Airport Express will no longer connect to my network or be found in iTunes
I've had an Airport Express connected to powered speakers for airplay for about two years. Worked great until yesterday when iTunes told me it could no longer find my AE on the network. I tried a factory reset but the air utility wasn't able to find the AE even after several rescans. It was able to find it when connecting with an ethernet cable, but was never able to verify the network wirelessly after a restart. Thinking that the AE had gone bad, I bought another.
Unfortunately, I'm having the same issues setting up:
Air Utility cannot find the AE wirelessly to set up. It can only find it when plugged in via ethernet
I can go through the set up process just fine via ethernet. Several times it cannot verify the network (error 10057) after unplugging the hard line, but several times I have gotten a green light, only to recieve either a 15006 error or a "Itunes could not find the AE device on your network error" when attempting the do airplay in itunes
After the 15006 error, the AE dissapears from Airport Utility and I have to start over
The AE DOES appear as a connected device in my router's configuration utility
Here's what I've tried:
Factory resets of both the AE (old and new) and my router (model M1424WR)
Moving the AE and powered speakers into the same room as the router to confirm that it's not a range issue
Tweaking router settings
Turning off my router security key to see if that was interfering with the AE's wireless connection
What else?
Try loging into your router settings and just change the name of your network. That usually works for me.
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