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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:

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> On 24 Feb 2007, at 00:06, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> I have three Airport Expresses - one for each floor in the house -  
>> each connected to a stereo system.
>> They all "join an existing wireless network".
>> I've been using the AExs like this since they first came out.
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> So why change this?

because , my question early on was :  if I go to all n capable  
computers, what performance effect does having Airport expresses on  
the wireless network if those expresses are set up as "join existing  
wireless network) ?  Does simply having them on the network affect  
performance between two n capable computers if neither computer is  
actually streaming to an express at the given time?

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> Presumably they connect to your broadband with a cable?

They connect wirelessly to my AE/n and my AE/n connects via ethernet  
to the one ethernet port on my cable modem (Comcast)

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> If there's another port on this broadband router, just add the new  
> Air-Extreme to it (or plug it in as a router between the broadband  
> and the first Airport express.
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> Run a separate network.
>
> Best of both worlds.

In the past, I tried running them as separate networks, but I  
probably had it set up wrong  .. as I couldn't be streaming to the  
music network while working over the Internet.
My airport card in my Powerbook could only connect to one network at  
a time.  iTunes (multiple remote speakers) would only show what was  
available on the network I was currently on.   Using the airport  
wizard setup, I didn't see any options other than doing what I'd done

Am I really misunderstanding something?

I have an ethernet switch.  Is there a way I can use that ?  right  
now, I have two computers (the PB17 and the G4/500 going over  
ethernet via the switch , which is plugged into one of the three LAN  
ports on the back of the AE/n).

also, if this is considered off topic for Mac OS  X , we can continue  
this privately