Cannot Connect to the Internet via Airport Extreme: 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Network Extension ...

I know that you can use an AirPort Express to extend the coverage of an existing network, but can AirPort Extreme be used for that too?

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AE Attached Disks - Won't wake and ...

Add this to the existing string of issues with attached disks.

New LaCie 1TB Poulton drive, along with another 250gb drive attached to powered USB, attached to Airport Extreme and new MBP. 1TB holds iTunes, and other disk is for Time Machine.

Problem 1: When I startup,the disks do not automatically mount. I have to browse the AE to get them to show up and be available.

Problem 2: If the MPB goes to sleep, the disks will not stay available. They usually still appear on the desktop, but attempts to access them freezes Finder for up to 2 minutes. If it recovers, all is ok--but if not, Finder crashes and the MPB must be rebooted.

This is really a huge problem for me, as the behavior is just erratic. I've downgraded to 7.4.1, and didn't see any improvement or change in behavior. I am at the point where I am considering moving my iTunes library off of the external disk and back local, just so I don't have to deal with this anymore.

Any other ideas or surgery I can do on the AE settings? There has to be a solution here...

Thanks in advance.

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Not seeing the AirPort Extreme's ...

I having issues with my AirPort Extreme. I'm not sure exactly where the issue is so I'm posting here for some suggestions.

Basically, I'm running a MacBook Pro (see below for stats) with an AirPort Extreme base station (model before dual-band, N-draft capable, latest firmware). I don't think my laptop is broken because I can see the neighbor's network, though it's just out of reach for me to connect to. The problem is, my AirPort says it's fine. I tried restarting, uploading new firmware and even went as far as bringing i back to factory settings.

The problem is, the light still is green and I still don't see a network. To make things more interesting ethernet seems to be working fine (I'm using it now). I'd love to test another computer on the network so I can be sure the laptop isn't the problem but at the moment I'm the only person with a computer that can be used (dad's got a nasty virus). I'll be trying my computer on a different network tomorrow at work so I can verify it then.

That's one other thought I've had. I went down to grab my dad's laptop and see if it could connect when he told me to leave it because something was running havoc on the system a little bit before I lost my connection suddenly.

I lost the connection while running Windows, by the way.

I don't think the two are connected or that if they were it's something a factory reset couldn't fix.

I'm out of ideas. Can anyone make any suggestions? Specifically how to double-check to make sure the AirPort isn't broken and doesn't know it?

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Weird, Airport Extreme works wired in, ...

So i have the ps3 hooked up through wire to the airport and it works fine, i can get online and its all good. weird thing is that the my laptop cant connect to it wifi'ly. The problem must be with the airport, not the ISP. so i was wondering if anyone knows how to kick the aiport in the head to make it work right? orr maybe did the wifi part of it die and i need to born-a-new airport?

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Connect to Airport Extreme Disk ...

Hi I have a brand new airport extreme with a 500gb Maxtor One Touch attached to it - I want to be able to use this for time machine backups - however
I can see the disk in the Airport Utility
I cannot connect to the disk at all in finder by its IP Address - Airport isnt even visible in the network (should it be ?)
In time machine it just sends me through the Airport utility then does nothing

Wireless is working great on the airport and it is running in bridge mode with an ethernet connection to a bt homehub (with wireless disabled)

Help would be greatly appreciated as its very frustrating

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Airport express as gaming adapter ...

SoI'm new to this. I don't have a router or modem, I pick my internet up on my macbook over a wireless connection provided by my school. I have a printer, that uses ethernet, but no wi fi connection (I'm cheap/poor).

I have a samsung bluy ray player that has an ethernet port for downloading netflix and otehr online content. Problem, no ehternet router to connect to.

I need to use my computer to access the internet and then I need to get the internet to the blu ray. Samsung sells a LinkStick for 80 bucks, it's proprietary and is otherwise useless. I've thought about a gaming adapter, but then I thought about the airport express.

How would I go about setting up the blu ray connection to the laptop? What devices do I need.A base station? An Airport Extreme, and Airport Express?

Is there a way I can set this up so that my printer is added to the network for remote printing?

And is there a way I can have 2 mac books connect to the printer for remote printing?

I suspect there is an easy naswer, but I'm clueless.

Help.

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Internet randomly goes out ...

I have an Airport extreme and airport express as an extender. Quite a few times a day, my internet will randomly go out, and i have to turn on and off the wireless card on my laptop. My ps3 will work for a while, but after about 2 days of working, it won't even connect anymore, and i have to restart the router. My windows computer won't connect ever. I've got dual band n/g set up. What do I do?

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Airport connection at full ...

I've had my airport for over a year and it's worked great. About a month or so ago, I noticed that my signal strength would suddenly diminish to one bar or cut out all together. Now, I'll start with full strength and within 30 minutes or so it will suddenly cut out. I physically bring my laptop next to the airport to reestablish the connection and it works great, then I walk 20 ft away and I lose the signal. It used to be that I could walk outside my house and have a full signal. Now I can't go down the hall. Does this sound like an update issue? I think I have all the recent updates.

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Importing a baseconfig ...

I bought an Airport Extreme to replace my Airport Express. I created a baseconfig file from the Express and chose to save the passwords for the network, internet and everything else into the baseconfig file so that I could import them to my new Extreme. This is important seeing as I can't remember my PPPoE password. The problem is, when I try to upload the baseconfig file no matter how many times I do it the passwords aren't uploaded. How do I get the passwords to upload as well?

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Model number of latest Airport Extreme ...

Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading my older Airport (b/g) to the latest model to get the N speed. What model number should I be looking for on the package to be sure I'm getting the model that was announced yesterday? I note that the predecessor was apparently the MB763LL model.

Thanks in advance,
Alan

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Internet connection continues to cut ...

I have an Airport Extreme set up as a home network and feeds into 5 devices: iMac, PC, Laptop and 2 iPhones.

The laptop is the most used and has a g WIFI. The connection keeps on cutting off randomly and when it cuts off the iMac and iPhone are working fine.

Anyone can help????

