Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater...

From	"John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater...
Date	2015-08-20 01:27 +0000
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References	<mqqvsj$8a1$1@dont-email.me> <mr0qb7$lq7$1@dont-email.me> <180820152300590178%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 03:00:59 UTC, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> 
wrote:

> In article <mr0qb7$lq7$1@dont-email.me>, TDH1978
> <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> wrote:
> 
> > I thought I should give everyone an update.  I bought a small $30 
> > D-Link N300 DAP-1320 WiFi Extender, and extended my WiFi network (new 
> > SSID).  The extender made a huge difference to my 2013 iPhone 5 
> > (download/upload speeds increased ten fold) but, strangely enough, it 
> > made almost no difference to my 2010 MacBookPro.  The benefit however 
> > was enough for me to decide to keep the little thing for now.  Sadly, 
> > my 2010 Airport Extreme, which used to be my primary base station 
> > before my ISP imposed their Sagemcom base station on me when I signed 
> > up for an IPTV package, is now sitting in the corner doing nothing; it 
> > served me well for 5 years. 
> 
> you can hook up the airport and then disable wifi on the sagecomm.

Via Ethernet. That's what I did when Verizon FiOs required me to use
their Actiontec router in order to get TV. I let Actiontec manage 
DHCP since they have to do that for the TV STBs. 

> > The ISP has indicated to me that if I were 
> > to use the Airport Extreme as my primary base station, they would not 
> > provide me with technical support.
> 
> they're lying.
> 
> they won't help you with the airport (no surprise there), but they are
> required to support their own stuff as long as you keep paying them.
> 
> or just don't tell them what you did. it's not like they can tell.


-- 
John Varela

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Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-08-16 17:40 -0400
  Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-16 18:06 -0400
    Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-08-16 22:10 -0400
      Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... Dedomen <avdija@eeepc.link.ba> - 2015-08-17 05:00 +0200
        Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-17 00:21 -0400
          Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-08-17 17:53 -0400
            Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-17 18:11 -0400
              Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-08-17 20:47 -0400
                Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-17 21:02 -0400
                Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-18 13:39 +1200
                Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nadsat <bb@newsspeak.com> - 2015-08-18 12:02 +0100
        Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-08-17 07:11 -0700
  Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-08-16 20:34 -0600
  Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... TDH1978 <thedeerhunter1978@movie.uni> - 2015-08-18 22:42 -0400
    Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-18 23:00 -0400
      Re: Airport Extreme as WiFi repeater... "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-08-20 01:27 +0000

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