Airport Express and Airport Extreme issues

I am trying to extend my wireless network to a detached garage by using and Express wired directly with the Cat5 wire but the Extreme does not recognize it and I am not able to "extend" my network. Any suggestions?

I cant get past the constant Amber blinking light. Airport Utility picks it up but I cannot configure it even though I have it plugged in directly to the Base via ethernet. My wifi is working in the house and the Express has been reset multiple times to see if it picks up the network automatically but fails to do so. If I could get past the blinking amber light I would have some progress. I once called support and I was told to "rescan" about twenty to thirty times to see if it would connect and it has failed using this method as well.

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I recently got an Airport Extreme, which allows me to mount a disk off of it. So, I figure I'll mount my USB Time Machine disk there so Time Machine backs up hourly.
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If the AirPort Extreme that you are asking about looks like the product in this Apple information sheet........
http://www.apple.com/airport-extreme/
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I've had that problem on my macbook running 10.5.8 for a few years. Sometimes it's worse than others. No other computer in my house has this problem.

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I am having the hardest time getting my new Airport Extreme to work properly. Or at least me to work properly with it. It was working initially then I configured it the way I like it and started having issues. I reset it to default settings and my computers connect to it and through it. If I go through the Airport setup wizard (give it a network name, WPA2 Personal with key) then my computers can still connect to it, or so they say and so the Airport "Wireless Clients" list says, but they cannot connect to any other computers on the network nor can they connect to the Internet.
The logs are repeating this over and over:
Feb 20 22:13:37 Severity:5 Deauthenticating with station 00:16:cb:xx:xx:xx (reserved 2).
Feb 20 22:13:37 Severity:5 Disassociated with station 00:16:cb:xx:xx:xx
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Oh, when I plug into the Airport extreme via ethernet cable, I can access the Internet and other computers just fine. If I unplug the ethernet and just use wireless I can attach to the Airport but no throughput.
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Have you tried it with WPA disabled?
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Hi I'm new to these discussion boards but I was wondering if someone could possibly help me with some airport issues I've been having. My roommate and I both share use an Extreme with Comcast and as far as internet goes everything is great. However outside of that it has issues with my different devices. My main complaint that I would want to be fixed the most is the issue of my PS3. When I hook up my Playstation to the base station it recognizes everything fine and goes through all the steps without an issue. When I go to test the connect though it fails when it tries to connect to the Playstation Network. I know this is an issue with the Airport cause I have the same setup at another house with a different router and have no problems. The reason I find it odd though is because it will randomly work at the most random of times. If someone could help me that would be wonderful since I've been having to live with this for almost 10 months now

+I typically do adjustments to the configuration file via wireless. Do you recommend that I only use a hard-wire connection to adjust the configuration file?+
My preference is to do any configuration changes this way and I advise users to use this method, but if wireless works reliably, there's no reason to change.
Have you checked the disk for errors using Disk Utility?
Are you using a powered USB hub with the drive? The USB port on the AirPort Extreme does not supply enough current for a number of hard drives.
FAT 32 can't handle single file sizes larger than 4 GB, so that may be something to check as well.
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You can access the AirPort Disk via normal file-sharing connection options, such as selecting the server from any Finder window’s sidebar in the Shared section. AirPort Disk uses two standard methods: AFP (for Macs) and Samba (for Windows or Linux).
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So I replaced a 54G Belkin wireless router this weekend with a new Airport Extreme thinking I would like to be able to get N speed (N-capable MacBookPro and MacBook in the house) and the benefit of connecting a hard disk.
Unfortunately, both the speed and range of the new Airport Extreme are horrible. The Belkin router performed at better speed and range and I'm close to just reinstalling it.
I've read everything on this site related to slowness but no change in set up has successfully produced better results. Any ideas?
Dragging in Chicago...

Well, the "speed" really depends on your ISP, it really does not matter if you have a G or N if your ISP has a cap on your connection G & N or even 1Gbps will have no impact on your speed.
It also depends if you are in a house or apartment. If you are in a rural area you will get better results than a heavy traffic downtown apartment building. Sometimes the AEBS will work best being in the top floor of the house, other times it will work best being in the basement of the house (mine is setup in the basement and it works just fantastic.)
Microwaves, wireless phone systems, and other wireless devices such as a cell phone tower will have a great impact in your wireless network.
Try moving the AEBS around the house you will find some spots to provide better coverage than others...
P.s.- have you tried to set the "N" to 5Ghz and to interference robustness??
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Macbook hangs during login - airport extreme issue?

My new macbook hangs during startup. I have an airport extreme 802.11n version base station. My macbook is configured to talk to this base station.
If I power down the airport extreme, login works just fine. If I power on the airport, login hangs.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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It is connected through wireless. I have installed the 802.11n drivers on it as well, doesn't help.

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Bonjour only allows the print function to work when a multi-function printer is connected to the USB port on the AirPorts.
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