Airport express & G4 imac

I have just purchased a Belkin Modem/Wireless Router, trouble is i have a G4 imac without airport.
I am thinking of upgrading to a new imac but in the mean time I need to connect to the internet with the old G4. Could I use an airport express base station (connected to my G4 imac with ethernet cable) to wirelessly access the modem/router?

460cc, Welcome to the discussion area!
If it is a Belkin F5D7230-4 and F5D7231 it may be possible since those devices support Apple's WDS. Otherwise probably not since nearly any other device is not compatible with Apple's WDS.
Without WDS, the Ethernet port on the AirPort Express (AX) is inactive when the AX joins a wireless network.

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Airport Express and iMac

For 18 mos my iMac G4 connected wirelessly to my internet through my airport express basestation. Played music from iTunes through my stereo which was wired into my base station. In OCT 07 I upgraded to OS 10.5 and added a macbook to the network. No problems. Could print from the laptop through the iMac (to which the printer was attached); could network between the two computers. On 25 DEC for reasons I cannot fathom (no changes to the system that I know of), my iMac quit connecting to the wireless network. I moved the base station closer (right next to the iMac) and that briefly worked, but then that stopped. Meanwhile, I can connect with my macbook from anywhere in the house. I installed a new airport extreme card in my iMac and even replaced my base station with a new one. Nothing. I do have (and have had with the old card and base station) intermittent connectivity (sporadic email downloads, stock or weather updates on my dashboard, load most of page in safari); the wireless icon shows 4 bars, identifies my network by name, and shows time connected, but I am not connected. I am sporadically asked for my WPA password. I am at a loss and can't keep hauling the iMac to where I can hook it up to my modem by ethernet.

Many people have said that Airport Expresses are the main causes of music dropout. However, I conducted a little test with my iMac which has all the music on it. This is connected to my router via powerline networking. The AX is connected to the router wirelessly. When music is played to the AX, the music will intermittently dropout. Very annoying.
So, as a test, i used my notebook which is connected wireless to my router. However, all my music is resident on my iMac in the study, so rather than copy it, i share it out whereby the notebook discovers all the shared music via the network. Then I played a couple of tracks, feeding my music through to the same AX which is attached wireless also.
Guess what, no drop out, solid connection, and only breaks for a moment if there is heavy network access. it works extremely well.
So what am I trying to say here is that the imac and AX cannot play a tune flawlessly when accessed directly, whereas the notebook, communicating wireless through the to the imac, then to the AX is perfect! Bizarre? thought so!

Advice? Networking Airport Express, old iMac and ethernet converter/switch

Got an old iMac (266 mHz, OS 10.3.9, 384M RAM) I'm trying to get wireless and network with wife's laptop and (in a few weeks) a new MacBook. Internet is from a wireless provider (Clearwire.net) and its modem hooks into iMac's ethernet port. Works great.
Also have an Airport Express and I see two options here: Get an ethernet converter for the iMac or an ethernet switch that would connect to the Airport Express and the iMac (Clearwire modem, iMac and Airport Express are in same room, so wire connections not a problem).
The latter is cheaper (switch vs. converter), but would tie me down to that room. How much of a hassle would it be to network the iMac through the converter since it doesn't have an Airport card? Can I set up Airport Express through the Airport Assistant software in OS 10.3.9 on the iMac even though it doesn't (and can't) have a card?

All I can tell you is how I have my home network setup and hopefully that will give you some ideas. I have DSL at home which came with a DSL modem / Wireless router made by Westell. I have an eMac running 10.3.9 which I have an Airport Extreme card installed. I have my old "Grape" tray-loading iMac running OS9.2.2 for which I purchased an Ethernet-to-WiFi bridge device. And finally I have an ancient Windows ME running laptop on which I have a USB-to-WiFi device (I got it in a trade). All three of these I was able to setup and configure to access the internet via the DSL wireless router.
So to answer one of your questions, yes the Ethernet-to-WiFi bridges work fine, are OS independent, do not require drivers, and won't tie up your valuable USB port instead using the Ethernet port you likely are not using anyway.
However, the one thing I have not bothered to do is to share the computers with each other. In other words, all of them can connect to the internet but none of them are set up to see the others or share files. For what little sharing or file moving I need to do, I just use an USB Flash drive, which all three computers can see/use fine and transfer stuff that way if I need to.
Hope that at least helps a little with your quest,
Patrick

Itunes will not stream to airport express from iMac. It will work from and HP laptop any reason why?

