AirPort Express for iPhone

Hi users, i am considering the purchase of an AirPort Express Base Station only for having a wifi connection for my iPhone around the house. My iMac is wired to the modem and i don't really need to move it around. Would this be the best solution for getting a good wifi connection for my phone?
Regards, J.

You could just set up your iMac to act as a wireless access point that shares its internet connection since the iMac is wired directly to the modem.
This might help is setting up your iMac to share it's internet connection if you're running 10.6:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8156.html
Good luck!

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AirPort Express for iPhone Internet connection

I recently had cable installed in our shop for phone and Internet usage. We haven’t yet purchased a computer for the location, but I do have an AirPort Express that I purchased for use in my home (but have not set up at home yet). I also have an iPhone. Is there a way to use the AirPort Express with the cable Internet connection in our shop so that I can go online with my iPhone? (just FYI, I cannot connect with the internet at our shop with my iPhone over the AT&T network as there is no signal available in the area).
Thanks!

Well, I don’t seem to be getting too far with this set up at home. I’ve tried plugging my cable modem at home into the AX, then opened Airport Utility on my iMac, but all it says is “Airport Utility was unable to find any Apple wireless devices”. I’ve tried unplugging and re-plugging in the AX to the electric power. Also tried the reset button on the AX.
I then tried turning on WiFi on my iPhone and the AX shows up as “Apple Network” followed by the AirPort ID number. I then plugged the ethernet plug from my cable modem back into the AX and I can connect with my iPhone via WiFi to my cable modem and go online. No set up at all, which is what I wanted to do in the first place, except when I tried this with the new modem in the shop, the iPhone “sees” and selects the AX, but there is no connection to the internet.
So now I’m stuck with two dilemmas. I can’t get my iMac at home to “see” the AX, and I can’t get the AX to connect to the Internet with the modem at the shop. ???
Oh, and the modem in the shop is a "Scientific Atlanta 2203" and is for both cable telephone connection and RR cable Internet connection.

Unable to Re-Setup Airport Express via iPhone or OSX

Hi, folks —
Am temporarily in a friend's house and want to reconfigure my airport express for music playback. Have never had issues with the AE before, but I can't get it configured — either via iphone or imac.
I have my iMac and iPhone 5s both on my friend's wifi network. I have factory reset my AE. It is flashing amber.
iPhone 5s (iOs 7.0.3)
The reset AE never appears in the Airport Utility on the iPhone. Internet appears and "No AirPort base stations have been found. Airport Utility will continue searching" is all it shows.
The phone is not connected to any VPN. I've tried this both connected to the friend's wifi network and just on the cellular network (LTE).
OSX Mavericks (all sub-updated installed as of Nov 12)
1. Reset AE appears under "Other Wi-Fi Devices (1)"
2. I select it, and when given the option, I choose "Add to Existing Network" under Other Options.
3. I name the new AE and give it a "test" password.
4. After several apparently successful steps (adding network, configuring, connecting, etc), the iMac itself loses internet connection during the attached screenshot step ("GVTC147650" is the wifi network name). The menu bar wifi turns to a greyed out wifi icon with an exclamation mark.
5. The Utility proceeds to "Waiting for [AE Name]".
6. This times out, leading to a "An unexpected error occurs" message.
At this point, the AE setup is incomplete and my iMac internet connection is broken. I am successfully connected to the wifi network, but told (in the menubar dropdown): "Alert: no internet connection"). The iphone connected to the same network can still access the internet without issue. The only way to solve the latter is to turn off wifi, remove the remembered ssid, and reconnect to it (when I am asked again for the password).
Any thoughts? This is pretty **** annoying. Should be so simple.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

The reset AE never appears in the Airport Utility on the iPhone
Did you tap Settings, then tap Wi-Fi, and then tap on the AirPort Express under the heading of Set up a new AirPort Base Station?
Is your friend using WPA2 Personal wireless security on his router/network?
That is what the Express wants to see, and it will not connect to the network if it doesn't. instead, you will see "An unexpected error has occurred" over and over, etc.

