Airport Extreem behavior with legacy devices?

I have all Wireless n devices (iPad, iPod Touch, Macbook Air, etc.)
Has anyone experienced if the new Airport Extreem shows any improvement in behavior over the old version?
Thanks
-Mike

The new Extreme will not really provide significant improvement with normal "n" devices, but the signal range will likely be a bit better on the new Extreme mostly in part due to an improved antenna design.
I would estimate the range improvement to be 5-10% as a result of some informal tests that I've done with the product here. No way to predict what your results might be, however.
If you are in the market for a new router, then the new AirPort is probably worth a look, particularly if you plan to add 802.11ac computers in the next few years.

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Hi there,
Is anybody having troubles sending emails since 5 PM CET ?
Service got suddenly cut around that time today Saturday April 4 (getting a red cross and a message status : "Global Failure")
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- registrered now (in Host Routing Table options)
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cat /var/log/kernel.log
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.318168] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 6
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319078] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319283] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319445] IP: [<f8201f07>] sd_revalidate_disk+0x27/0x1cb0 [sd_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319594] *pde = 00000000
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319730] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.319879] Modules linked in: nls_cp437 vfat fat uas usb_storage fuse ipv6 ext2 snd_intel8x0 snd_cs4236 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_wavefront snd_wss_lib snd_pcm snd_opl3_lib nouveau snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401 ttm snd_mpu401_uart snd_page_alloc drm_kms_helper snd_rawmidi ns558 3c59x drm snd_seq_device processor i2c_algo_bit snd mxm_wmi i2c_i801 wmi ppdev intel_agp intel_gtt parport_pc agpgart mii video usbhid hid button shpchp pci_hotplug parport iTCO_wdt i2c_core evdev gameport iTCO_vendor_support soundcore ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sr_mod sd_mod cdrom pata_acpi ata_piix libata uhci_hcd usbcore scsi_mod
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Pid: 16515, comm: hald-addon-stor Not tainted 3.1.1-1-ARCH #1 /8IR533
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] EIP: 0060:[<f8201f07>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] EIP is at sd_revalidate_disk+0x27/0x1cb0 [sd_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f8204e60 ECX: 00000002 EDX: 00000000
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] ESI: c4e06c60 EDI: c4e06c00 EBP: f2ef3d34 ESP: f2ef3ca8
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Process hald-addon-stor (pid: 16515, ti=f2ef2000 task=ebc41aa0 task.ti=f2ef2000)
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Stack:
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] c02c57fd 00000002 f2ef3cb8 f81050ad f2ef3cd8 c0232022 c357e090 c0249ed0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] f6d34498 c4e06c3c f6d34498 f6406800 f2ef3cf8 c0232bc0 f2ef3d08 c4e06c3c
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] c4e06c00 f2ef3d0c c02c57fd c4e06c00 f2ef3d0c c357e090 00000000 f2ef3d1c
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Call Trace:
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c02c57fd>] ? kobject_put+0x1d/0x50
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<f81050ad>] ? scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext+0x13d/0x160 [scsi_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0232022>] ? find_inode+0x92/0xa0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0249ed0>] ? I_BDEV+0x10/0x10
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0232bc0>] ? iget5_locked+0x70/0x190
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c02c57fd>] ? kobject_put+0x1d/0x50
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0232d14>] ? iput+0x34/0x1c0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c02b7297>] ? disk_part_iter_next+0x97/0xe0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0271052>] rescan_partitions+0x82/0x560
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c02c57fd>] ? kobject_put+0x1d/0x50
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<f80fa007>] ? scsi_device_put+0x47/0x50 [scsi_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c04609cd>] ? mutex_unlock+0xd/0x10
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<f81ff9d9>] ? scsi_disk_put+0x39/0x50 [sd_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c024b746>] __blkdev_get+0x266/0x3c0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c024b8eb>] blkdev_get+0x4b/0x2b0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c024bba0>] blkdev_open+0x50/0x70
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0219e32>] __dentry_open+0x1d2/0x350
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c021b10e>] nameidata_to_filp+0x6e/0x80
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c024bb50>] ? blkdev_get+0x2b0/0x2b0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c02291af>] do_last+0x2ef/0x8c0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0229864>] path_openat+0xa4/0x350
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<f80fa007>] ? scsi_device_put+0x47/0x50 [scsi_mod]
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0229c21>] do_filp_open+0x31/0x80
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c0234873>] ? alloc_fd+0xa3/0xe0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c021b206>] do_sys_open+0xe6/0x1b0
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c016f8e1>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xe1/0x110
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c021b2fe>] sys_open+0x2e/0x40
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [<c046291f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Code: 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 c4 80 3e 8d 74 26 00 31 d2 89 45 b4 65 a1 14 00 00 00 89 45 f0 31 c0 8b 45 b4 8b 80 ec 01 00 00 <8b> 58 04 89 45 c0 8b 83 9c 03 00 00 89 5d b8 83 f8 04 0f 95 c2
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] EIP: [<f8201f07>] sd_revalidate_disk+0x27/0x1cb0 [sd_mod] SS:ESP 0068:f2ef3ca8
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] CR2: 0000000000000004
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.535181] ---[ end trace c949e922fd04c28a ]---
Dec 5 10:02:13 pshkadko kernel: [585782.948206] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device number 7 using uhci_hcd
Dec 5 10:02:13 pshkadko kernel: [585783.121881] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.126473] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access iriver E30 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.132555] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.134556] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.137512] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 475264 4096-byte logical blocks: (1.94 GB/1.81 GiB)
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.137573] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.140473] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.140481] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3e 00 00 00
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.140526] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143550] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143561] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143751] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143927] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.144079] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.144178] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
Dec 5 10:02:24 pshkadko kernel: [585793.691493] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 7
cat /var/log/errors.log
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143550] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Dec 5 10:02:14 pshkadko kernel: [585784.143561] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Last edited by tasty_minerals (2011-12-05 07:23:42)