Problem with Itunes on the iMac. I bought airport express to setream music to my stereo. When I set it up on the iMac (using an ethernet connection) it dropped my internet connection on the router. When I use the Wifi it just times out. I tried using the airport express from my laptop, it worked just fine. I called apple for support and they have not beeen able to help, and I am now 79 dollars in the hole because they suggested I call cisco. I have also spent 6 hours on the phone. any Help would be appreciated.

I got it to work. Turns out there are a few steps that should be taken during the install of ariport express. We have 4 users on our iMac, one being the Administrator, one a guest, and 2 users. After I closed all the applications for each users and logged them off, I was able to connect sucessfully to Airport Express and stream music to my Stereo. Seams simple, but someting we did not look at in my 6 hour marathon yesterday trying to find the reason it did not work.

Airport Express and iMac connection cuts out all the time

I have an Airport Express set to 802.11n with b and g compatibility. It is connected to a DSL modem with a static IP address via an Ethernet cable. I use a MacBook Air in the same room as the AE. In another room, I have a 24" iMac (Intel). The iMac is always connected to the AE network as is the MBA. Everytime I make a connection to the iMac (via Screen Sharing or other), the connection cuts out after awhile. There is no interference with the iMac connection, the AE is using a channel no one else around me is using, it just suddenly stops receiving any packets from the AE. I have to open Safari, wait for a website not to load, click on the Network Diagnostic button, go through the reconnection process to the AE network and then it comes back and tells me all is OK. The energy saver is set so the computer never falls to sleep and it is not related to the screen saver coming on.
It just stops sending data to the iMac. All firmware and software are up to date. I have the same problem when using Back to My Mac outside the home. Sometimes I can connect and sometimes I can't.
Can anyone help?

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. Here are the answers to your questions:
Channel selection is on Automatic. I have tried switching channels on both my DSL router (and it doesn't go to the channel I select!) and on the AE. Performance is the same.
iMac still drops connection even if MBA is not logged onto the network.
Screen Sharing's performance is poor, even if iMac is receiving other internet data (Safari or iTunes downloads)
MBA always has a good connection
Each machine is using 10.5.5. This problem exists only in the last couple of months when my DSL provider (all Linux) changed some of their configurations.
I will try to do the terminal exercise today. So far this am and last night, no dropped connections. Go figure!

New Airport Express/Old iMac

This is my first time trying to set up a wireless network. I have installed the original Airport Card in my iMac and I just upgraded to Tiger (10.4.3). When I try to use the Airport Assistant to connect to my new Airport Express, I get the "There was an error joining the AirPort network 'xxxxx'" message. At this point I am only trying to use Airport for printing (will be getting DSL in a couple of weeks). The Airport Express is flasing amber. I have reset it several times with no success. I have also tried to download 6.1.1 Firmware, but it will not install because I'm not connected to the Airport. Help please.
iMac Flat Panel G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
iMac Flat Panel G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Are you in range of the Airport Express? First off make sure you are sitting next to the AE.
I have this setup you are talking about, AE with the printer attached and no other connections. This configuration in my house has no blinking light just the solid green. This configuration work well I have two ibook laptops one older and one new that access the printer via the AE and it works great.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Configuring Airport Express on IMac Leopard

Has anyone had any difficulty getting the built in Airport Express wireless adapter to work with a Linksys router? A relative of mine just bought a Leopard and I tried to configure it to connect wirelessly with his Linksys router, but could not get a connection established. His ISP is Optimum Online, I read on these pages that Airport is not 100 percent compatible with every ISP. I also disabled MAC filtering on the router and made sure Airport is set to 'on' on the Leopard. Can anyone offer any thoughts?

