Airport Extreme (n) router keeps resetting.

My internet keeps going on and off, Ive reset to factory defaults and it keeps resetting every 10-15 minutes for a few seconds. The only thing I have changed is added 1 port forward.

I have the exact same problem and it has only been since just after the new years actually about the time the new time capsule was released it started happening I don't really want to hard wire my connection that is why I have wireless router so my Mac doesn't have to be like pc with wires coming out of it like an octopus as a caveat my time machine stopped working without warning too a few days ago??????????????HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM anyone else?

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HT4628 I recently transferred my internet service to another state. Have not yet moved my imac, just my pc laptop. I cannot get my airport extreme wireless router to work. The green light stays lit when everything is connected but I can't connect to the i

I recently transferred my internet service to another state.I have not yet moved my imac, just my pc laptop. I cannot get my airport extreme wireless router to work. The green light stays lit when everything is connected but I can't connect to the internet. Any suggestions?

I would recommend that you do the following as a minimum:
Power-down the modem, AirPort base station, and computer(s).
Power-up the modem; wait at least 10-15 minutes to allow it adequate time to initialize.
Power-up the AirPort base station; wait at least 5-10 minutes. Note: The AirPort's status light may continue to flash amber after it has intialized. That is because, there may be some additional configuration items necessary, like setting up wireless security, before the overall setup is completed to get a green status.
Power-up your computer(s).
If the above steps do not solve the problem, start over with step 1 above, but then perform the next steps between steps 1 & 2. above.
Disconnect the AirPort base station from the Internet broadband modem.
While all of the devices are powered-down, perform a "factory default" reset on the base station. This will get it back to its "out-of-the-box" configuration and make setting it up much easier, especially if you use the "Assist me" process within the AirPort Utility. (ref: Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule)
After the base station resets, go ahead and power it back down.
Reconnect the AirPort base station to the Internet broadband modem. For the Extreme and Time Capsule, be sure to connect the cable to the base station's WAN (circle-of-dots) port.
Continue with step 2 in the first set of steps.
In this basic configuration, the AirPort base station will broadcast an unsecured wireless network with a Network Name (SSID) of Apple Network NNNNNN. Network clients, connected to the base station either by wire or wireless, should now be able to access the Internet through the ISP's modem. Once Internet connectivity has been verified, you can use the AirPort Utility to configure the base station for wireless security and any other desired options. Please post back your results.

Why does my Airport Extreme Base Station keep appearing as a Shared device?

After installing 10.5 my Airport Extreme Base Station keeps appearing with a Windows PC icon under the SHARED list in the Finder, and I don't have a hard drive attached. Does anyone know why it's appearing, and how I can make it go away?

Even more weird in my case, I have the Airport Extreme show up twice under Shared. One shows an icon of the actual Airport Extreme which is the one that has the hard drive attached and that works fine. The second is named Airport-Extreme and has an icon like its a PC. lol Not sure what's going on here but if you ask me the first one should be there because that makes sense, but I have no idea why the second one is displayed. Must be some sort of bug.

Trying to clarify what these are: is airport extreme a router? What is airport express?

Trying to clarify what these are: is airport extreme a router? What is airport express a router as well?

SimonJester753 wrote:
It was a long time ago. I remember wanting to connect my desktop mac via an ethernet cable, but the setup assistant was insisting on wireless. I think I finally took out the wireless card from my Mac so it would use the ethernet cable. Eventually I put the card back.
The zillion and one setting to wade through might mean more choices to the tech-heads, but I just wanted it to work.
I don't recall the type of router we had at my previous job, but I just plugged it in, went through a simple set up and forgot about it because it just sat there and worked.
I have had to go back to factory settings and start from scratch with my Extreme many times. The last time the amber light started blinking I just ignored it for months, because it didn't effect my internet connection, I just lost the ability to get iTunes over to the Express I have hooked up to my stereo.
BTW, what's a wall wart?
The big box on the cord.