If you look at this, then it appears that it may be a kernel problem:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg55636.html
But if you drill down into that thread, a developer says the real problem is "The implication from the trace seems to be that something allowed blkid to open a non existent device."
Then when I look at your log, it shows that the failing job is:
Dec 5 10:02:01 pshkadko kernel: [585770.321427] Pid: 16515, comm: hald-addon-stor Not tainted 3.1.1-1-ARCH #1
I wonder if the problem is somehow tied to using the depreciated hal daemon... but this is a total guess.

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My parents both have PC laptops with Windblows XP (gag, yea I know I'll swith them some day or die trying). They live in the country where they have no choice but dialup, so there is always a battle for who gets the phone line.
Question: If I buy them an Airport Extreem Base with the modem can they administer it from within Windblows XP?
The FAQ's were a bit confusing on this. Some places say administration by MAC OSX only other places talked about a windows admin tool.
mac-mini, powerbook, Dell XPS Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Question: If I buy them an Airport Extreem Base with
the modem can they administer it from within
Windblows XP?
Yes.
They will need to use a Java utility to control the modem.
Jon Sevy has a Java Utility for this purpose.
http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/#Hangup
You will need Java in order to run the utility
http://www.java.com
iFelix

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How do I set up a wireless network with an AirPort Extreme base station and two airport extreme but between apple devices either by ethernet

This Apple support document provides good general information on configuring different types of neworks using multiple AirPort routers.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4145
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Hi DaileyT,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
When do Apple wireless devices appear in AirPort Utility?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3624
Troubleshooting missing devices
If your Apple wireless device doesn't show up in the wireless device list, try the following:
Check to see that the device is turned on.
Check that the device is connected to the network via Ethernet or in wireless range of your computer.
Make sure the device has had adequate time to start up and become discoverable. In the case of Apple wireless devices that are not connected via Ethernet, AirPort Utility scans for new devices once every 15 seconds. From the time a device becomes discoverable (typically around one minute), it could take up to another 15 seconds before the device is displayed in the list.
If you have just configured a new Apple Wireless device, upgraded the firmware, selected "Restore Default Settings..." or have hard reset and configured an Apple wireless device and it does not show up in AirPort Utility after restarting, you may have an incorrect setting. You may want to hard reset the unit and set it up again.
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Best of luck,
Mario

