that’s what mine uses). From what I’ve experienced, devices connected to the Extreme use N, while devices connecting to the Express use G regardless of N compatibility.

By: Vagner Monteiro

Vagner Monteiro — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:00:03 +0000

Hello, 2 questions:
1. Is WDS really good? (because it uses half band to talk eachother)
2. If I have an new Airport Extreme (n) and an Airport Express (g), all the network will be on g ?

By: John

John — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:05:36 +0000

I got this message when the WDS remote authentication was on WPA and the WDS main was on WEP. Just check that as well.

By: hexman

hexman — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:01:56 +0000

I haven’t seen that either. But, if I were to guess, it sounds like it could be one of two things: check under ‘Airport’ and ‘Access’ to see if you have ‘MAC Address Access Control’ enabled. If you have this turned on, you need to make sure the MAC addresses are correct (disable it to see if that fixes the issue, then check them carefully if you want to turn it on). The other thing to check is under ‘Internet’ and ‘DHCP’ make sure you don’t have an IP address reserved that is incorrect (for example, it says for a specific computer and is the address for your airport). This second one seems unlikely, but is worth checking.

By: wesg

wesg — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:45:11 +0000

@Gustaf Lindqvist: I’ve never seen an error like that myself, but I only have access to my own Airport. Are the two base stations using the same protocol? (ie. Wireless G or N). You said that error is in the log, what is shown by the base station software itself?

By: Gustaf Lindqvist

Gustaf Lindqvist — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:31:02 +0000

Hi, thanks for the great tutorial about extending network via WDS. Even if the your tutorial is helping me, I didn’t get my Airport Express to work with my Airport Extreme. I get this fault in the log all the time: Deauthenticating with station xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (reserved 2). Do you got any ideas what my cause this problem? The Airport Express connecting all the time and at the same time loosing the conncetion.