Set up: Connecting your Wi-Fi base stations together
Use Ethernet to connect from a LAN port of the primary Wi-Fi base station to the
WAN port of an extended Wi-Fi base station. The primary base station is the base station connected directly to the Internet.
➊ Primary Wi-Fi base station
➋ Extended Wi-Fi base station
To configure a roaming network
- Power on all 802.11n Wi-Fi base stations and allow them time to appear in the AirPort Menu Extra.
- Open AirPort Utility (On a Mac, choose Go > Applications from your desktop, click the Utilities folder, then open AirPort Utility. In Microsoft Windows, choose Start > All Programs > AirPort to start AirPort Utility).
- If you are configuring the primary Wi-Fi base station, set Connection Sharing to "Share a public IP address."
If you are configuring the extended Wi-Fi base stations, set Connection Sharing to "Off (Bridge Mode)." - Use AirPort Utility to configure the Wireless Network Name, security, and password on each Wi-Fi base station to be exactly the same.