Airport express setup problem?

using express to increase range of base station.......several hours of glitches.......now appears to be working, dramatic increase in signal strength from 1 to 10 bars, but amber light still in flashing mode after many resets.........any help appreciated, many thanks, beanman
Mac OS X (10.4.6) ibook g4

It sounds like it might be the way you've got it setup. Open the Airport Admin Utility. Double click the base station in question. With the Airport "tab" selected, click on the "Base Station Options..." button. Click on the Status Light "tab". Make sure it's set to Always On instead of Flash.
Hope that helps.

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I have an Airport Extreme setup as WDS Main and an Airport Express setup as WDS Remote. But Doing this I am unable to receive shared net connection from Extreme to Express using Airport Setup Utility. It will only allow networking and not internet.
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Internet connection sharing must be set up on the main base station in your network, which would be the base station that is connected to your cable or DSL modem.
Internet connection sharing must not be enabled on any of the remote base stations in your WDS. So... what I'm saying is do not touch the configuration of your Airport Express.
Once you have enabled internet connection sharing on the main base station and the main base station has rebooted, then pull power for a moment to the Airport Express to force a reconnection to the base station.
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Use a Mac running an earlier OS X version that supports v5.6 of the AirPort Utility.
Run a virtual machine on your Mac that is running an earlier OS X version.
Use a Windows-based PC.
Update to a newer base station.
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Can't Connect Properly to Router After Successful Airport Express Setup

Hello - this is my first time posting here, but I had a weird issue I was hopeful someone could assist with.
Basically, I was having a lot of trouble setting up my Airport Express to join my existing network to steam audio to a set of speakers. After trying a number of permutations and searching on the internet, I found out that when selecting to join my home network I needed to select WEP-40 rather than WEP-128. Once I did this, it worked!
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Welcome to the discussion area, dgbruce!
Your post did not indicate whether you had performed a full power cycle on your network. You should always do this whenever you make any changes on your network. If you have not already done this, follow this procedure:
Power everything...all devices...down, order is not important.
Wait a moment, then start the modem and let it run a moment or two by itself.
Then, start the next device connected to the modem the same way.
Keep starting devices until you have everything powered back up.
What are your results?
If no help, can you tell us if you made any changes to your main router? If no, power down the AirPort Express only. You are now back to your original condition. Can the PC connect now?
If no, then the connection issue is between your wireless router and the PC (because the AirPort Express is not even on the network)
If yes, and the PC connects correctly now, power the Express back up and watch for any changes. What are the results?
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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I have an Airport Extreme running my home network with two Airport Expresses, both hooked up to powered speakers. One Express is the older model, the other brand new. AirTunes intermittently drops one or the other speaker setup. My question is this- would I potentially fix this problem by upgrading the older Express to a new one? Thanks!

My question is this- would I potentially fix this problem by upgrading the older Express to a new one?
If all of your wireless client support 802.11n, then the answer would be yes. In that case you could create an 802.11n only network to get the best bandwidth possible for streaming.

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I have my wireless network setup, using my AirPort Extreme with 802.11n to create the wireless network, then i have a new AirPort Express (with 802.11n) and an old AirPort Express (not 802.11n).
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It is kindof sad, now my old AirPort Express is useless - the point was that i should be able to have them both as external audio targets for my iTunes...
I hope you guys can help me.
Kind regards,
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Hi again Bob,
Just one thing i find "funny" - you know, in the AirPort tool, you can go and change the settings of a AirPort device. If I go to the "new" Express, I can change the "name" of the iTunes speakers (the name that apear in my iTunes drop-down) - but when I try to do that at the "old" Express, when I click update - I gives me a warning - saying something like "not supported by this wireless apple device" (even though the setting is avalible from the AirPort tool)
All the best,
Rasmus