Having issues with multiple devices connecting to AirPort

Hello All
I'm having an issue when people come to visit. It seems my network goes haywire once they get here with their devices.
My network consits of an Airport Extreme and two Airport Expresses connected to a cable modem. On the network I have two iMacs, Mac Pro, two TiVos, Xbox 360, Foscam Secutity camera, two iPad minis, iPod, iPhone 4S and an iPhone 3GS. They are all connected to the main network login.
When guests come over, most weekends my girl and her daughter, they have two iPhones, and iPad 2 and an iPad mini. Once they get here, we all seem to get knocked offline. Some devices stay connected at times, but most, if not all, get knocked offline. I assumed it was something wrong with one of their devices. They connect with the Guest login.
This weekdend we had some friends visiting and my girl and her daughter were not here. These friends showed up with two iPhones, a MacBook Pro, an iPad mini, iPod and a kindle. Same thing happended...all knocked off line. They also connected with the Guest login.
Are there limits to the number of devices? If so, I wouldn't think I am hitting that limit, could it be that low?
Thank you in avance for any input or assistance.
Cooch

I have the Express units that look like a white AppleTV. Not the ones that plug directly into the wall, they have a power cable. I believe they are 2nd Generation.
Yes, those would be 2nd generation Express base stations and they should be able to support up to fifty wireless connections.
Are both of these connected back to the Extreme with a wireless or wired connection? Regardless of which are they both configured to extend the Extreme's Wi-Fi range?
I am assuming that you have this network configured to also support a guest network ... correct?
The Extreme is not the latest tall one, it's the one just before they released the new one.
That should make your Extreme a 5th generation model, which is just fine.
Do the Express devices count as wireless connections?
Yes.
Even if I include the Express devices, I have 14 connections. If two people come to my home with two devices each, I am still under 20 connections. All Airports and devices are on the same level of the house, approximately 1000 square foot area, with open doors into every room.
Yes, according to the number of devices you stated, this should work.
The only idea I have at this time is to temporarily disable the guest networking feature. Once done, see if you still have the issue. Do you?

HT5622 Hello - my wife and I use the same appleID (legacy of our first ipod) and now that we've gone to the cloud with multiple devices, is there a smart, easy way to either segregate the data in the iCloud to each of our respective devices or ?? Thx

Hello - my wife and I use the same appleID (legacy of our first ipod) and now that we've gone to the cloud with multiple devices, is there a smart, easy way to either segregate the data in the iCloud to each of our respective devices or ?? Thx in advance ...

Hello eagjdw
You can keep the one Apple ID for purchases and then create another one for a personal account for contacts and calendars. The article below will assist further
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4895
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

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AirPort Utility > Select the AirPort > Manual Setup
Internet > Internet Connection tab > Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)

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just installed a new time capsule and i want to use my airport express to extend my wireless range....time capsule working with existing devices at this time...but i am not able to get airport utility to recognize the airport express.....????

Temporarily connecting your AirPort Express to one of the Time Capsule's Etherent LAN <-> ports...as LaPastenagure suggests....is always a good way to setup and configure other network devices.
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Should I buy airport express, extreme or time capsule? I have my new Mac Pro. 2 iPhones, 2 iPads , and grandchildren who come with their devices. I live in a two-level house.

A Time Capsule is an AirPort Extreme with a built in hard drive to allow your Mac(s) to back up automatically, so it's a logical choice if you need a wireless router and back up capabilities for your Macs
The AIrPort Extreme has a bit better antenna arrangement than an AirPort Express, so it would be a good choice for a two level house.
Depending on the location of the "main" wireless router, you may find that you still need to add an extender or two in other parts of the house for full, fast wireless coverage. The AirPort Express is a good choice for this duty.
To compare the 3 Apple devices, see this Apple support document:
Compare Apple Wi-Fi base stations AirPort Express AirPort Extreme Time Capsule

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GerleMan, Welcome to the discussion area!
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Your ISP is blocking the port used by Entourage to send mail and the ISP used by the other wireless networks is not.
OR
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