My family and I are fairly invested into the Apple ecosystem these days. I have a use case where I want to use my iPhone to stream music from online sources while connected to AT&T, but play the output over AirPlay to my Airport Express. In this case, the Airport express is NOT connected to the internet so I need to depend on AT&T for the content.
Through various searches I've found some tidbits that make this work...but it's incredibly unreliable/inconsistent.
I set up the AE to host a WLAN but choose Bridge mode (DHCP and NAT turned OFF). This allows me to connect to the WLAN but it doesn't issue an IP address. The online sources (Pandora, etc) stream over AT&T and the output plays over AirPlay to the AE. The problem is that sometimes it will play for an entire day this way, and other times it will play for several minutes then stop. If I reconnect I may get a few more minutes, or it may play for 5 more hours.
I realize streaming Pandora probably isn't "audiophile" relevant, but I figured there may be other use cases for this approach and you guys seem to be a technical bunch. Any ideas?