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All right, I have an AirPort Express that up until now I've been able to successfully use to get both my MacBook and my Wii on the internet. But today, the signal kept disappearing from my menu bar. That had never happened before. I thought maybe I was too far away from it (even though both the airport and myself were in my tiny living room), so I moved closer, but it still kept disappearing. It would randomly appear, and I'd be able to use the internet for maybe 30 seconds, then it would disappear again. I tried soft resetting it, hard resetting it, and resetting it to the factory default with no success. The light on my AirPort Express shines green, but neither my MacBook nor my Wii can get/keep a signal. And now, after resetting it to the factory defaults, my MacBook can't connect to the internet even when the network DOES show up in the menu bar. Very frustrating! I used the AirPort Setup Assistant to restore my internet settings back onto the AirPort, but that didn't help. When I try to connect to it using the Admin utility, I get the spinning beachball for a while, then eventually get a password prompt—but after entering the password, it says, "The AirPort Admin Utility was unable to read the configuration of the selected base station. An error occurred while reading the configuration."
Any help? I've got so much work I need to do, it's crazy.
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further, do you mean your Airport symbol at the top of the screen grays out? If so, your symptoms are pretty much those of problems that are plaguing a number of Express users at the moment. You'll find several threads on the matter further down this forum, or, at least, threads describing the same symptoms.
The only thing that works for me - most of the time - is to do a factory re-set, wait a little while, then reconfigure, with the Express connected directly to the computer via an ethernet cable. The longest I've lasted without the problem recurring is about three days. I'm about 14 hours away from three days since it last happened. I have my fingers crossed.

Airport Express setup for Internet

Alright, I just want to make sure this cannot be done, as the documentation with Airport Express isn't clear to me.
My setup is this:
- Wireless Model (D-Link from Comcast)
- 1 desktop hardwired (XP)
- 1 Laptop hardwired (Vista)
- All 3 above are in the Office in front of the house
I connected my Airport Express in an outlet in the living room, in the back of the house close to the back patio. No ethernet cable connected to it, just the Audio/RCA cable, that goes into my receiver. 2 outdoor speakers connected to the receiver.
I use my iPhone to connect to iTunes on my laptop, to play music outside.
So my iPhone sees 2 wireless networks:
- Comcast
- Airport Express
From outside, the signal for the Comcast (D-Link is almost unreachable, because it's too far. So I use the Airport Express, which is perfect. Problem is that I can't access the Internet with it.
Now, is there a way to configure the Airport Express so I can access the internet, without connecting an Ethernet cable to it?
The Airport Express is too far to have an Ethernet cable attached to it...

Guys, the Express is too far to have an Ethernet from the main base to the Express connected (unless I run a cable through the wall, etc...) but close enough that they see each other.
The only problem is that my iPhone can barely see the main base from my backyard, but the signal is much stronger when connecting to the Express.
Again, I cannot access the internet that way because it doesn't have DNS.
So you're saying that if I set it to "join an exisiting network", then I would only see 1 network with my iPhone and still get a good signal from my Express when in my back yard?
Or will I still have to choose which network to connect to?
Rememebr, right now, my iPhone can see 2 networks (Comcast and Airport Express).

Can't get started with Airport Express; WPA2 problem?

