One of my roommates has an Airport Extreme that just refuses to be set up on our network for some reason. After that mess, we took 2 minutes and set up a Linksys WRT120N that works perfectly.
The problem is that one roommate needs his Airport Extreme so that he can hook up his external hard drives. Is it a pain to daisy chain the routers or should it be just as easy as plugging his router into the first ethernet port of the Linksys?
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Can you 'daisy chain' two routers?
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You can set the Airport Extreme to Bridge Mode in the Internet tab->Connection Sharing. This will allow the Airport to be part of the network, but have the Linksys handle all of the NAT and such.
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Just disable the DHCP on the airport and it will function like an access point.
Forgot to add, make sure you plug the ethernet cable into a switch port on the air port express, not the WAN port.
Forgot to add, make sure you plug the ethernet cable into a switch port on the air port express, not the WAN port.
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