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Poor wireless N through walls and ...

I have an Airport Extreme Base Station with a 5GHz Wireless N Network. I've also got a 50Mbps down/1.5Mbps up internet connection.

When I'm in the same room as the router, and run an Internet speed test (from www.speedtest.net) on my MacBook, I get between 46 and 50 Mbps download and 1.5 upload, which is the same as I get when plugging an ethernet cable directly into the AEBS. If I move to the room above, I get about 20Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up.

If I move to the room behind the one above, the signal degrades to the point where I'm getting 7.5Mbps download and 1.5Mbps upload.

I've tried changing the multicast rate to see if I can improve the range, but it hasn't helped. I thought wireless N was supposed to solve the problem of going through walls and floors, but I'm finding it no better than 802.11g in my house.

Any ideas what I can do before running an ethernet cable directly from my AEBS to my study?

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expanding Extreme's max of 50 IP ...

Our company has 42 computers, each setup for both Lan and wireless access. At present we use a Linksys router for internet access and to provide IP address.

We have 1 Time Capsule and 1 Airport Exptreme - each with a max of 50 IP addresses (users). Does anyone know of a way to piggy back the 2 machines together in order to make a total of 100 IP addresses (users)???

any suggestions are welcome.

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Snow Leopard, Canon printer, Airport ...

I have a Canon Pixma MP170 printer connected to my iMac (wide screen) running OS X (Tiger).

I recently got a Macbook running Snow Leopard, which I use with Airport Express.

How can I set up my printer to run on my Macbook wireless? I downloaded the print drivers from Apple's download page for Canon printers and Snow Leopard, but what do I do or click or add or what now?

I hope it's not impossible because I love this printer.

Thanks!

Thank you!

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Airport set up with usb at

I just moved to a new area and dont have cable internet anymore. The only option is to use an at

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Back-up on Windows devices won't ...

I have an Airport extreme supporting 3 computers: iMAC, PC, Laptop.
The back-up function on iMac works prfectly well, however when it comes to windows nothing happens.

I have installed the airport extreme utility

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Airport Express LED off while not used? ...

Is there a way to change Aiport Express 'Flash on Activity' so that when not active LED goes off? Green LED shines like North Star at night - can't sleep w/o unplugging it.

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Netgear WNR2000 connection problems. ...

Hey there, my first post here so don't be mean if I'm being dumb

I got my first Mac recently, the 17" Unibody Macbook Pro (Late 2008 model), and I've been having a few problems with Airport Extreme. For most networks, airport works just as well as my old Windows laptop, but it seems to really not like our WNR2000. Normally it works fine, DHCP assigns me an IP and everything is great! As soon as I go to University and try to connect it to the wireless network there (which is awful, and normally doesn't work), then come back home and try to connect to our Wi-Fi, it simply won't do it. It refuses to get an IP address from the router, and even when setting the IP/Subnet/Router IP manually, it just won't work. I wind up with some self-assigned IP which is entirely wrong and it seems like it's just not talking to the router at all! The only way for me to fix this is to reboot the router, and then it works absolutely fine!

It's starting to drive me mad having to reboot our router all the time, and I've never had this problem with any other machine. I have tried fiddling with all the network settings I can find, but nothing seems to make any difference.

Is there something I am doing wrong, or something you could advise me to do? Or are OS X systems just not great at finding routers on a network sometimes?

Cheers in advance

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Upgrading to Airport Extreme ...

I've got an older flying saucer type Airport station. I just bought a new Airport Extreme with the dual sensing and faster speed. Is there a utility, like there is on the Mac, for transferring account settings from the old Airport to the new Airport? Or do I have to bite the bullet and just set up the network again?

Thanks.

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trying to connect to the internet ...

I had established a network. purchased time capsule all worked great.
I tried to set up wireless printer. Now my internet connection is all messed up and I cant seem to establish a network.
Need HELP!!

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Airport Extreme Website block.. ...

OK, I've got one for somebody smarter than me out there ( a lot i'm sure).
I have an airport extreme (n) and there is one particular website that I cannot access through the extreme, but if I pull the airport out and hook up directly to the cable modem I can get to this website. What gives? I get a warning like this:
Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.choicehotels.com/?" on this server.
Reference #18.72b1208.1234794491.13f1c1a

I went through earthlink and we determined it has to do with the airport..

Oh, the website is www.choicehotels.com

I have been able to access this up until about 3 weeks ago..

any helpful ideas?

Thanks

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Apartment - can't connect to Internet ...

I live in a large apartment complex with free internet through a wired network in the wall.

I tried installing my Airport Extreme and I can set up a network but it won't connect to the internet. I can't turn off the modem because it's somewhere in the building. Other people have their wireless networks set up so I know its possible but I'm stuck! I've tried a complete reset of the extreme to no avail.

Other info:
We connect with ethernet cables to 1 of 3 points in the apartment. When I connect my macbook using DCHP the internet takes a few minutes to come but it does work, especially if i have the network window open in "system".

Thank you in advance for your time.

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Airport won't print over the network ...

I have a basic HP Photosmart C4200 series printer. It works fine when I plug it directly into my computer but when I plug it into the router, it won't print and this message comes up : "Unable to read response header - short read"

When I delete/add the printer from Preferences, it finds the printer and establishes connection but when I try to print over the network, it gives me that error message.

A weird thing I found was that when connected to the airport, my printer shows up under the iDisks tab under the Airport Utilities instead of being in the Printers tab...

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Other router to bridge Airport Extreme ...

I use a Airport Extreme as my main router. I want to improve it's wireless signal because in my father's room it is a little weak because of the arquitecture of the apartment. I have other Linksys router that I am not using (it is a 802.11n too). Can I use it as a bridge to improve the signal of my Airport Extreme? Do I have to connect it with the Ethernet cable to the Airport?

P.S.: What is gateway?

Thanks.

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Multiple drives on Airport ...

Hi
Can I use an USB Hub to hook up more than one USB drive and can I hook up an USB printer to that same hub? I am currently using a AT

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Airtunes ...