The original "Airport Express - Leopard?!?!" thread was deleted by Apple and the problem was not resolved... Who knows why they didn't want the thread posted on their forums...
Anyway, this is from Google's cached version of the above thread. Worth a try if you have access to Tiger. I quote:
+I have a similar set up (I have an Airport Express that I want to connect to my existing Airport Extreme Base station's network) and spent about 2 hours swearing last night as I tried to sort this out, but after coming back to it tonight I can claim some success, though not without a significant caveat. The good news is that I got my Airport Express (AEXP) connected to my Airport Extreme Base Station's (AEBS) network. The bad news, is that I went back to Tiger to do it.+
+This is a set up I had working previously with WDS, but have recently moved and only am just now getting the AEXP back out to hook up the stereo. I have a TiBook that hasn't been updated to Leopard yet, so after an exasperating night last night, I picked it up and used the old Airport Admin Utility. Note: NOT the current Airport Utility that they introduced with the 802.11n AEBS and is the only option in Leopard. So here's what I did:+
+I just reset my AEXP to the default settings. Then I switched over to it's wireless network (Apple Network fb7... (whateve)+
+I launched the Airport Admin Utility, which detected the AEXP.+
+I clicked on it and the configuration window came up.+
+On the first screen in the bottom half of the window under Airport Network is a Wireless Mode pop-up menu. I chose "Join an existing wireless network".+
+This made another pop-up menu appear where I could choose my existing 802.11n network coming from my AEBS.+
+I believe I was prompted for the network password, so I put that in.+
+Then i made sure that my Airtunes was configured.+
+Updated (restarted) the AEXP+
+When nothing happened I remembered that I had to go back and rejoin my original existing wireless network. So I did that and momentarily both my AEBS and my AEXP popped up in the Airport Utility.+
+Both are there with green lights, internet connection is solid, and AirTunes is working in my living room.+
+So I've joined the AEXP to my existing AEBS's wireless network - which is what I wanted to do in the first place. Honestly I'm still unclear on the difference between "join an existing wireless network" and participating in a WDS network. I thought that WDS was for extending the range of a wireless network (this is how I had previously set up my AEBS and my AEXP). Now I would rather just have the faster 802.11n speed of the AEBS network and merely have the AEXP connected so that I can use AirTunes, but not ever actually connecting to the network through the slower 802.11g speed of the AEXP. So hopefully that's what joining an existing wireless network has done.+
+Either way, my wireless network is functioning, and so is AirTunes. So, for now, I'm happy.+
+Good luck with your respective set ups. Hopefully a copy of Airport Admin Utility is on the install disk for the AEXP. I was able to run it in Leopard, though when I did the configuring it was on the Tiger machine.+

Normal range for the Airport express in iMac

I have a pretty new iMac and since I installed I thought it has a low sensitivity. At the beginning I thought it was because the wireless router was too far, but yesterday I make a test and I put the router in front of the iMac, 3 meters of distance, direct vision without obstacles, and the wifi signal received by the iMac was 55% mesured with AirRadar. I think this is very low
Do you think there is any kind of problem with the Airport card? I read that in some versions of iMac there was a problem with the conexion between the antena and the card but I don't know if this happen in the latest versions of iMac

airranz, Welcome to the discussion area!
The wireless range should be much greater than that. It could be a fault of the iMac, it could be a fault of the wireless router, or it could be that wireless interference is destroying the wireless signal and drastically shortening the range.

Is there any difference in sound quality in streaming music over Airport Express in IMac, MacBook Pro and iPad?

I've noticed a difference in quality when streaming my iPad wirelessly to my Yamaha receiver and high quality speakers versus my Pro or iMac. The iPad sounds like a toy in comparison to the computers. I'd like some expert advice on what I should expect from the three mentioned devices when streaming wirelessly through a pretty good audio system. Like for instance, should there be much difference in sound quality between the Pro and the iMac?

First, don't hang onto the hope that next year's MBP won't have an optical drive; instead, you'd be advised to purchase a 2011 MacBook Air, which doesn't have an optical drive but relies on SDD. If you need a CD/DVD drive, you can get that separately, if you need. The latest Air has received better reviews than anything else in the Apple lineup.
I'm not an expert on the different brand of keys available. But you'll want to make sure the color is an exactly match to the model. Replacing thes keys is relatively inexpensive but tedious, you might do well to email sellers to guarantee the color and fit.
Good luck with the repair!

ARD to iMac connected via Airport express (idiots guide required)

Hello.
Im a new user to ARD and I would like to know in the most simplist of forms to connect to my iMac when I am away from home using my Powerbook.
Im not very informed on remote access so if someone could post an idiots gude step by step , and assume I know nothing, I would be very gratful indeed.
My set up.
Cable Modem connected to Airport Express
Computer: iMac
OS: Tiger 10.4.6
I have been able to connect to my iMac remotely when I connect an ethernet cable directly to my Cable Modem, however I have no idea what I am doing when connected to airport. I have no clue about port mappings etc etc, so any kind sole who can help woudl be a star for a week!
Thanks in advance.
Glenn

Hi, Andy,
If you've written up a good step-by-step guide, it'd probably be helpful to a lot of people, so you might want to submit it as a User-contributed tip. Contributions can be submitted here, or if you can't get into that forum (I think you have to be Level 2), you can submit through the Discussions Feedback forum. Save you responding to a lot of individual emails, and help out a lot of folks.
Regards.

