Airport Extreme + Sky Router

Turbo-G

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Hi guys,
I currently have a bog standard Sky ADSL wireless router downstairs, of which the wifi connectivity is too unstable for my liking throughout most of the house.

On the Mac upstairs I use D-Link Ethernet over power adapters which are great, but my other wireless devices seem to suffer (work laptop, iPad, iPhone etc). As it stands I have my iMac acting as a wireless access point which I switch to when I'm upstairs on said devices which is OK, but not ideal as the Mac needs to be on.

I've been looking at the Airport Extreme base station, and have seen mostly positive reviews which is good....

I'm aware I'd still need to use an ADSL modem of some sort to provide the internet connection to the Airport router. Am I right in thinking that I could just re-use the sky box, switching off the wireless access point functionality, thus turning the device into a modem only?

Thanks in advance.
 
Yes you can, this is exactly what I am going to do when I get my MBP for the exact same reason as you (flakey wireless from sky router) Plus the extra gigabit switches and USB port for a shared external HDD really swayed it for me
 
It's possible that the Airport Extreme's have just been updated, they have a new model number but nobody has tested. Unless they've made big improvements there are much better routers about for less.

And yes you can use the Sky box in bridged mode. How you do this depends upon which one you have and you'll need to unlock it first.
 
I've been doing the same for the last 3 years in Cyprus. Cyta gave us a crappy Speedtouch/Thomson router so I just plugged my WRT610N into it and use that as my Wireless Gigabit Router. The only thing you might have to do which I have is use static IP address's for your devices as sometimes my devices pickup my WRT610N as the Default Gateway instead the Speedtouch when using DHCP.
 
My AEBS has two drives on it, one for Time Machine for my iMac, and one with all my films on - I haven't measured the speed because I'm not that way inclined but I've found the speeds more than good enough. Mine's wired but I've used it wireless too and it was fine then as well. Much better wired, but that's the network not the connection between AEVS and drive.
 
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