I need help setting up ipad 2 with airport express??

I am having trouble getting my ipad to play music wirelessly, but my macbook is fine. Is there something I need to do on my ipad to get it to work?

Please check out the following Apple Support articles on how to stream iTunes from your IPad:
Using AirPlay
Wi-Fi base stations: How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes

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I have a airport express that exends my network and is connected by an ethernet cable to the wireless router. they are on opposite sides of the house from each other. every other device i own has full bars wifi anywhere in the house. but the ipad only seems to find the signal from the AE.
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AFA the router, some routers don't like iOS devices and just won't connect. When you go to Settings/Wi-Fi does the iPad see the router's network? If the iPad sees the router network, try configuring a connection by hand.
Tap Other... and write the name of the router's network. Tap Security and select the type of security the router's network employs. Return to the previous pane and enter the password. Tap Join. If you can make the conection the iPad should remember this network in the future. Turn on Ask to Join Networks and hopefully when the iPad looses the AE signal in the future it will then ask you if you want to join the router's network.

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I've got the green light on the express.. i can see it fine in airport utility. I've told iTunes to play thru the express. But the express does not seem to realize it has speakers attached to it. All i did was plug the speakers into teh express. I notice that in airport utility, it wants to know the name of the speakers. Well, near as i can tell, the speakers don't have a name, and there are very few directions that came with them, so i am lost.
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Jo Dorais wrote:
the express does not seem to realize it has speakers attached to it. All i did was plug the speakers into the express. I notice that in airport utility, it wants to know the name of the speakers.
You can use AirPort Utility (in the Music panel) to give the speakers a name. That can be useful if you have more than one set of speakers attached to separate AirPort Express units so that you can distinguish between them in iTunes.
I can't find a way to name the speakers.. it just asks me what the name of the speakers i want to use is.
How do i tell the express that it's got speakers attached so that i can play music thru them wirelessly?
Can you see the speakers in iTunes? One thing you may have forgotten to do is to check "Enable AirTunes" in that same Music panel of AirPort Utility.
I had that done, but it didn't matter. I could see the express in iTunes, but not the speakers specifically.
However, i have gotten it all to work by starting over. I ran across a tutorial here, telling me to plug the speakers into the express and THEN plugging the express into the wall, and then setting the express up with airport utility. So i restored it to default factory settings at that point and started from scratch. Voila! I still don't see names for the speakers, but they play music, so i'm not arguing.
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Here's the question: How do I name them the same so that the devices will switch effortlessly to the stongest signal? I understand it involves switching the "channels" but don't know how to do it right now. Currently, everything works, so I don't want to mess it up tinkering. Another caveat- there are several other wireless networks from neighbors houses that I can "see". I jsut downloaded a program called iStumbler that shows the channels, but not sure what to do with that info.
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