Adding a PC to my Airport network - help!

Can any one tell me how to add my new Sony Vaio laptop PC to my Airport office network (I needed to have a PC for checking web sites I create) - it works fine with ethernet but i was to use it around the house! Do i i need to add the MAC address as i did with my iphone? - and where would i find it?
Many thanks!

Hi Duane,
thanks for the reply....I have done that but as im not a pro PC user I am not sure what to do now to get the PC on my Airport network!

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You may find the guides here useful:
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http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1011.html
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http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1010.html
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Hello, I wonder if anyone out there can help. I have got a problem with my airport network that doesn't make any sense and I havent seen another post with the same problems.
I have an imac G5 with 10.3.9. I have a wireless network set up, with an airport wireless card and two ax boxes (the second was bought later to boost the signal when we moved the Mac to another room). Initially it set up fine and worked for about 8-9 months. Then I noticed the second ax started behaving strangely. It would occasionally turn from 'green' to flashing amber for no reason - often after it had been on for a while. Turning it off and on did not change anything. Usually though it would work again the next day after being off all night. This continued to happen randomly until a couple of months later it switched to flashing amber continually.
I thought it had 'lost' the network so I tried using the airport set up assistant to reconnect it. However the set up assistant does not recognise ax number 2 any more, so I am not able to reconnect it. At the moment I am running off a faint signal from ax number 1.
I also tried setting up a completely new network from scratch. Again the new network is fine from the base ax bx but ax number 2 is still not recognised by my mac.
I also have a wireless printer connected to the network which does not work any more. This is where things became more confusing. The printer needs a boost signal to operate so when my booster ax went wrong the printer would not work. So I moved the printer and mac nearer ax number 1 to ensure it would pick up the network. However it still didn't work. So I attempted to set up the printer as wireless again, thinking it had become 'disconnected' somehow. However during installation you have to select the network to connect to. The computer would not pick up the apple network at all from ax number 1, yet it easily recognises our neighbours network from the flat above us. Strangely when I tried turning on the faulty ax box, the printer set up program picked up the faulty ax and not the original ax. But obviously I can't use the printer from the faulty ax box because it doesnt connect to the rest of the network.
So now I am confused. I am not sure what has gone wrong and what I need to replace. Originally I thought it was the second ax box that had gone wrong. But as the printer software can identify the second ax box I am not sure that this is the problem. Could there be something wrong with the airport card? I have checked that the card is properly connected and there is nothing visibly wrong there.
If anyone can help - please reply as I am going crazy here with things not working and don't know what to do next.
Thanks, Wrenster

Hello Wrenster,
I understand why you are confused, I was too while reading your post. However I have the solution for you. I believe you are a victim of environmental interference. Someone in your neighborhood just moved in with a another network, someone had a baby and is using a baby monitor, or maybe a local ham radio operator just got his license. Who knows!
This is what you need to do. Get all the devices in the same room and preform a hard restart on each one them per http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044. Remember to preform a hard restart! After performing a hard restart on all three devices check the wireless networks available. You should have 3 ( one main and 2 airport expresses) ( or two depending on how many airports you own, I am not sure from your post). If you don't have the correct amount you may a bum base station and it may need to be replaced. But if you have the correct number of wireless networks ( Apple network XXXXXXX), use the airport admin utility ( inside of the utility folder ) to locate the main base station and configure it.
You will know when you are on the configuration page when you can read Name, Contact and Location.
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Second click on the change wireless security and set the security to WEP 128 BIT and make your password. Once you have configured a successful password be sure to click on the lock on the main configuration page ( the one with password under it) to get the HEX password for your PC friends.
Third ( we are almost done ) Select the WDS tab at the top and enable this base station as a main station. Select allow other wireless client on this base station as well. Now on that empty list box below click the plus sign to the right to add other base stations to this WDS network. From here you should be able to select the other 2 base station that we have not configure yet ( but preformed a hard restart on). After you have added them ( be sure the check box for auto configure is selected) they should read in the list that was empty on the WDS page.
Now update this should start the update process and may take 5-10 mins, it should provide a summery pop-up when with each station is done.
( Also you may get a message that there is update for the base station, please preform the updates for the selected base stations)
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Greetings!
I know there are similar posts on this topic, but I can't seem to find a solution so I'll just ask again!
Equipment: AirPort Extreme and two Airport Expresses (all are N)
We live in a long house and the AirPort Extreme sits on one end with the cable modem and I'd like to place two AirPort Expresses in the middle and other end of the house so we can get wireless.
I've tried WDS and extended and I can't get them to configure! What can I do? I'm out of ideas and time spend trying to set up an extender!!
Help!!
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Ok, this can be done with a static WDS.
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Static WDS Setup
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o Click WDS and then choose “WDS main” from the WDS Mode pop-up menu.
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o Click Update to send the new settings to the base stations in the WDS.
Remote Base Station Setup - AXn#2
o Open AirPort Utility.
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Problems joining airport network... PLEASE HELP!

