AE/n and USB hub (shared drives, printers ...) more info

[Matt Johnston]

On 23 Feb 2007, at 22:36, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> because, my understanding (and experience) is that I can't be on  
> two networks at the same time --
> therefore, I can't be doing Internet related things while streaming  
> music
> am I wrong about that ?

Okay...

You currently have an 802.11b based network which we'll call Kev's G  
Network. These airport express devices are connected by ethernet.

So, then you add a second network connected via Ethernet "Kev's N  
Network"

This means you connect the N devices to the N network and the G  
devices to the G network. You can hide the SSIDs if you need to.  
Because they are all connected together along the WIRED ethernet  
backbone, you can stream music to the G-devices over ethernet and  
will still get full N-speed transfers. Also, if the N-level device  
crashes, you can pop onto the G network :)

Integrating them in any other way is silly :) IMO [1]

M

[1] though I can think of good reasons to do so. I just would not  
choose them.