Comments on: How to create a wireless mesh network with Apple AirPorts http://islandinthenet.com/2009/05/15/creating-a-wireless-mesh-with-apple-airports/ Hints, Tips and How To Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Khurt http://islandinthenet.com/2009/05/15/creating-a-wireless-mesh-with-apple-airports/comment-page-1/#comment-2977 Khurt Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:27:54 +0000 http://islandinthenet.com/?p=1176#comment-2977 <p>Is it possible to "have two (or more) routes to the internet shared and managed" with ANY wireless network equipment? They way I have the WDS setup on my network the user never notices if anyone of the remote stations fails. The connection is simply handed off to the active node.</p> Is it possible to “have two (or more) routes to the internet shared and managed” with ANY wireless network equipment? They way I have the WDS setup on my network the user never notices if anyone of the remote stations fails. The connection is simply handed off to the active node.

]]> By: Ketema's Notes http://islandinthenet.com/2009/05/15/creating-a-wireless-mesh-with-apple-airports/comment-page-1/#comment-2975 Ketema's Notes Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:31:58 +0000 http://islandinthenet.com/?p=1176#comment-2975 <p><strong>Sharing multiple internet routes within a WDS network...</strong></p> <p>My home net work is comprised of Central Florida Bright House Business Class cable internet.  The cable modem connects to a linux server acting as a router and running iptables as a firewall.  I won't get into the suckyness of Brighthouse ri...</p> Sharing multiple internet routes within a WDS network…

My home net work is comprised of Central Florida Bright House Business Class cable internet.  The cable modem connects to a linux server acting as a router and running iptables as a firewall.  I won’t get into the suckyness of Brighthouse ri…

]]> By: @ketema http://islandinthenet.com/2009/05/15/creating-a-wireless-mesh-with-apple-airports/comment-page-1/#comment-2974 @ketema Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:57:31 +0000 http://islandinthenet.com/?p=1176#comment-2974 <p>Nice article. I have used WDS with Apple products for about 6 to 7 months and have not had any issues. I only use two devices, an Airport extreme and an airport express. I originally had the express first so when I brought the extreme home it was the remote node while the express had the "internet" connection. I put that in quotes because something that is different in my set up compared to most of the stories here is that I have never used either device as the connection to my ISP. I put their ethernet ports into bridge mode and they both have internal ips on my home net work. The point of my post is that my only issues were always power related, whenever the express would lose connection even for a moment the extreme would also go down and take several minutes to come back up even though the express was much quicker in restoring connectivity. Due to this I got it in my head to have redundancy on the bridged "internet" connection I plugged an ether net cable into the extreme and set its ether net from off to bridged just like the express. The result was not what I expected. Instead of having two routes for traffic to take to get out to the internet, I created a loop. The apple devices were not smart enough to know this. I played around with setting them both to main nodes in the WDS, both remotes, and every other combination they would allow, but in the end it just did not work. Only one could have the "internet" connection. I have not yet found any documentation from apple explaining why this limitation exists or if there is a way around it, but hopefully if any one else has the same set up as me and runs into this issue my experience will help them. So to date I settled on the extreme becoming the main WDS node and the express going to remote. The extreme seems to be a little more stable and freezes less, but I am still screwed because if it goes down, any wireless clients connected to the express go down too. If any one can figure out how to have two (or more) routes to the internet shared and managed in an Apple WDS network please let me know.</p> Nice article. I have used WDS with Apple products for about 6 to 7 months and have not had any issues. I only use two devices, an Airport extreme and an airport express. I originally had the express first so when I brought the extreme home it was the remote node while the express had the “internet” connection. I put that in quotes because something that is different in my set up compared to most of the stories here is that I have never used either device as the connection to my ISP. I put their ethernet ports into bridge mode and they both have internal ips on my home net work. The point of my post is that my only issues were always power related, whenever the express would lose connection even for a moment the extreme would also go down and take several minutes to come back up even though the express was much quicker in restoring connectivity. Due to this I got it in my head to have redundancy on the bridged “internet” connection I plugged an ether net cable into the extreme and set its ether net from off to bridged just like the express. The result was not what I expected. Instead of having two routes for traffic to take to get out to the internet, I created a loop. The apple devices were not smart enough to know this. I played around with setting them both to main nodes in the WDS, both remotes, and every other combination they would allow, but in the end it just did not work. Only one could have the “internet” connection. I have not yet found any documentation from apple explaining why this limitation exists or if there is a way around it, but hopefully if any one else has the same set up as me and runs into this issue my experience will help them. So to date I settled on the extreme becoming the main WDS node and the express going to remote. The extreme seems to be a little more stable and freezes less, but I am still screwed because if it goes down, any wireless clients connected to the express go down too. If any one can figure out how to have two (or more) routes to the internet shared and managed in an Apple WDS network please let me know.

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