apple airport as wireless bridge

I am trying to link an apple airport extreme to the BT HomeHub (Thomson
Speedtouch core) using the airport setup software. Everything goes fine
until I get to a point where it asks for a password. I have tried both
the admin user password and the WEP key but no joy. Any idea what
password should I use (I have had one problem with the iMac assuming
that the WEP key is not the 40/128 hex variety, so it could be that).

Failing that I could set up the airport manually, but need the WDS
settings - anyone know what they should be?

Rusty

<pug@i-2-v.co.uk> wrote:

> I am trying to link an apple airport extreme to the BT HomeHub (Thomson
> Speedtouch core) using the airport setup software. Everything goes fine
> until I get to a point where it asks for a password. I have tried both
> the admin user password and the WEP key but no joy. Any idea what
> password should I use (I have had one problem with the iMac assuming
> that the WEP key is not the 40/128 hex variety, so it could be that).
>
> Failing that I could set up the airport manually, but need the WDS
> settings - anyone know what they should be?

Instructions for configuring the AirPort Extreme base station for WDS
are contained in Chapter 4 of Apple's Designing AirPort Networks
handbook. Use the AirPort Admin Utility rather than the Setup Assistant
to configure the base station for WDS. To download the handbook, go to
Apple's AirPort support site at <http://www.apple.com/support/airport/>.

The old AirPort Extreme base station can do WDS only with a few
non-Apple models that use Broadcom chips, but I don't know if the BT
HomeHub is one of them. It can't operate in client mode with the stock
Apple firmware.

pug@i-2-v.co.uk hath wroth:

>I am trying to link an apple airport extreme to the BT HomeHub (Thomson
>Speedtouch core) using the airport setup software. Everything goes fine
>until I get to a point where it asks for a password. I have tried both
>the admin user password and the WEP key but no joy. Any idea what
>password should I use (I have had one problem with the iMac assuming
>that the WEP key is not the 40/128 hex variety, so it could be that).

That's the most common problem with WEP. There are at least 3 ways
for different manufactories to convert the ASCII WEP key to Hex. If
you use just the Hex keys, you shouldn't have any compatibilty issues.

>Failing that I could set up the airport manually, but need the WDS
>settings - anyone know what they should be?
>
>Rusty
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