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…

By: Chad Novak

Chad Novak — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:31:42 +0000

Hey Aniya, I have had a few issues with this, but there are a few things you should check to get it working. First, make sure you have the correct mac addresses registered on the extreme, and the express, make sure you are using the same channel, and if you are using WPA (which you should be for security) make sure the ssid’s are the same, and of course the passwords. You may have all of this set up correctly, but just double check to make sure.

I actually had the express disappear after I had things working for about a week. The led was flashing amber. I had to unplug the express, not the extreme to get things synced up again.

Believe me I found this to be ridiculously frustrating…but I did manage to get it working, and it does work well.

By: Aniya

Aniya — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:52:07 +0000

I also am having problems with the addition of the express to my main base station airport extreme n, it all set up perfectly and I was quite surprised, but after that the express just disappears from my network and I have no connection, the whole thing is driving me mad, after thinking I would be extending my network range only to find I’ve shortened not only that but my nerves….help!!!

By: David Scott

David Scott — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:18:56 +0000

Generally speaking, I never have problems setting up Mac stuff but, for some reason, Airport devices represent a challenge to me. Usually the primary base station is a breeze. It’s the addition of Airport Expresses that seems to be contrary. Glad you’re up and running.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:04 +0000

David,

Thank you for your response on this. I did manage to fight with things over the weekend, and now it is working fine. I was able to activate the WDS, and then I had to ensure the channels were the same, and of course make sure both devices had the same ssid. I am using WPA security, and things are working really well now. The problem I was experiencing was with me, and my lack of knowledge on how to set things up. It was a little frustrating since everything else with Mac just seems to be so easy to set up, and configure.

By: David Scott

David Scott — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:49:09 +0000

Chad – It was a little hit-or-miss but using the Airport utility, one step and a time, I was able to get the new Airport Extreme and one Express working well. Frankly, I quit trying to get the other two Express devices up since they simply wouldn’t cooperate. What, specifically, are you trying to do?

By: Chad Novak

Chad Novak — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:54:11 +0000

David,

I am new to mac, and I do not even see the wds option. I have tried everything I can think of, and I can’t get things to work. I am using the 5.2.2 airport utility.

Can you tell me what you did to get things working?