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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:11 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 23-Feb-2007, at 18:08, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>> would it be better to hang my 1 year old Airport Extreme (g) off  
>> the AE/n via ethernet ... and then have the expresses join the AE/g ?
>
> Yes.

Thanks to everyone's help and suggestions, especially Matt's, I've  
opted to keep my AE/g and set up two networks using the new AE/n (n- 
only) with a bridge to the year-old AE/g (g-only devices including  
AExpresses).  Shared drive off the AE/n is working flawlessly now  
that I swapped out the Belkin USB hub for an iogear USB hub, ie:  no  
more shared drive disconnects.   This setup should work well  as I  
add more n-enabled machines or devices to the n-only network.

I'm a bit concerned with the strength of the signal going to my MBPro  
(the only n machine on the AE/n network).  I'm getting 2 - 4 bars ...  
lots of change in signal strength, whereas before the dual network  
setup, I was getting a solid 4 bars all the time.  I suppose the AE/g  
could be causing some interference?


The only thing that freaked me out was seeing a half-dozen of these  
in my log:

Feb 24 10:31:18	Severity:3	Administrative access denied to  
fe80::217:f2ff:feeb:f513%bridge0/58704.

And after carefully looking at the logs, I realized this was the  
time.apple.com automatic sync.

Not sure why it was looking for admin access, though.

k