Airport express causes iphone and ipad to lose wifi

We have a new (3 months old) Airport Extreme in our house. It provides internet connectivity for an iMac, macbook pro, iphone 3gs, and ipad 2 (and a pc). Never had any problems.
Two days ago, I purchased an Airport Express to put downstairs, and wirelessly extend the wifi network. Setup seemed to go smoothly, and all devices reported a stronger signal downstairs. However, the iphone and ipad started behaving really strangely after an hour or so. They kepy saying they couldn't connect to the network, and even when I selected the network, they kepy saying the password was incorrect (even though I typed it in 10 times). I reset the network settings on the iphone, as well as powered it off and rebooted it to no avail. The only way I have been able to get things working again is to unplug the airport express; restore the airport extreme to its factory settings, and then re-set-up the network on the airport extreme from scratch.
After things were working again, I re-installed the Airport Express and configured it to wirelessly extend the network. Same thing happened: everything was fine for an hour or so, and then the iphone and ipad lost wifi connectivity and wouldn't re-connect. Only way to fix it was again to unplug the airport express and wipe the airport extreme back to factory settings and rebuild the network from scratch.
Is anyone else having this issue? I'd really love to use the Airport Express for its advertised functions of extending my wifi network (and streaming itunes on my stereo downstairs)-- but if it garbles or kills the ability for my iphone and ipad to use Wifi, that's unacceptable and it will be going back to the Apple store.
I should mention that as far as I am aware, I have the latest versions of ios running on the iphone and ipad, and the latest firmware updates for the airport extreme and airport express.
Has anyone dealt with this problem?
Many thanks.

Problem solved, found Ninja10's post and was able to fix this problem. Thanks Ninja10!
Ninja10
Re: iPhone 4 unable to connect to Airport Extreme
Aug 27, 2012 3:25 AM (in response to Ninja10)
Problem solved. I was recommended by a non Apple consultant to manually change the radio channel. Channel 11 worked.

Airport Express and iphone

I got Airport Express for Xmas and hooked up. The Admin Utility and set is on my iMac. My son has a laptop and I have an iPhone. I noticed when the imac is off, I can't get wi-fi on my iphone. I have really bad reception in the house and thought airport would solve it.
Does my imac have to be on 24/7 for iphone to get wi-fi? It never occurred to me I had to leave computer on. O

I checked my settings and under Sharing>Internet, sharing is off. Should it be on?
Only if you want to enable Internet Sharing on your iMac. Again, this feature reconfigures the iMac to perform as a software router. This would normally be used if you didn't already employ a hardware router on your network.
I assumed that in your current network configuration, the AXn was directly connected to your Internet modem by Ethernet ... is this not the case?

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I do not need another wireless network but want to use the airport express for printer access only. Can this be done and how?

You can configure the AirPort Expess to "Join a wireless network" and enable the Ethernet port so that Ethernet devices will be able to connect.
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More details here: Printopia - AirPrint to Any Printer - Print from iPad - Print from iPhone ...
There is a free trial available for Printopia, so make sure that it will work before you buy the AirPort Express.

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Lots of existing threads, but no consistent answer - what settings need to be applied to the 2012 (new) Airport Express for it to work at hotels with an ethernet only connection? Any answers specific to Japan would be helpful. I would prefer not to take my old Dell laptop and just be able to use my Ipad 2 via the wireless connection that the Airport Express creates. However, I can configure the Airport Express at home prior to leaving if that is the best thing to do.

I have a very similar problem with my AE! My MacBook, MacBook Pro & iPod Touch (1st Generation) all get a GREAT signal from our AE. BUT, our iPod Touch (2nd Generation) and new iPad (WiFi) get terrible signal strength unless we're right next to the AE!! Tech support at Apple is of no help! I'm ready to sell them all! This all started when we got the last OS update for iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad. So it must be a software issue not a hardware one..
Any ideas?