I have an Airport Extreme wireless router & I can not connect my Kindle.

I have an Airport Extreme wireless router & I can not connect my Kindle. Also, my password will not work when a visitor uses it for a laptop (even a Mac) or any other device that uses the internet. It says the password is incorrect. I easily connected a Kindle last year, but I got a new one & now I can not connect wirelessly. I see no tab to create a guest network. I do not mind giving my password to visitors, but that does not work.

If you temporarily disable wireless encryption on your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn), can the Kindle connect to the router and gain access to the Internet now? If so, then I would suggest that you reconfigure the AEBSn to use "WPA2 Personal" for the Wireless Security setting, and then, try connecting with the Kindle again.
As far as establishing a Guest Network, the AEBSn must not be in bridge mode. That is, it should be the only router in your current network and directly conncted to the Internet modem. If it is, then you would find the Guest Networking option on the AirPort > Guest Networking tab:

Time capsule with a airport extreme n router

Question I already have a Airport Extreme N Router and it works very well. But now I would like to have the Time Capsule and some how I don't know, have both hooked up maybe the older extreme N router as a extender? Can any one tell me how I can do this or if it can even be done.

Do exactly what you describe but place the secondary router in bridge mode then configure its wireless.

My Windows Airport Extreme wifi connection keeps dropping on a partitioned MacBook Pro.

My Windows Airport Extreme wifi connection keeps dropping on a partitioned MacBook Pro. I have read many online threads without a solution. Do you have one?

My Windows Airport Extreme wifi connection keeps dropping on a partitioned MacBook Pro. I have read many online threads without a solution. Do you have one?

Airport Extreme / Netgear router

Please could somebody walk me through this step by step as I am pulling my hair out ...
I have a Netgear DG834 router which is connected to my broadband connection and is feeding my Macs. I have bought an iPad2 and have been trying to connect my Airport Extreme to the Netgear in order to use WiFi. I want to leave the Netgear connected as it is because it is fast and very reliable, the Airport Extreme will be solely for iPad2 and iPhone.
I have plugged the Airport Extreme into one of the outputs from the Netgear but all I am getting is a flashing amber light. Having reset it about 20 times this afternoon I need somebody to walk me through the entire process. It keeps telling me that I don't have a WiFi connection and to be honest I have absolutely no idea how to set one up.
All help greatfully appreciated!
Chris Blackwell

i have a probleme to with my net gear dg834 and l'airport extreme, i want to use my airport extreme as WIFI and for thats i need to put my netgear only as router not wifi the only option i can use is the airport as bridge but not as WIFI...i try to cut the DHCP in the netgear but the airport dont send any signal after thats...
the question is: how i can deconnect the wireless option in my netgear and after use the airport as WIFI router.
thank (sorry my english is not good)

Airport Extreme, Linksys Router WRT54G: Internet is Impossibly Slow

I have a problem regarding wireless internet activity on my Powerbook G4. In my house, I have a Linksys Router (WRT54G) that has worked fine for other laptops (including an iBook running Airport Extreme, a Powerbook G4 running Airport, and an iMac running Airport) for many years. When I got a refurbished Powerbook G4 1.67 GHz with Airport Extreme, I found that while Airport could be configured to recognize the wireless network (with a WEP 40/128-bit encrypted key), it barely works on the computer. The signal strength is strong (the laptop is hooked up right above the Linksys router), but the Internet barely works at all. Surfing to webpages takes 10-20-30 sec to work, and often the connection seems to drop off all together. Something is clearly wrong because despite the fact that this is my fastest computer with the fastest wireless capability, it runs at a slower pace than any computer I have ever used on the web.
I was wondering if anyone has had similar problems with getting Wireless Extreme on Powerbook G4s to work with this particular (and older) model of Linksys wireless browser (WRT54G). Some Internet sleuthing led me to believe that perhaps the router firmware needs to be updated or something like that, but I haven't really found any definitive answers. If there is anything wrong on the laptop-OS-side, I have no idea. I would appreciate any pointers that you can provide!
Thank you to all,
Matthew
Computer:
Powerbook G4
1.67 GHz
1 GB DDR SDRAM
OS 10.4.8
Wireless Router:
Linksys
Model: WRT54G
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.67GHz, 1GB DDR SDRAM

