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AirPort Network Designs

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AirPort Network Designs 3 3 This chapter provides overview information and instructions for the types of AirPort networks you can set up using AirPort Admin Utility. Use this chapter to design and set up your AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network. If you are using AirPort Express, you'll find additional information in Chapter 4, "Using AirPort Express," on page 55 to help set up your AirPort Express network. Configuring your base station to implement a network design involves three steps: Step 1: Setting Up the AirPort Network Computers communicate with the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express over the AirPort wireless network. When you set up the AirPort network created by the base station, you can name the wireless network, assign a password needed to join the wireless network, and set other options. Step 2: Configuring and Sharing Internet Access When computers access the Internet via the AirPort network, the base station connects to the Internet and transmits information to the computers over the network. You provide the base station with settings appropriate for your ISP and configure how the base station shares this connection with other computers. Step 3: Setting Advanced Options You can set up the base station as a bridge between your AirPort network and an Ethernet network, set advanced security options, set up a Wireless Distribution System (WDS) to extend the AirPort wireless network, and fine-tune other AirPort settings. For specific instructions on all these steps, refer to the sections later in this chapter. 15

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AirPort Network Designs
This chapter provides overview information and
instructions for the types of AirPort networks you can
set up using AirPort Admin Utility.
Use this chapter to design and set up your AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network.
If you are using AirPort Express, you’ll find additional information in Chapter 4, “Using
AirPort Express,” on page 55 to help set up your AirPort Express network.
Configuring your base station to implement a network design involves three steps:
Step 1:
Setting Up the AirPort Network
Computers communicate with the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express over
the AirPort wireless network. When you set up the AirPort network created by the base
station, you can name the wireless network, assign a password needed to join the
wireless network, and set other options.
Step 2:
Configuring and Sharing Internet Access
When computers access the Internet via the AirPort network, the base station connects
to the Internet and transmits information to the computers over the network. You
provide the base station with settings appropriate for your ISP and configure how the
base station shares this connection with other computers.
Step 3:
Setting Advanced Options
You can set up the base station as a bridge between your AirPort network and an
Ethernet network, set advanced security options, set up a Wireless Distribution System
(WDS) to extend the AirPort wireless network, and fine-tune other AirPort settings.
For specific instructions on all these steps, refer to the sections later in this chapter.