This concept is completely new to me so please excuse my question which is probably really stupid -

Is it only possible to listen to music in the iTunes library using this device or can I listen to songs from my iPod touch? I don't keep songs in my library, all my music is on my iPod. If this is not possible, why is it not? Isn't the Wi-Fi technology there to allow connection through your wireless network between the iPod and the airtunes device without the need for a computer?

I'm confused. Any help would be appreciated.

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can't see public wifi network ...

Hi!
I want to connect my macbook pro with an open and free internet network in my neighborhood. I could always connect to it with older mac's istumbler (but that software doesn't work anymore with snow leopard) and with windows xp (which uses a realtek software to control de wireless card of that computer).
Now that I have this new notebook, I can't see that network on the airport list that appears when I click the airport icon ... but it does appear when I look at the System Profiler list of surrounding networks.
Another information that could help, is that the name of this hidden free and open network, is exactly the same as another that does have a wep encryption. Maybe airport extreme has to choose one of them and preferes the one with more security? Is there any way to access to that open network without the needing of extra softwares as istumbler? Any ideas?

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I can't wirelessly print from my vaio ...

I connected my Epson photo925 printer with airport extreme. I can print from my iMac but from my Sony vaio laptop, I can't print. What should I have to setup for PC to print wirelessly?

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Airport disk won't let Windows 7 copy ...

Dear readers,

I've got an Airport Extreme, with a PC (win7x64), Mac mini and USB disk (Lacie Porsche design 500Gb) connected (wired Gbit).
To get acces to the disk I already changed the Windows settings below. Now when I copy several files or 1 big file to the Airport-disk, Windows pops a message that the connection is lost (although I still see the disk in Explorer). I can chosse "skip" to skip the first file, after which the rest is copied perfectly.
The Synchronize tool "SyncToy" has no problem copiing any file to the disk.

So it seems Explorer has a problem initiating a connection needed for copiing in a first attempt, right? Perhaps SyncToy is more patient and waiting for a good connection?
Does anybody have a idea how to solve this?

Thank you

security setting change, needed to make the disk visible:

Go to Start Menu
Search for: security
Click on Local Security Policy
Goto Local Policies

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new mac, old airpot ...

The Airport Express (from 2005) that we use to extend our Airport's range isn't being seen by our new MacBook Pro. I've restored factory settings, unplugged it, updated the software, moved it and tried everything I can think of. Is it dead? Any suggestions?

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HD TiVo connection to Airport Extreme ...

I want to display my photos in iphoto on my HDTV. I have TiVo, the TiVo wifi unit and Airport Extreme. The Airport Extreme is ethernet connected to a PC. The photos are in iphoto on an Imac that runs fine wirelessly using the AE. I have installed TiVo desktop on the Imac. The Imac is recognized by Tivo but when I go to display photos there is a "network connection problem". Neither the Tivo help desk nor the Apple help desk can get me connected. I'm hoping some helpful users can give me the help I need. Thanks

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Airport Extreme Ps3 network HD ...

Hello everybody,

This is my first post as newbie mac user. I tried to find the answer to my question but i got kinda lost so here goes.

I am thinking about getting an airport extreme for my home network. I'd like to use my ps3 as a media streamer as well. Is it possible to connect a regular USB 2.0 external HD to the airport and also connect the ps3 to the airport and then stream my High Def files from the harddisk to the ps3 ?

Thanks !

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Noisy AEx Dual Band? ...

Got my AEx Dual Band and set it up this weekend. Connects via 5GHz to an AppleTV and Time Capsule; via LAN to my iMac / NAS / printer.

Good speeds, internet surfing is great, etc. It's as silent as a church mouse.

Tonight, the AppleTV was doing a major sync (hundreds of songs) and The Time Capsule began a backup. Call me crazy, but the AEx dual band started making noise!!! I swear I could hear a faint buzz with every song that was synced (you can see the titles progress on iTunes).

After cancelling the sync, all is silent again.

The AppleTV and Time Capsule are a couple of rooms away, so they are not the culprit.

Anyone else "hear" their AEx Dual Band?

Thanks

Will

EDIT: It DEFINITELY "buzzes" when syncing the AppleTV!!! Is this normal?

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WD Passport software removal ...

Does anyone know of a way to remove the software that pops up each time you insert a WD Passport USB drive? The software is called WD Smartware and it appears on the desktop as a CD icon. I have tried a number of easy solutions to no avail. Thanks in advance.

John

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Mac OSX server not supported behind ...

For a customer, I recently installed a new XServe, within a local network with an Airport Extreme (n) with FW 7.4.2. Mac OSX Server manages the router (which has a fixed IP from the ISP). Because the Mac OSX Server runs a DNS server (supporting a local domain), OSX Server reconfigured the Airport Extreme, so that it would forward DNS queries to the server. The server's dns server will forward queries for non-local domains to the ISP's dns servers.

All clients get their IP configuration using DHCP from the router. You can't use the DHCP service of the server, as you can't disable DHCP on the router (in NAT mode).

All clients get the router's IP as the dns server.

HOWEVER:

The Airport Extreme can't connect to the internal DNS server! It doesn't seem to be able to route dns requests to the internal network (verified using nslookup). Any dns queries sent to the router will time out.

Come on, Airport Extreme team.. you can't claim the Airport Extreme to be the ideal router in combination with an OSX server, if this simple and very common setup is not supported! How hard can it be to either:

...Allow us to disable DHCP on the router (even when in NAT mode), so we can use the OSX server for this (which will dispatch the correct DNS settings)
...Allow the router to route DNS queries to the local DNS (OSX) server (which should be working anyway)

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USB HB External Access - via Airport ...

Hi,

Am having trouble connecting to my USB HD over the internet - I don't think this is as straight forward as many queries I have seen to please read on.

I connect to the internet using an Airport Express. The Hd is connected to the Airport Extreme which acts as the link to the internal network.

Can I access the HD externally through the Express then Extreme? How do I do it?

All responses welcome

Thanks

Will

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iPhone knocks my Desktop Mac off of ...