Hi i got a new airport express for christmas and i set it up as per instructions ,i even give a static ip and wpa2 security ..the problem is is when i come to want to use it it says its not on my network and a orange triangle shows .when i reboot it works

hi i got a new airport express for christmas and i set it up as per instructions ,i even give a static ip and wpa2 security ..the problem is is when i come to want to use it it says its not on my network and a orange triangle shows .when i reboot it works..then if i leave it a while and try iy agian its disapeared of my network...i have a bt hub 3 ....any help please ..im not sure if itsa faulty express

I really don't have an answer for that one. I guess that while trying to get things working correctly, I would use the most basic monitor I had which in your case would be the Eizon using the Thunderbolt port and adaptor.
When you boot into Safe Mode the startup is quite slow, but you should get the Apple logo and then the spinning gear below it (release the SHIFT key when it appears.) Then after a little more time you should see a gray progress bar appear below the spinning gear. When that disappears the computer will startup to a login screen.

Is it possible to plug in an external HDD to the USB connection on my Airport Express for backups?

Is it possible to plug in an external HDD to the USB connection on my Airport Express for backups? As a kind of cheapo Time Capsule?

Unfortunately no, because the USB port on the AirPort Express will only work with a printer and a Keyapan remote control. Hard drives are not supported.
You would need an AirPort Extreme for that type of functionality.

How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes

Saw somewhere that supposedly there were some apple written guidlines on the above topic. I have searched all over for them. Anyone know where I can get a copy to read through. Just trying to educate myself a bit and sety up another room with access to itunes, radio, etc with high quality speakers and amp off my express.

Here you go ...
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Using Airport Express for External speakers and Apple TV. When I'm on MAC computer adn using internet sound from Internet does not go through external speakers. Instead it comes out of Mac computer speaker. Why?

Using Airport Express for External speakers and Apple TV. When I'm on MAC computer adn using internet sound from Internet does not go through external speakers. Instead it comes out of Mac computer speaker. Why?

As far as I know, the Airport Express only transmits sounds via Itunes. So every other sound (internet, but also incoming mail) will be coming out of your mac instead of your external speakers.

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can i take a wired ethernet cable from the airport express for my tv reciever ?

Yes, you can.

Adding a second Airport Express for Internet Share?

I currently use an Airport Express for two reasons - either for Airtunes (which is wonderful) and also for Internet Sharing...
My ADSL modem is connected to my eMac via USB and if I turn on Internet Sharing to Airport (in the Sharing prefs pane) I can access the internet from my iBook or G5... but this way, I lose Airtunes... so it's Airtunes or Internet and not both at the same time.
I'm thinking of buying another Aiport Express so I can keep Internet Sharing turned on and use the other one for Airtunes. Is this possible?
Any ideas appreciated.
Jonny

You would be better off replacing your USB Modem with an ethernet modem wireless router and connecting your Macs to that network rather than use a Mac based software base station.
Having said that, your problem arises as you have two wireless networks, the eMac based network and one created by the Airport Express (AX).
You can re-configure your Airport Express to join (as a client) the eMac wireless network and then you can maintain internet sharing and use Airtunes.
Ensure that the eMac is working as the software base station.
Hard reset the AX.
Configure the AX (probably best to do this from the iBook or the G5) to join an existing wireless network and choose the eMac wireless network.
iFelix

Using the USP Port on Airport Express for Something Other Than a Printer

Can you use the Airport Express for, let's say, making a thumbdrive wireless? Or perhaps a wired keyboard wireless?
Will that work?
If not, is there a device that will make a USB product wireless?

You may want to invesitgate the Keyspan USB Server.
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/server/
iFelix

I now have internet thru AT&T Uverse with their wireless router.....do I still need to use my Airport Express for my 2 MACS or can I just unplug it?

I now have internet thru AT&T Uverse with their wireless router.....do I still need to use my Airport Express for my 2 MACS or can I just unplug it?

You can just unplug the express and use the Uverse wireless or ethernet directly to it.

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