Airport Express / Orange-LiveBox

Dear collective Brain of the Apple,
I have a intel 20" wifi'd to a Orange "LiveBox" wireless router. It works fine and is rock solid with connectivity to the internet.
I bought an AirPort Express to connect iTunes to the home stereo. It worked great for about three days - then it disconnected. Green light is still on but imac doesn't see it. If I reset the express and tell Airport set-up to connect it - it does and iTunes sees it but can't connect to it. After a few minutes of wheel spinnining it gives up and defaults to computer speaker.
itunes 7.01 is in and I've just downloaded the latest OX update - 10.4.8
I've done this routine several times now and need help.
Thanks in advance!

Hello Talmon,
my guess is that in the meanwhile your Livebox changed it's state. I know Orange did a large update in october and it may be the reason of thischange in the LB state.
But sometimes it happens to me also, not with my airport express, but with my wifi printer.
I suggest you could check if the MAC address filter is on. Then you can try to have the Airport express recognized again by pressing the "Reg" button beneath your LB meaning you'll force the LB to recognize any wifi device that is connected.
All this rely on the hypothesis of a MAC filtering status (you can test it by deactivating MAC address filter in the admin section of the LB : you should hear again your music on the distant device.
Yours,
Fabinho

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