I have WiFi in my home- my Mac Pro gets my internet via Airport from my wireless router. However, since I got my iPhone 3GS, if I connect it to the WiFi in my home, it kicks the desktop Mac off from having an internet connection. This also happens when my iBook laptop logs onto the router as well.

So, I can only use one device on my WiFi at a time. Anyone have this issue or have a fix?

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Wired and wireless network problem ...

I have an Airport Extreme setup with an 20" imac connected thru ethernet. I also have a 17" Macbook Pro connected wireless. Both have no problems connecting to the internet but I want to be able to talk to each other. I checked and the wired network has a different subnet then the wireless one. I would like to have them both on the same subnet but I can't seem to find a setting in my airport extreme that will allow me to change that.. The wired network seems to be the same subnet as the assigned address from my ISP. I only have 1 address from my ISP so the airport is not acting like a switch it is routing the data just creating a internal network based on the ip from the ISP. The wireless is handing out ip address that I have setup in the DHCP section.

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DHCP problems with public IP ...

Hi everyone,

I use a iMac (2007) witch is connected by wire to an Airport Extreme (2009). The Airport Extreme is connected by wire to our FortiNet60.

Till yesterday I had a connection to the other Macs and the internet. Yesterday I joind the mobile.me and want to use the "back to my mac"-function.

Until then the Airport had a fix IP itself and the DHCP was with a range from 192....100 to 192.....200.

Like its said in the manual I changed the DHCP-range to "public" to have the option "NAT" and when saving I get two problems: The starting DHCP-adress and the ending DHCP-adress doesn't work. When changing the starting DHCP-adress to 192.168.....1 it works but the ending not. I tried all from 2 to 255 but always the message there will be a conflict with this range.

What can I do?

When setting the "Internet" from manual to DHCP the DHCP-range will be accepted. But the I have no connection to the internet because I get an IP for the Airport 169.175....

Thanks

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Disabling SMB on AEBS ...

Hello,

I have no PC's at home, but my AEBS keeps offering SMB sharing for the disk I've attached to it. A Bonjour Browser shows it keeps offering SMB. Is there any way to turn off sharing using this Windows protocol on AEBS completely and stick to AFP only?

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'Mobile Internet Device's' to make a ...

Is it's is possible to use a 'Mobile Internet Device' for a WiFi hub????

I know I can connect my MacMini to the internet with one of these devices but is it viable to then make a WiFi network on the AirPort that my iPhone and Wii could then access the internet over?

It is NOT possible to directly connect to these USB's and join the internet as it is not a WiFi device. But is it possible to connect the MacMini to the internet and then set up a WiFi zone? "If So" what are the pitfalls or problems that anyone have found?!?.

I also can not directly connect to the internet as I do not wish to get locked into a fix line rental contract as I rent my room at the moment.

Any Help would be gratefully appreciated

(See Devices*)

(*usb version of a mobile phone)
(Mobile Modem)
(sim card enabled mobile USB stick)
(3G Mobile Internet)
(iPhone)
(Wii)

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Does the new AirPort Base Station still ...

I noticed the old Airport Base station had issues with torrent downloads and I was unable to establish good connections no matter what I did with the port settings, which ended in me returning it and getting a Netgear. I was wondering if this new Base Station had similar issues of if they are easily resolved this time around.

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Wireless network connection drops ...

Hi all,

I encountered a problem here, and it is quite funny. I try to describe the problems and hope can get solved. My Macbook can detect wireless networks and connect to the specified wireless network. But, after I start to use Safari to open a website, the connection drops unexpectedly, and a dialog box displaying an error that 'A wireless connection has to be compromised and it will be disabled for a minute' appears, then the connection gone.

The most ridiculuos thing is that when I open my Macbook to browse the Internet, the other users' connection (all of them is Microsoft users) also gets disconnected. However, if I close my Macbook, none of issues like that happens.

Really got frustrated, and I don't know what the reason is.

Hoping solutions from you guys!

Thanks a lot!

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MacBook Pro and iMac keep losing ...

Greetings all, two weeks ago I purchashed a MacBook Pro and iMac and they've worked fine, except for the internet. The wireless randomly goes out, but the airport bars remain. At first I thought it was just pages having trouble loading because of the OS (stupid I know) It's been happening more and more frequently and the only way to solve it is to turn the Airport off and then on which allows the internet to reconnect. My wireless router is connected to an HP an the router is a Dlink 1310 wireless G router. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Installing Airport 802.11n Card for ...

I just bought a Mac Pro, I didn't get the Airport card installed. When I received the computer today I realized I would need one for my network. I called the Apple Store and was told that they had the card in stock and that it was simple to install. Brought the card home and found no instructions included with the card and no support on Apple's site for installation. The Apple Store is far from my home and I am not interested in going back again. I greatly need any advice about installing the card or websites that have up to date installation information. Thank you for any help.

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Airport extreme 5ghz n-only extend with ...

I want to setup a 5 ghz wide channel n-only network and extend it with an airport express via Ethernet. I want to get the maximum speed the wifi is capable of. I have a dual band apebs and a n airport express. I have updated both. First off I noticed that I cannot select n-0nly on the apebs radio. It says a,b, and g or n,b, and g. I selected the latter. I have tried every combination. Even though I get green lights on both, it slows down to much less than with the extreme by itself. I have scoured the Internet. Please help!

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Can't get Airport to connect with my ...

When I connect my DSL modem directly to my MacBook through an Ethernet cable, I have instant internet service with no problem. However, when I disconnect from my computer and connect my AE to my DSL modem, I get 2 error messages on Airport Utility telling me that it can't find my IP and cannot connect to my PPPoE. I have already reset my AE and run through setup again twice and still cannot get the problem solved. I have nothing else connected. Just my DSL cable to my modem and then my DSL to my AE.

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Can't turn Airport on - Snow leopard ...

After installing Snow Leopard I can't turn my Airport card on. I have tried both menubar icon and network selection. Interestingly it is not saying "airport card not installed". I have installed the latest Airport updates.

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AirPort Express likes 10.4 but not 10.5 ...