Hello...
I´m having problems joining an airport network, i realy hope u guys can help me... I tried everything...
I turn on my airport card and the airport finds the network i want to join... No problems with that...
I enter the password (i´m sure it´s the correct one) and it keeps saying "there was an error joining the airport network "Blablabla".
The type of security is WEP Passord...
Thank u for your attencion...
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Ivoo wrote:
The type of security is WEP Passord...
One of the problems with WEP is that the actual standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
In order to make things easier for people, vendors use certain algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords (or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling people to use simple memorable WEP password rather than lengthy HEX keys.
The problem is that different vendors use different algorithms to generate the HEX key and therefore a ASCII password on an AEBS will be hashed differently on a Netgear client and vice versa.
One thing is a 13 character 128 bit WEP password will be hashed by all vendors in the same way (if you use 40bit WEP then a 5 character password is required).
Though sometimes not even that works and the HEX key must be used regardless.
AirPort: Joining an encrypted wireless network
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
Choosing a password for networks that use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058
WEP is considered insecure, you should think about switching to WPA.
iFelix

Some help needed setting up NAT in 2x Airport network

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how to get port forwarding to work on my network.
DSL comes into the house downstairs and from the DSL modem it goes right into an Airport Express. I am on the second floor though, and the Airport's signal isn't strong enough for my G5's antenna to pick up. That's why I have another Airport Express on the first floor, expanding the Airport network.
The two Airport Express units are in a "WDS".
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How do I do this? The Airport's have IP's in the 10.0.0.x range. The G5 is in the 192.168.2.x range because it also connects to a wired router. Do they both have to be in the same range?
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I managed to get it working. I thought port fowarding was greyed out on both Airport units, but it only was on the relay one. Not on the main one. Also, I first accidently forwarded port 21 to the G5's wired IP address instead of its wireless (Airport) IP address.
The setup is exactly as you described (your 2nd paragraph). The wired router is only there to connect 4 PC's to the G5. They don't need internet (I don't want Windows to have internet), they just need just data transfer with the G5 (MIDI data and VNC control). It's on a different IP range than the Airport network.
One issue I am still experiencing is that when Airport is turned on on the G5, the router network (the 4 PC's) don't appear in Finder > Network. When I turn off Airport, the router network appears within a second. So there is a file sharing conflict or something there.
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So can I use either another AEBS or an Airport Express (AE) connected to the Rev B ethernet port to connect to my AirPort network. How would I have to configure the AEBS/AE to work with 9.1?

Kenichi Watanabe wrote:
I responded to you identical post in the Mac OS 9 area.
Found it. I'd posted to that area but then thought that there'd be more Bondi iMac users in this area.

Adding iMac Bondi Rev B to AirPort network

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Kenichi Watanabe wrote:
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You could connect the Bondi iMac directly to the Airport base station by Ethernet (wired), but you would have considered that already, so I'm assuming the two are not conveniently located to allow a wired connection.
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The other option is to get a USB wireless adapter. Unfortunately, I think you mentioned that your Bondi iMac has Mac OS 9.1, so that would not work. I don't know of any USB wireless adapters with Mac OS 9 drivers. There are, however, Ethernet wireless adapters. They would work similarly to the Airport Express, but may be less expensive. Mac OS 9 on the Bondi should see it as a regular wired connection. I haven't tried any (other than the Airport Express) so can't give a recommendation for brand and model.
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I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 Laptop.
I want to add it to an existing Airport network.
1. What is the required hardware to be installed and configured on the Thinkpad.
2. What is the required software to be installed and configured on the Thinkpad.
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IBM Thinkpad T30 Windows XP Pro WIndows XP Pro SP2

1. What is the required hardware to be installed and configured on the Thinkpad.
Depending on the exact model of the Thinkpad T30, a variety of 802.11b wireless Mini PCI Adapters were pre-installed. In addition, all T30 models support Type III or Type II PC Cards. (ref: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid= MIGR-42308)
If your T30 did not come with an internal Mini PCI adapter, most wireless PC cards, that support 802.11b/g, should work with the AirPort base stations.
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How to configure the PC to do so will be based on the exact operating system of your new device.
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Greetings:
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2 Airport Extremes in a WDS network
4 Airport Express(s) - 1 as a printer interface, 3 as Airtunes devices
Various ethernet devices connected to the base station routers
All working perfectly - then I get this problem.
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This cannot be the final answer the Panasonic BL-C131A camera was working fine with a cheap wireless router that I had before the Airport Extreme. I cannot even get it to talk to AE router.
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