Airport express: iMac read/write to pc, pc can see iMac but not read/write

airport express: my iMac can read/write files to my Windows 8 pc, not reverse. My PC can connect to my iMac (it shows on the PC as a network device) but cannot see any files or folders. Airport docs suggest that my Documents folder should be visible. Tried enabling access everywhere I can think on iMac such as SMB. Any help?

Hi everyone
I've managed to work out how to share my desktop and the external drive attached to it via wireless so my Macbook Pro can see, open, and edit and save photo files via Photoshop Elements.
I can also then view and edit them through the Windows PC - though they say some properties are missing this I can live with.
Therefore no re-formatting needed, and no downloads either.
Many thanks
Regards

AirPort Express Network Set-Up Help

Here is what I have:
- Two AirPort Express
- One iMac G4 700 MHz Running OSX 10.3.9 NO AirPort Card
- One PowerBook G4 768 MHz Running OSX 10.2.8 WITH Airport Card
- One 2WIRE 1701HG DSL Modem/Wireless gateway with 4 ethernet ports
- One "newish" USB printer
I want to be able to:
- roam around the house with my PowerBook
- stream tunes off my iMac to one at a minimum and maybe two home stereos
- share the USB printer to allow for printing from the PowerBook
Here is how I have working:
- I am ethernet wired from the iMac to the 2WIRE dsl Modem and that's how I am browsing now
- my USB printer is hard wired to my iMac
- I can browse from PowerBook with an AirPort connection to the 2WIRE gateway
- I can print from the PowerBook to the printer hooked to the iMac
How do I integrate the AirPort Express Base Stations?
Can the iTunes stream go down through the ethernet to the 2WIRE and then trhough the air to the AirPort Express? Or do I have to stream through the ethernet through the wired router side of the 2WIRE box and out the ethernet to the first AirPort Express, through the air and then into the second AirPort Express
I started configuring the new AirPort Expresses by connecting them via ethernet but find that once they are set up I can not see them to make configuration changes (but I can see them but not configure them from the PowerBook).
Of Course the problem lies with the 2WIRE device but how do I get around it?

You can configure both Airport Express devices as wireless clients to the existing wireless network created by the 2Wire wireless router. To set this up, follow the instructions posted here by David Lovell (which apply equally to Macs and PCs):
David Lovell, "Airtunes for XP with a Wired/Wireless network" #1, 09:05pm Jan 8, 2005 CDT
Both your iMac (via its cabled connection) and your Powerbook (via its Airport connection) will communicate with both Airport Express devices via their common connection to the 2Wire router.

Iphone 3GS has "169..." IP address after replacing old Airport Express

My 3GS is no longer connecting to my home network after replacing my old airport express.
Previously my old G5 iMac would have problems connecting to the old airport express, BUT my iPhone 3GS would reliably connect.
After installing this new airport express, my iMac is on the network, but NOW my iPhone 3GS is experiencing the same problem my iMac previously had: IP address changed to 169.254.205.191
Airport Express is set to WPA2 Personal
Updated firmware on the Airport express
Network settings on iphone have been reset several times.
Airport express has been rebooted several times.
Please help. Thank you.

Thnx William but that is not the case coz all other devices(laptops, desktops, PS3...etc) r working just fine.
after alot of time trying to figure out what the problem is I figured out the problem but cant seem to sove it:
I have three router in my network one acts as a DHCP server (router 1) and the others act as AP, they all brodcast wirless (SSID) based on the internet connection coming from router 1, all devices including my old iphone 3g connect on all three router no problem and get assigned an ip address within range 192.168.1.~, however when i connect my 3gs to router 1 (DHCP) it works perfectly and connects to the internet but when I connect to any of the other routers I cannot have internet access and it takes a long time to show the wi-fi symbol (3 bars), I managed to overcome this by giving my second router another network IP i.e 192.168.2.~ and made it aother DHCP server (but another network) that way my 3gs connected just fine like the 1st router, the problem with this solution is that I am on two seperate networks but same internet feed so I cannot communicate between lapto, desktop, PS3...etc
I guess I have two options:
1- wait for an update for 3gs hoping this could be solved and keep my network as is.
2- assign three different networks just for 3gs to work and sacrifice my whole home sharing.
SOOOO Pleaseeeeee if anything know anything or could help me in anyway please and post, is it just me or have i heared alot of Wi-Fi problems with 3gs!!!