For some reason my AirPort Express rejects my new computer running 10.5.7 saying it has reached a timeout while trying to connect to the network. The same goes for my iPhone with 3.1. Should I use an earlier release of the AirPort software to configure the Express in a different manner? I have heard the latest versions of the AirPort software can be harsh on the later OS.

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having trouble networking printer via ...

I've got two macs connected to an airport extreme base station. I'd like to connect my hp laserjet 1200 printer to the network so I can print from either computer. Followed instructions on "MacInstruct" website, which promised "Printer set up couldn't be easier!" (Advanced AirPort Extreme Configuration | Macinstruct)

1. Plugged printer into base station.

2. Opened airport utility and let it detect the printer, which it did like a pro. (For good measure, I also clicked boxes to "advertise my printer globally via Bonjour", though I have no idea what that means, and vague fears that everyone in France will now have access to my printer).

3. Went into "Print

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iomega Prestige 1.5 TB USP Hard Drive ...

Just bought a brand new iomega Prestige 1.5 TB USP hard drive and formatted it to HSF (Journaled).

The drive is recognized when it's plugged directly into my Mac Mini running the latest update of Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and I can run Time Machine just fine.

My AirPort Extreme (802.11n) however cannot see the drive when it's plugged directly into the base station. Nothing shows up.

The AEBS is running the latest firmware, and the USB drive has its own external power. It seems that other users have been able to use this drive as an AirDisk without incident. Any advice will be appreciated.

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Seagate FreeAgent Desk 2TB Airport ...

My scenario:

1) New MBP and new Seagate FreeAgent Desk 2TB external drive
2) Formatted drive as MacOS Extended (journaled)
3) Mounted with direct connection (USB) and copied about 100GB to the drive
4) Attached to AE running 7.4.2 over USB
5) AE turns amber and throws an error on the utility--"Disk Needs Repair"
6) Reattach to desktop with no problem. Disk Utility shows no problems.
7) Currently have another LaCie 250GB drive attached to the AE, and it works perfectly.
8) Downgraded to 7.4.1 and 7.4 with no change. Upgraded back to 7.4.2.

I've read about a myriad of problems people are having with USB AirDisks, but can't seem to resolve this. The drive is formatted as HFS , and I really am not in the mood to reformat it to something else for the sake of the AE.

Anyone with a similar setup or any ideas on how to resolve--would be very appreciative in hearing from you. Thanks.

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Airport Extreme Wireless Printing with ...

I have two base stations in my home office: an Airport Express that's connected to the cable modem, and an older Airport Extreme (A1034) that's connected to my printer on the other side of the room. They were networked together so that I could go online or print wirelessly without a problem, until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Now I can go online, and I can print directly from a USB cable to my HP printer, but I can't print wirelessly. The Extreme doesn't seem to show up at all in Airport Utility. Is there a way to get this to work again? Thanks.

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2 Airport Extreme's (1 With LAN ...

Hi There!

I currently have a Airport Extreme "N" Base Station (Non Gigabit) and 3 Airport Express "N" Base Stations.

I am going to be upgrading my Airport Extreme "N" Base Station (Non Gigabit) to the (Gigabit) version. The WAN Port of the Airport Extreme "N" Base Station (Gigabit) version will be connected to my Hi-Speed Modem and "1" LAN port will be connected to a Cisco 16 Port Gigabit (Unmanaged) Switch. The remaining LAN Ports will be left empty.

My personal home computers will connect either wired or wirelessly to the Airport Extreme "N" Base Station (Gigabit) version. I will most likely use the 3 Airport Express "N" Base Stations to Extend and broadcast Air Tunes on this network.

My question is can I connect the Airport Extreme "N" Base Station (Non Gigabit) version to my Switch to create a 2nd Wireless network with access to the Internet Only for guests to use? I want them to access the Internet but not my LAN.

I believe some Router Manufacturers have a feature called AP (Access Point) Isolation or Wireless Client Isolation.

Thanks In Advance!
Marcus

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Airport disk: connection failed ...

Hello,

I currently use an 750gb airport disk for time machine backups at home. Only two computers use it as a backup volume.

I have a powered USB hub with a printer and the harddrive connected to the airport disk.

EVery now and then (lately everyday) the finder in either computer fails to mount the airport disk. I get a "connection failed" error. I can, however, print without any issues.

Any ideas what could be happening? I'm getting tired of resetting the airport extreme EVERY day.

thanks!!

Ps. I just tried and unplugging the USB cable from the airport extreme and immediately plugging it back solved the connection error. It's faster than restarting the airport extreme but still quite annoying to have to unplug the thing every day

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Airport Extreme 7.4.2 software- USB ...

I saw a post regarding my problem and posted to the topic, here.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9762280#9762280

Found what I think is the answer, but not too sure it'll stay working. Be sure to save your config info from the old set up before installing.

My thought was to restore the Factory Settings after the firmware install. Then, set up the AEBS to your network from scratch. The goal is to keep your USB connected drive from going off line. You can see from the above thread that many people have an issue with this software upgrade with a USB drive attached.

So far after doing this, my drive is no longer going off line. It has only been an hour, but it is still on line and I think that it's going strong. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR base station. I think that Apple should fix their instructions at the very least to let people know about this problem.

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USB storage unavailable after 7.4.2 ...

My USB attached 750gb hard drive is no longer listed or available as a shared device from any of my Macs after the 7.4.2 upgrade.

I've downgraded to 7.4.1, which has resolved the problem.

The device has one partition, and I'm using user authentication to control access.

I double-checked the 7.4.2 config, and it looks clean. Has anyone else had this problem?

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Airport Extreme Internet help! ...

I have just purchased the Airport Extreme and have tried to set the unit up. Is there a way I can get internet without having a seperate broadband router plugged into the station? I am with Sky broadband and am using a Netgear router. At the moment I have the telephone line into the Netgear and a Ethernet cable from the netgear into the station. Can I bypass the netgear and use the station only to access the internet? If so how? Unfortunately the manual doesnt clearly state how this is done.

