Comments on: How-To: Setup an Airport Extreme in Bridge Mode

By: steve seidman

steve seidman — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:46:46 +0000

The RG wireless range is pretty limited, so I tried to use an Airport in bridge mode to get better range. However, I also have Cat 5 attached to the UVerse RG in order to reach a studio in the back yard. The two ethernet uses conflicted, so the Cat 5 network stopped working. How can I remove this conflict?

By: BG

BG — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:19:16 +0000

is it possible to do this without ethernet adress ? that is only use it as a booster for an existing wifi without ethernet connection In case it is : HOW ?

By: jp4revolt

jp4revolt — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:31:57 +0000

I am lost as to what all this means you guys are talking about. I had uverse installed yesterday. There was a network name and password for the gateway so we disabled that then I searched and found my airport extreme on a closed network and followed the instructions for bridge mode. What does that mean? Is my network secure? I guess I just don’t understand why I did that or the benefit.

By: tony maietta

tony maietta — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:28:14 +0000

Howie,

do you have a step by step procedure for doing the U-verse changes? I was on a Airport Extreme (wife's computer, wireless network thru AT&T DSL, and all the printers). Since getting the UVerse, we only get internet. How can I set up my Uverse and Airport so that 1) airport runs my home wireless network and I only use the Uverse for the TV and Phone stuff. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks Tony

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:07:27 +0000

Thanks for this. I have FIOS and had to search around for a while until I found this solution so I could use my Airport Extreme with the Actiontec router that verizon supplies. It was super easy and works great.

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How-To: Setup an Airport Extreme in Bridge Mode | Software Firewall — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:37:12 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:55:24 +0000

just FYI, DMZ mode on a router is NOT the same thing as bridge mode.

By: Howie Isaacks

Howie Isaacks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:37:52 +0000

I’ve never had this problem. I VPN into my home network, and I VPN out. I’ve used both PPTP VPN, and Cisco VPN. No problems here. I’ve had U-Verse for over 3 years.

By: Howie Isaacks

Howie Isaacks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:35:56 +0000

I didn’t have to go through all of this trouble with U-Verse. I simply logged into the U-Verse gateway, turned off the wireless network, then went into the firewall settings, and set it to send all traffic to the Airport Extreme. Now, the U-Verse gateway only handles networking for the set to box, but allows my Airport Extreme to run my home network. I use NAT to send certain kinds of traffic to specific computers on my network. It’s nowhere near the complicated situation you’ve made this out to be.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:15:34 +0000

When sharing your disks make sure you tick the “Share disks over the Internet using bonjour” box on the “file sharing” tab otherwise you will only be able to access your disks through wifi and not through a cabled connection.