Howdy,
I purchased an airport express about a month ago and am unable to get it set up, at all. My goal is what the setup guide calls "Using AirPort Express on an existing wireless network and stream music to powered speakers" (pg. 15 for those who have the book). The failure is that Airport Admin Utility doesn't recognize my third party wireless network.
My wireless hub is a linksys wireless-G cable gateway, and has been in use with multiple computers in the current setup for a couple years. It is setup with WPA2 personal, TKIP+AES encryption, and MAC access list enabled. SSID broadcast is currently enabled.
I am running OSX10.4.11 on the computer that I am using to attempt to configure this.
Following the instructions for "Connecting to an Existing Wireless Network" (pg 25), I am attempting to use Airport Utility. But there is no such program on my computer, so I am assuming that Airport Admin Utility is what the book refers to as Airport Utility. Airport Admin Utility presents a "window titled Select Base Station" but lists no base stations. I click "Other", provide the IP address and password, hit OK, and ... nothing happens. After 20 seconds the beachball appears, and after another 20 seconds it says "The airport admin utility was unable to read the configuration of the selected base station".
The IP address I used is the one that I enter into the web browser to access the linksys box (no secret here, 192.168.0.1). The password is the one used to access those settings (e.g., the linksys default is "admin", but I changed it). I know the IP address and password are correct, but I do not know if this is the IP address and password the program is asking for. I don't even know if I am running the correct program!
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Actually, I have it working now.
What I did after posting my last message was I connected the AE to my wireless hub, via ethernet cable. Then Airport Utility was able to find it, initialize it, and load new firmware into it ("it" being the AE). During initialization stage I told it it would be connecting wirelessly to an existing wireless network, and I gave it the network name, security options and password.
Then I told the wireless hub to allow this device (MAC address = Airport ID), disconnected the ethernet cable, power-cycled the wireless hub, and relaunched Airport Utility. It saw the AE, so I quit that. Then I launched iTunes and selected my AE as the speakers. It told me I needed to enable iTunes Music Sharing in my firewall. After doing that, iTunes is now playing through my external speakers. Exactly what I want.
Now I just need to go set this up on my laptop, with the AE and speakers on the other side of the house where I want 'em.
As a recap, I think I basically had two problems, both related to documentation. First, the program that the Setup Guide tells me to use wasn't in my Tiger applications folder, and I was fooled by a program with a similar name (in the past I have seen such name changes between what the setup guide said I should use and what I really needed to use). Second, it wasn't clear to me that, regardless of how I wanted to configure things for usage, I needed to establish a valid wired connection to the AE to initialize it. I think that could be made clearer in the book.
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Airport Express setup. Local/LAN network only. NO INTERNET.

Hi,
I am attempting to set up a home sharing network for my Grandma that will stream iTunes Movies, TV Shows and music between an AppleTV 3rd generation and an Original iPad via an airport express. My Grandma does NOT have internet and has no plans to get it either.
2011 iMac:
- System Mac OS 10.8.3 (Lion)
- iTunes 11.0.2
- No firewall up
2011 Airport Express (Not Extreme):
- Create network, password protected, no internet - amber light flashing.
AppleTV 3rd Generation
- Lastest Firmware
Original iPad:
- Latest update for system and all Apps
I set up the airport express to create a network, but without the internet the amber light blinks continually.
I used my iPhone's internet to set up her iMac iTunes and appleTV with my Apple ID and password.
When I disconnected my iPhone from the network everything still worked and the iTunes library media can be seen perfectly on the AppleTV.
However, she likes watching movies on the iPad in bed.
1. I connected the iPad to the internet and input the correct Apple ID and password.
2. Disconnected the iPad from the internet and connected to the WiFi (with no internet) home sharing network via the airport express.
3. The iMac can see the iPad on the network and offers to sync via wifi and everything.
But I can't see the iMacs media library when i open the Videos App on the iPad.
Can the original iPad do this (Airplay?)or can only second generation iPads (and up) stream media content from iTunes?
(I know the original iPad can't mirror but thats all the information I could find on the support communities.)
Is the Airport Express continually attempting to connect to the internet causing network interuptions?
If so is there a way to setup the airport express to JUST be a local network?
On a side note, I have also setup Air Video Server (App and Mac aplication). It can see all the iTunes media files however the network will sporadically drop out with an URL error or network timeout.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

FYI:
I solved the above problem... set everything up.... restart iPad.
The Video app now can see the shared library on the Mac.
Also for those interested in the local network with no internet. I can't give you specifics on the settings for my aiport express but it worked. The amber light flashes but if you set up the airport using the Airport Utility app on your iPhone (vs your Airport Utility on the Mac). The iPhone app gives you extra options to ignore warnings which if selected will turn the light solid green.
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