Trouble introducing Toshiba to existing Airport Express (Mac) network

Hi all,
I've been away from Wintel PCs for around six years. Last time I spoke to the outside world with one was Win95 with ISDN & Hyperterminal connection!
Have had a mixed wired & wireless always on connection for around a year. Two existing Macs connect via Ethernet, whilst my iBook connects via Airport Card to Airport Express Base Station with iTunes.
Recently acquired a Tosh TE200, which connects to my router via ethernet, so has been updated to latest SP2. Furthermore, I've been able to download my data via smb over my LAN. So far, so good.
I don't know where to begin, though, to get my PC to talk to my Macs, which would be nice.
The bigger issue, however, is the fact that the Tosh can see the Airport signal, but can't seem to connect to it. In the Taskbar at the right, the warning given is, Not connected: right click for more options. When I view available connections, there's a big, fat five green bar signal from my Airport Express Base Station. It describes itself as:
Security-enabled wireless network
This network requires a network key. If you want to connect, click Connect.
When I click Connect, it goes through the motions (Please wait while Windows connects to the 'AirPort' network. Waiting for the network...) but doesn't connect.
I've scouted through iFelix's description and a few posts, and all settings appear to be alright.
Is this something I'm going to need to get a native XP version of AE Admin Assistant/Setup Utility & plug the Tosh into the AE Base Station with Ethernet?
I'm concerned about the danger of flashing my Base Station settings with the Tosh, cos the iBook gets considerable network, online & music use.
Can any of you guys plod me through this predicament? Please be gentle - HAL was thrust upon me for native business use.
G4 Cube 1GB RAM/G3 iBook 640MB RAM; AirPort Express/G3 iMac Rev B 640MB RAM/iPod Mac OS X (10.4.5) iMac OSX 10.2.8 Toshiba TE2000 XP SP2

iFelix, thanks for your response. I took a look at your link already, but some of it's a bit over my head. Didn't have this much to do to set up Macs. iBook also automatically recognises and connects to other wireless routers.
-What security are you running on your Airport network?
-Are you using WEP or WPA?
WPA Personal
-Are you using MAC address access control?
Er....
Here's the detail from my Apple System Profiler:
AirPort:
Type: AirPort
Hardware: AirPort
BSD Device Name: en1
IPv4 Addresses: 192.168.1.102
IPv4:
Addresses: 192.168.1.102
Configuration Method: DHCP
Interface Name: en1
Router: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Masks: 255.255.255.0
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
AppleTalk:
Configuration Method: Node
Default Zone: *
Interface Name: en1
Network ID: 65366
Node ID: 51
DNS:
Server Addresses: 62.31.176.39, 194.117.134.19, 195.188.53.175
DHCP Server Responses:
Domain Name Servers: 62.31.176.39,194.117.134.19,195.188.53.175
Lease Duration (seconds): 0
DHCP Message Type: 0x05
Routers: 192.168.1.1
Server Identifier: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Proxies:
Proxy Configuration Method: Manual
ExcludeSimpleHostnames: 0
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Auto Discovery Enabled: No
Ethernet:
MAC Address: 00:30:65:04:88:67
Media Options:
Media Subtype: autoselect

HT4259 Trying to set up airport express to extend my wireless network. Primary base station is a time capsule. Even when I plug in the airport express to mac it cannot find it.

Trying to set up airport express to extend my Wi-Fi network. Primary base station is a time capsule. Tried searching for airport express using Wi-Fi status, no luck. Even tried plugging airport express into iMac, still no luck. Airport express showing solid amber light. Thanks for any help.

Airport express showing solid amber light
Unfortunately, this can mean one of two things:
1) The Express is locked up and will need a Factory Default Reset procedure to try to return the device back to its original default settings so that it can be reconfigured again.
2) The Express is defective. If you cannot get the Express back to a slow, blinking amber light after a Factory Default Reset, the Express will need to be replaced.
Try the Factory Default Reset a few times and report back on your progress.
Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ

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