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• Add base stations wirelessly via Wireless Distribution System

(WDS). This method avoids new wires, but can have severe speed

limitations in comparison to Ethernet.

I write “mix and match” because you can use any combination of

Ethernet and WDS to build a network. Let’s start with the

simpler case,

which is to Add Access Points via Ethernet. After that, there’s a sidebar

about Extending with HomePlug, in case you want to use your home’s

electrical system in place of Ethernet. And, finally, I talk about how to

Bridge

Wirelessly.

Create or Extend a Network

When you work in AirPort Utility to build a network of two or more

base stations, connecting them with Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or a hybrid,

you will need to choose an option from a pop-up menu in the

Wireless View. Those options may confuse you, so let’s look at them

first. For each base station, in the Wireless view's Network Mode pop

up menu, you can choose either of two options:

✦

Create a Wireless Network is for either a main base station in a

wirelessly connected network (or pod of access points), or each

base station connected via Ethernet.

✦

Extend a Wireless Network might seem like the right option for

adding a base station via Ethernet, but it is not. Extend a Wireless

Network refers only to extending wirelessly: when you connect

two or more base stations with Wi-Fi, the additional base

station(s) that have only a wireless connection to the network use

this Extend option.

What about ProxySTA?

The ProxySTA mode of extending an existing Wi-Fi network with an

Express is another method, but it has its limits: it works only with

an AirPort Express, and it allows only the extension of the network

via the LAN Ethernet port on the Express. In contrast, linking base

stations with Ethernet and WDS creates a larger and full-featured

LAN with both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity.

See Connect to Any Base Station, a few pages earlier, for details on

ProxySTA.

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