If this isnt possible is there another solution to avoid to many boxes and wires?

Thanks Martin

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User Contributed Tips in the AirPort ...

The following User Contributed Tips are located in the AirPort

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Apple AirPort drivers only support a ...

Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.

The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) specification allows users to specify up to four different WEP keys when configuring a router and for the specification of a "key index" (also sometimes called the "Default Transmit Key") used to specify which of the encryption keys is required to associate with the network. By manually specifying a different key index, an administrator would be able to manually rotate among the WEP keys without having to enter new keys each time.

However, AirPort drivers, in compliance with the Wi-Fi Alliance standard, will only associate with a WEP encrypted network when the router is set to use the key corresponding to a key index of 1.

Configuration of a router to use a key index other than 1 will likely result in either a failure to associate with the chosen network, or association will occur but no IP address will be assigned by the router's DHCP server; the precise failure will be router manufacturer dependent.

Apple AirPort base stations do not provide for the configuration of multiple WEP keys, so this issue does not occur when connecting to a WEP network created by an Apple AirPort device.

As a reminder, WEP has long since been broken due to weak encryption and has been deprecated as a network security protocol. It should never be used except to prevent only the most casual of users from associating with your network; it also should never be used in environments where any data security of any type is desired.

Whenever creating a wireless network, whether with Apple AirPort base stations or with third party routers, the use of WPA or WPA2 encryption in conjunction with a strong passphrase is highly recommended to keep your wireless network secure.

For more information on designing and creating AirPort networks, please see the Apple document Designing AirPort Networks.

Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip or contribute your own? If you have achieved Level 2 status, visit the User Tips Library Contributions forum for more information.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Problem Backing Up With TM To External ...

I bought a Lacie D2 Quadra 1 TB HD to do wireless backups with my Airport Extreme. I partitioned the drive to 2 drives, one is 250 GB and the TM backup drive is 750 GB. I formatted them with Disk Utility using the default Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) format.

All the initial backups went fine (I used ethernet) and for a couple days the wireless updated backups went fine. However, now once every day or two I get a "Delayed" message in the TM preference pane saying that it couldn't connect to the backup volume. I can fix this by restarting the AEBS, but would like to not have to do this every day or two. What can I do to permanently fix this? Any help is much appreciated.

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Disable the WEP encryption on the PC ...

I saw this in another thread that was archived so i could not reply.
I am having the exact problem of connecting my pc laptop to my imac airport internet sharing.
The thread said to disable the WEP encryption on the Pc only.
forgive my stupidity.. but how do i do this ? i am not that familiar with pc's and would like a step by step instruction.
thanks,

J

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Feature request: allow local ethernet ...

I have a Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL modem which I understand Apple recommend. Unfortunately it seems that while it is connected to the WAN interface of the AEBS, and the AEBS is configured to use PPPoE you cannot access the web or telnet servers provided by the Vigor, meaning you're in the dark about the ADSL line status and you cannot monitor or change configuration.

192.168.1.0/24(LAN)
192.168.1.1(AEBS)
192.168.2.1(ADSL modem)

A "hack" suggested by users of other routers is to loopback the WAN interface to the LAN and plug the modem into the LAN. This appears to cause interface flapping on the AEBS (as one would expect) and teardown of PPP every 10-15s so is not a solution. You can talk to the device on 192.168.2.1 as long as you alias yourself an IP on that subnet.

What I would like to see Apple implement would be an option to allow direct ethernet routing of either all non-internet-routable networks or specific networks (in my case 192.168.2.0/24) over the WAN interface.

Eg.

192.168.1.10-

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Guest network ...

Great feature, but can't get it to work despite a lot of manual reading and forum searching. Here is my setup:

Airport Extreme is connected to Ethernet network, assigned a static IP address and using DHCP to distribute IP addresses to laptops connecting to the Ethernet network through it.

If I choose the option under the Internet tab/Connection Sharing to "Distribute a range of IP Addresses" everything works great as far as the laptops accessing the network and Internet, but the Guest Network tab and option disappear.

If I choose "Share a public IP address", the Guest Network tab and option becomes available, but I get an error message that DHCP range conflicts with the WAN IP address. The only fix I can figure out is to change the DHCP range to a different subnet. But then the laptops can only access the Internet, not the Ethernet network.

I hope to end up with 1 Airport Extreme distributing IP addresses to our laptops that enable them to be on our network and distributing IP addresses of a different subnet to the Guest network laptops enabling them to access only the Internet. Then when working as described, having other Airport Extremes being in Bridge Mode to distribute this setup seamlessly throughout our campus.

Am I wishing for too much or just missing something?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Kyle

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Cannot set 5ghz only mode ...

Hi I got the latest AE model and since all the computers in the house support 802.11n I want to deactivate the b/g mode. Sadly there is no such option in the dropdown menu.. Even clicking it with option pressed still I see no such option, am I doing something wrong here?

Many thanks!

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Airport Extreme and BT Home Hub (V2 ...

I want an AEBS to improve my existing wireless network. Having two networks would be ideal with an AEBS. I have been a BT Broadband customer for nearly 7 years and my contract is due to expire in October. I am happy to stay with BT if I can use an AEBS with the home hub (just as a modem). If this is not an option, I will be looking for a new ISP - probably O2 at the moment.

Any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated.

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Just got a new n router and now my ...

ever since i got the belkin n router attached to my old motorolla surf board modem my 3.06ghz 24inch imac seems to not want to stay connected. any one know what could be wrong? modem too old? router too good? year old kick *** imac not good enough to keep up?

help please

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Each Airport device asking for ...

My network consists of 2 AEBS and 2 AEs. There is no network password at the moment.
I just opened up Airport Utility to check a setting and when I double clicked on my main AEBS it asked for a password. I checked every device. They are all asking for a password which doesn't exist, before allowing me to even see the configurations. This happened before with an AE that I was trying to reset, the only way around it was to hook the AE to my mac with ethernet. I really don't want to have to do that every time I want to make a change to my network. Anyone know what's going on here? The same thing happens if I click on Manual Setup or Continue.

