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Mac Airport Wireless disabled my other routers?

I have 2 Linksys router in my office I could use any of them specially for may wireless printing ,today I add another wireless base MAC Airport Extrem .Now I can not go online with my two other routers, I can see them from my Mac G5 laptop ( OX 10.5 Leopard).but they will not connect to internet or printer ..I can use only Mac Airport Exterem only for internet not printer .anyone knows why my other two router does not respond by the way other pc I have they are online wireless via my Linksys routers??

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Using more than one router always causes problems. They tend to conflict, can disrupt your network and also divide your network into subnets. For local area use plus internet you should only use one router, then add ports using a network switch, or more than one switch, and for wireless either use a single wireless router feeding the wired and wireless machines, or add a wireless access point to the existing network. This will also make the whole network faster.

  • Mike M
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Maybe the new AirPort base station is broadcasting its own network separate from the one being broadcast by the Linksys routers. In your Applications folder, go into the Utilities folder and open AirPort Admin Utility. Select the AirPort Extreme and open its configuration window. (Now, I don't have Leopard yet, so I don't know what's changed since Tiger and what hasn't, but...) Find a drop-down menu in one of the tabs that lets you switch the AirPort Extreme between creating its own wireless network, or joining an existing one, and select the latter. (You'll probably have to fill in the network's name and password.) After saving the changes you've made and allowing the AirPort Extreme time to restart, it should start simply extending the range of the Linksys routers' wireless network. Hope this helps!

    Source(s): Three years of adventures with an AirPort Express, may it rest in peace ;)
  • 1 decade ago

    i am not sure.. but as far as my knowledge goes .. with Mac .. at one time you could have only one connection...

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