Comments on: New Airport Extreme/Express update today

By: Airport Shuttle Service

Airport Shuttle Service — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:56:04 +0000

David,

Nice Post:
new to mac, I have tried everything I can think of, and I can’t get things to work. I am using the 5.2.4 airport utility.

let me know what you did to get things working?
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By: Paige

Paige — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:03:10 +0000

I was finally able to connect my Airport Express to my Airport extreme. (At first I thought that the verizon fios modem/router i was using was complicating things.)
For the security on the Extreme you have to select “WPA/WPA2 personal”
The other WPA options won’t work.

By: MARTY

MARTY — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:38:19 +0000

I purchased an Airport Extreme for the sole purpose of allowing me to print wirelessly. I do want to share an internet connection. I do not want to share the printer with my neighbors either. Out of the box, my printer worked but the amber light blinking is disturbing. Also I can see my airport extreme is broadcasting my open network. When I go and configure WAP2, the Airport goes away and doesn’t come back till I stick it in the eye with a paperclip.

By: David Scott

David Scott — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:40:45 +0000

Picked up a “Time Capsule” the other day with the thought of either replacing my Extreme or using one as an extension of the other. As per my earlier note (see above), this proved to be an all-morning project. Bottom line is that after many tries, I got the Capsule to work as my primary Airport base station but my new network doesn’t “see” either the old Extreme nor any of my Expresses. Turns out, though, that the Capsule is strong enough to service all the computers in my house. Still, the “new” Capsule doesn’t seem to like the “old” Extreme and Expresses; i.e., they’re invisible. Again, networking is the most frustration thing I ever encounter with my Macs. When it’s properly set up, it performs flawlessly but getting things set up, now there’s the rub…

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:08:53 +0000

It sounds like you have a faulty unit to me. If you can’t connect through wireless then it makes me wonder if it works. Can you see it when you look at all the available wireless networks? If you can’t see it there, then there is no way the airport utilities will see it.

By: Bernice B. Bernardino

Bernice B. Bernardino — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:32:14 +0000

by the way, i’ve done the reset procedure a gazillion times

By: Bernice B. Bernardino

Bernice B. Bernardino — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:28:09 +0000

Hi! Help please! Am a fairly new Mac user and have not encountered problems until now when i got my airport express. My Airport express is green and works fine. But i could not set it up because my airport utilities can’t find it!

I already placed the gadget about 6 inches from my laptop and my line works fine. (tried attaching the wire directly to my computer and it works all the time)

What can i do to make my macbook pro recognize my airport express? Im am starting to feel sorry i bought the airport express :( My friend who swears by its wonders said it did;t take her 5 min to get it up and running. Ive been at it for 3 days to no avail! Thank you so much!

By: Aniya

Aniya — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:07:43 +0000

ok folks I seem to have put my finger on the button, although every now and then my airport express disappears from airport utility, I just unplug/plug it in again and that seems to do the trick and then it goes for weeks and I get a good signal everywhere, I am now awaiting the MBA on order so hope that doesn’t play up…to be continued

By: boxer

boxer — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:35:05 +0000

don’t know why but try as i might, i can’t get the airport utility to discover my extreme or express any more. the extreme is plugged into the internet and i can access the net, but i can’t get into configure either the extreme or the express. i keeps on saying that it can’t discover them. Any tip please. i have tried reseting but to no avail

By: Aniya

Aniya — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:10:43 +0000

Hi Chad, thanks for your reply, yes all all settings and addresses correct, yesterday I updated to leopard, I have a better connection, but what I notice with both leopard and tiger is the fact that the express has to be situated near the main base station or else it’s lost, I understood that it was to be placed near to where the the computer was, (ie I move around my house with my MB to where the signal is not as strong, the whole idea of getting the AE in the first place) but once I move the AE further away it’s a gonna.
Another thing that happens when I move further away is I can see AE but no main airport extreme n base station, so I assume the 2 airports don’t speak to each other, I have to take my MB back to where the base station is to pick back up the signal, frustrating!!! I’ll see how it goes with leopard although the 2 airports are 4 metres away from each other…