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Old Airport Extreme Base Station ...

I recently upgraded my Airport Extreme Base Station to a new 2 channel unit. During installation I first removed the original base station, then set up the new unit. During setup, a prompt appeared asking me if I wanted to use my old configuration. After indicating "yes", the unit was set up quickly.

However, when I now open Airport Utility it shows 3 Airport Units (2 Airport Extreme and 1 Airport Express). How do I remove the original Airport Extreme unit from the list? When I highlight the unit, then select "manual", a prompt appears saying "an error occurred when reading the configuration", which is what I would expect since the unit no longer exists. Yet, there seems to be no way within Airport Utility to remove the unit.

Here's what the current list looks like with the old unit listed first:

Appreciate any feedback. Thanks

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Wifi connection issues post OS 10.1 and ...

I'm really not sure where to post this and will take any suggestions.

In one day I installed the following updates to my MacPro and iPhone : OS 10.6.1 and iPhone 3.01. Both alleged to fix wifi connectivity issues. I now can no longer maintain a connection to either the computer or the iPhone via wifi.

We have five computers and 3 iphones in this household and only the updated computer and iPhone have been affected. The Airport Extreme (n-dual band) works fine with ALL the devices that were not updated. Previously, both the MacPro and iPhone connected without a hitch. When connected by ethernet, the MacPro is able to connect to the Airport. The phone can connect to other networks. NO changes whatsoever were made to the Airport, however, I have restarted it repeatedly to see if that would correct the issue.

The network is secured with WPA/WPA2 Personal and have a dual network running - both a 5Mhz and a 2.9 Mhz. It does NOT have a guest network established.

According to the Airport Log, "WPA handshake failed with STA likely due to bad password from client". The password used sure matches what's used on the other computers/iphones.

Finally, for the record, I threw out all my preferences relating to wifi on the MacPro, restarted it and also performed a hard reboot on the iPhone.

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MacBook Pro will not connect to Airport ...

My new late-2008 MacBook Pro will not connect wirelessly to one of my Airport Extreme routers (single-band model). Both my MB Air and my iPhone find and connect automatically without problem. The MB Pro continually asks for a password (although the correct password is stored in the keychain) and, when the password is re-entered, eventually returns a "connection time out" message. Currently I am making do with a direct ethernet connection but would be appreciate any pointers of things to try.

Note that the firmware of the router was updated recently and the MBPro has all the latest updates.

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Airport extreme 5ghz n-only extend with ...

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Internet connection speed problem ...

I don't think it's the problem of airport. Although I have problem with internet speed. When I use my macbook pro home, I use time capsule and speed is fine. But when I use it at work with some verizon wireless router, I have problem with connection speed. Other peoples computer works fine(all pc), only my macbook pro has real slow connection. Same site, take 5 or even 10 times slower. I don't know why this happen. Does anyone know why I have this problem? Thank you so much for your time.

Peace

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Draytek Vigor 120 and Airport Extreme ...

Does anyone successfully use the Draytek Vigor 120 modem (UK) and Airport Extreme together?

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Adding Samsung BluRay Player to Airport ...

Has anyone worked through this?

I just bought an Airport Extreme and had few problems setting it up. When I tried to connect with my Samsung Blu-ray player it does not connect although it does get as far as recognizing the Airport Extreme network (both the main network and guest network). I write in the password and it does not connect.

Any ideas?

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Airport connection drops and unable to ...

Hy!
We have 2 Macs, but this Problem appears just on a 1 Year Old iMac.
I connect to the Internet via Airport to a Time Capsule.
Under Leopard there where also Conection drops(about all 60 Min.) but i could deactivate Airport via the Symbol on the Desktop and finaly after reactivation everything went fine for another hour.

Since i updatet to Snowleopard 10.6.1 the connection drops every 1-2 Minutes. And strange is i cant deactivate the Airportconnection.......

I live now with a long Ethernetcable but this would be the first Problem with a Mac without a solution.Since my Problems with Macs where ever with Airport

It must be on the iMacs Side because with ibook and iphones everything is fine.

when the proble ocours the Airport Utility says ther ist a connection to the Time Capsule but not to the ISP. But in the same time i can go to Internet with other devices.....

Thank you for your Help!!!

iMac is a 8.1 Core2Duo 3.04 Ghz
Time Capsule is 1GB first Gen.

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Understanding dual band setup (or not) ...

Maybe I'm being stupid, but having easily grasped the concept of the new Dual Band AEBS, I'm finding the implementation less than intuitive. Hope someone can answer some questions.

When selecting the Radio Mode for this AEBS in AirPort Utility, am I correct in thinking that before the dash is the 5 GHz and after the dash is for the 2.4 GHz band? If so, then it's a nice concise way to specify it, but WHERE DOES IT TELL YOU THIS? I first saw this and was more than a little confused. The latest Designing AirPort Networks etc manual omits to make ANY mention of this latest AEBS and I can only guess that my assumption is correct.

Also, where does it tell you that the name (SSID) you enter on the main Wireless tab/page is for the 2.4 GHz band (or presumably both if you don't opt for a different name) and you must choose Wireless Options to find that you can specify a different name for the 5 GHz band?

I have to say that wonderful though it is to be able to operate on dual bands simultaneously, the interface in AirPort Utility leaves a lot to be desired and the documentation is er, well, NON existent.

Unless someone can point out where this is all documented so I didn't need to be fumbling about guessing for so long.

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Can't change Airport Extreme Stations ...

Situation:

I've got 2 Airport Extreme in my house because of the thick walls. Each AP Extreme works fine. I can change the Airport directly by selecting it on the top Button with my MacBook. But using my MBP (2,8 500 GB, the new big one) with Snow Leo it is not possible to change the Airport Extreme Station nor switching it OFF at the MBP.

Question: Do we have a bug on SL because I can not switch off the Airport Card? I reinstalled Snow Leo but it does not help. It is also not possible in system preferences (Network) to switch off the MBP's Airport Card.

Any idea? Is the hardware damaged? Is it a software problem? How to check and solve?

