Airport express

I don't see why that wouldn't work - you set the AE up as a network bridge.
I use it slightly differently, using it to connect the HDX to the router wirelessly. I presume the Uniti would work in the same way?

It should work but NASes which unless uber expensive ones tends to be slow already may well choke in such a situation.

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Thanks for the response. Wasn't sure if the AE would act essentially as a hub and allow me to have an ethernet connection and DHCP on a CAT5 rather than wireless connection

They're a magic little box. An underrated product IMHO.

Nero, are you connecting to an Apple Extreme as your main wireless router? The AE only seems to want to bridge to apple units. I can see two options, use the AE to create its own wireless network and just have the NAS and the Uniti on it. When I need to load music on the NAS I can just change the wirless connection of my desktop (have tested but doesn't seem to work). Option 2 is to use the AE to join the existing network but that has a cr*ppy free Sky router and appears to be causing drop outs. Going this way will just create additional hops between the NAS and the Uniti. Unfortunately cabled isn't an option at the moment

I'm connecting to an Apple TimeCapsule at the moment, so I'm using that as the router. Originally, I was using a Draytek router with the AE, and it was a bit fiddly to set up, but I got the TC so it gave me a NAS aswell as adding 802.11n wireless. I am sure the AE doesn't need another Apple device to talk to, but it probably helps
I think garyi is is much better qualified to help though!

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I'm connecting to an Apple TimeCapsule at the moment, so I'm using that as the router. Originally, I was using a Draytek router with the AE, and it was a bit fiddly to set up, but I got the TC so it gave me a NAS aswell as adding 802.11n wireless. I am sure the AE doesn't need another Apple device to talk to, but it probably helps
I think garyi is is much better qualified to help though!

My AE was much happier talking to my TC than to the "other brand" router I had previously. I think the TC has a very good router (and it would want to, for the price!).

Actually i am not in a position to offer real world comment.

Basically a few years ago I realised if I wanted to do this distributed larkey it was not an option to piss around or try and do it on the cheap.

I use an expensive draytek adsl2+ gigabit/n router, 16port gigiabit switch delivering gigabit ethernet to every room in the house and twice into the rooms down stairs, and 3 in the garage.

The garage contains a droboshare with 2.2tb of storage on tap.

By paying out on the backbone (router and switch) and using wires for critical application I rarely if ever run into any issues (touch wood)

My advice, really is to do it properly. Ethernet, and a decent router. This is not the BThome hub.