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drater

macrumors 6502a
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Oct 6, 2005
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The bowels of CT
I have an Airport Extreme and an iPhone and for some reason the iPhone is now not connecting to the iPhone. The iPhone doesn't even see it when it searches for wifi...anyone know what is going on?

*its a new airport extreme*
 

aristobrat

macrumors G5
Oct 14, 2005
12,292
1,403
Do you have the Extreme set in 802.11-n only mode? An iPhone wouldn't be able to see that. :confused:
 

aristobrat

macrumors G5
Oct 14, 2005
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1,403
I ended up hanging an old 802.11b/g access point (in bridge mode) off of my Airport Extreme. Two separate wireless networks in my house, but at least the slower devices can still get WiFi without hosing up my 5GHZ 802.11n-only network. :)
 

drater

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Oct 6, 2005
715
0
The bowels of CT
I ended up hanging an old 802.11b/g access point (in bridge mode) off of my Airport Extreme. Two separate wireless networks in my house, but at least the slower devices can still get WiFi without hosing up my 5GHZ 802.11n-only network. :)


ooooooooo, how would I do that?
 

jecapaga

macrumors 601
Jul 1, 2007
4,291
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Southern California
I ended up hanging an old 802.11b/g access point (in bridge mode) off of my Airport Extreme. Two separate wireless networks in my house, but at least the slower devices can still get WiFi without hosing up my 5GHZ 802.11n-only network. :)

i need to do that. changing my new extreme to deal with N screws me and my laptop N enabled, no?
 

aristobrat

macrumors G5
Oct 14, 2005
12,292
1,403
Sorry, didn't see you bump earlier. :eek:

Plug one of the B/G routers LAN ports into one of the N's LAN ports, set the B/G router to bridge mode, and the B/G router a different ESSID than the N router.
 
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