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How to have some fixed IPs with port ...

I'm trying to hook my iMac (G5, 10.4) up to my Airport Extreme (ethernet) with the mac having a static IP address and ports forwarded to it. I have other computers (my work laptop) connected via ethernet or sometimes wireless and other wireless computers, or my Tivo box, where I would prefer the IP to be assigned by the Extreme.

I see tutorials out there but they are with really old Airport Utility/Admin versions and don't really match up with what I see with the latest Utility versions.

I'm wondering if someone could post a set of instructions to make this work? I'd love to know what the settings are on the Airport Extreme (Airport Utility) as well as the iMac's network settings, and if I need to do anything special to the others that I want to get their IP addresses dynamically.

Not that I think it makes a difference, but the Extreme is also extended by an Airport Express.

I'm probably going to reset the Extreme and Express (been messing around trying to do this and they're a little messed up now) so you can assume I'm starting from scratch.

I'm not really smart about all the network settings, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Airport Bars Show, but No Internet or ...

I'm having a problem where after some period of use (varies from 15 minutes to an hour) my MacBook Pro is showing all Airport "bars," but I'm unable to access the Web or other Airport services.

If I go to System Preferences --

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Can't access Airport Extreme Setup ...

I have a problem accessing the airport extreme setup. The airport utility can find the device but when I try to access setup I get a message stating, "An error occured while trying to access the wireless device. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again."

I can access the network through all the computers connected to the Airport. Resetting the device doesn't work.

I was changing network passwords when the problem occurred. The new password works for all devices on the network but I'm now locked out of accessing the setup.

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Airport Extreme signal strength question ...

hello,

I just recently set up my new airport extreme base station, but have been having problems. I have a 12" PowerBook G4 and my girlfriend has a MacBook that has an 'N' wireless card, mine has a 'G.' While sitting in the same room, she can connect to the wireless with no problems, while the signal strength for me fluctuates a bit and sometimes drops out complete (or when I open my computer I cant even connect). I changed the 'G' channel to 2 instead of automatic and that seems to help a bit, but I am no more than 30 (probably less) feet away when it does this, in clear site of the router. I never had a problem with my old D-link. When I open internet connection, I only have about 4 bars out of 15. Did I set something up wrong? Is it the router? My computer? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Matt

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Time Capsule gets valid iP address, but ...

I recently bought an dual band airport extreme base station so that I could run dual N and b/g compatible wifi networks. Since I already have a single band Time Capsule, I figured I could use that in bridge mode to extend the network. Great in theory, but in practice I can't make it work.
Even though I copied my settings directly from the Time Capsule, which always did and continues to get a valid IP address from the Comcast Cable modem ethernet, the dual band Airport Extreme can not create a wifi network that gets a valid IP address. What could possibly be different about the AE from the single band Time Capsule that would make one work and the other not work?
Any ideas?

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Changing from No Security to WPA2 ...

My network is setup with no security. I want to change to WPA2. Can I just go in and change the Security setting on my main AEBS then update each of the devices thru the Airport Utility or is changing that first AEBS going to knock every other device offline so I will have to go gather them all up, bring them within range of the Main AEBS, reset them and setup my whole network again?

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Can't get extreme to work regardless of ...

connecting directly to the modem works fine but extreme won't. whether the light is green, amber, or flashing amber, i get the same result.

i had to call charter to manually reset the ip on my modem as all internet went out and since then this has been the case.

before i could plug in through the extreme when at my desk and it knew to stop using wireless but now it doesn't. it also shows full signal strength on my toolbar.

thoughts?

macbook and extreme bought in oct.08

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New MacBook Pro, Time Machine Backup ...

Just bought a new Macbook Pro over the weekend, and over night I tried a Time Machine Backup via ethernet cable to an empty partition on a hard drive attached to my Airport Extreme. In the morning, I checked and everything had gone smoothly without error messages. My hard drive has 160 GB of data. When I checked the "sparse bundle" backup file I saw it was several gigs less (I can't remember how much less, but right now, a few more backups later it is up to 155 GB).

I checked the system log in Console, and saw several messages of the following variety: "backing up 15 GB out of 135 GB," "backing up 30GB out of 135 GB." I can't recall the exact language, and I can no longer find entries from yesterday on the log, but the just was that the computer seemed from the beginning to attempt to backup only 135 GB rather than the full 160. At the end, there was a message the backup had successfully completed.

I haven't excluded any files from that backup so that's not the issue either.

I called tech support, and they helped for a while until they told me Air Disk is not supported for Time Machine. I was told however that the sparse bundle is a compressed file.

Any insights into this? Is this how my backup is supposed to look or is something going wrong?

Many thanks in advance!

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Use existing Time Machine USB drive ...

I recently purchased an AEBS. I had an external disk I was using for Time Machine backups before I got the AEBS. I connected the disk to the AEBS and selected it as the backup disk under Time Machine. It started up but its trying to backup my whole drive instead of just the changed files.

Is there a way to tell Time Machine to continue using the disk for incremental updates?

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WD Passport software removal ...

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won't connect to a network using ...

I tried everything even reseting the airport express but it just says that it is connected to my wireless connection, and if i try to change the settings (because i bought the airport extreme for boosting my internet signal) it presents an error (6753) when i try to change the settings!!! help!

Message was edited by: princesa4... sorry i meant airport express

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Do LAN ports on AirPort Extreme ...

YOU can help me, I hope. I have tried to solve the problem for a whole day already.

I have a D-link DIR-825 and an AirPort Extreme (Gigabit). I set my DIR-825 to work like a normal router. However, I would like to have my AirPort working like an Ethernet converter/Wireless Bridge.

From my research, it seems to me that WDS would not be possible with a non-apple router. "Client mode" is only offered in AirPort Express. The only opinion left is "Extend a wireless network" mode.

It works. AirPort gets an IP from my router, but the devices on LAN ports don't get any IPs.

I wonder if it supposes to work like that, or did I do something wrong?

Thank you for reading this post, even though you might not know the answer. But if you know, please help to solve this mystery for me. Thanks in advance.

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