We have two wireless networks in our house which seems stupid. Until now, we've shrugged it off and ignored the wifi created by the fios router and use a wired Time Capsule to create a wifi network that we use. Now, there's a new feature where we could watch tv in other rooms on our iphone, ipads, etc. That's great except the TV is on the wifi that came with the FIOS router instead of the wifi the rest of us in the house are using.
So, I googled about it to see what I could do to combine the networks. It turns out you cannot extend the fios wifi with the Time Capsule because the Apple Airport devices have features for extending networks that the fios wifi doesn't have. I found I could turn off the fios wifi but then the DVR wouldn't have an internet connection. So, I thought, I'll change the DVR ot use the Time Capsule wifi, which I'd prefer because we want to keep that network. I checked the DVR and found the home network settings -- and it turned out to be a place where you can see the settings, but you can't change the settings there, but there has to be a way to set it up somewhere, no?
Ideally, I'd turn off the FIOS wifi and change the DVR over to use our existing home network. At the moment, we will have to switch networks, depending on what we want to do. We use the Time Capsule for backups, to share files, for airtunes, etc. It also extends thru the entire house whereas the FIOS one doesn't. If we wanted to use the new features to watch programs from ipads, etc, we'd have to switch them over to the other network while we did. It's just a bit of a pain.
Any ideas? Thanks!