Hi all,
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, my problems persist.
I was able to reset my router and to configure it again on the web-based router configuration.
As per your suggestion, I tried switching the Wireless Network Mode to "G-only." Not only did this kick off my older computers on the network (an old iMac and an older Powerbook G4, both with normal airport), but it did not fix the speed problems on the new Powerbook G4/with Airport Extreme. I am back on the mixed setting now in order to get most of the computers on the network back to their old working states...
I also tried disabling my WEP encrypted key but found that this did not speed anything up at all.
I have upgraded my firmware from its previous version, v 1.41.2 (very old!), to the latest from the Linksys website: v 4.30.5. This has not helped at all either.
Is it possible that there is any setting on the Powerbook/Airport Extreme itself that is causing these problems?
Thank you all again for your help,
Matthew
Powerbook G4 Titanium Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1gHz, 512mb RAM

Is current airport extreme a router?

My airport isnt - I had to use old router conected to it.
I may be getting the words wrong, but bacically I got a netgear wireless router in 2001. Bought airport extreme 2 yrs ago to replace it, but of course it doesn't as its not actually a thing that turns the phone line into and internet signal. Modem? Router? whatever its cammed.
The netgear station keeps quitting, but I have no idea what to replace it with - any ideas?
I want fast broadband!!

It's a router, but it needs to be connected to a modem

Airport extreme, dlink router, no network detected

Hi
I have installed my airport extreme card, intending to connect via my D-Link DSL-G604 ADLS router to the internet, wirelessly, but airport does not detect any networks. This seems unusual as the other computer, a PC, in our house picks it up immediately, and connects.
Is there some secret to connecting to a non-airport base station? Can someone perhaps talk me through the process?
many thanks

Hi,
The D-Link I have is a little bit different than yours; mine is a DI-524. But maybe that what I read on the D-Link website will also apply to you.
D-Link recommed to set the security to WEP 128bits HEX. Try this setting. I got issue in between Airport and D-Link when I set the security to anything else but in WEP-128bits HEX as recommended on the D-Link web site.
let me know if this work!

Airport Extreme Freezes After Soft Reset

Hi Everyone,
I'm having an issue with the 7.5.2 firmware update for my Airport Extreme. We have several devices which use DHCP reservations and after updating to 7.5.2 I went in to change some of the IPs and other settings (using AirPort Utility). After making the changes I pressed update and the Airport started the reset, but the light just stays amber and I have no connectivity. I end up having to pull the plug and do a hard reset. After a hard reset, when I check the Airport, none of my changes went into effect.
I have tried many times with different settings and it always does the same thing whenever I try to update the changes; it hangs during the soft reset without saving any changes. When I downgrade the firmware to 7.4.2, however, everything works perfectly.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I too have run into the same problem as ‘controls.freq’ although sometimes the light just stays amber (like controls.freq’s documented post) and other times it stays solid green after clicking "Update." No matter, the result is the same -- I have to perform a hard reset (pull the plug) of the Airport Extreme and none of my changes have been made. I not only run into this when trying to add static DHCP addresses (like controls.freq), but also when trying to add MAC addresses to timed access control lists, or (when playing around) trying to change my wireless network name .... honestly, it probably fails for many other changes too.
So I tried what Bob suggested -- but no luck. A lot of effort but no reward. I tried loading 7.4 firmware (tried both 7.4.2 and 7.4.1 which ran more reliably in my environment) and then doing the factory reset, then upgrading to 7.5.2 and setting everything up. But after maybe one successful save of settings, all subsequent saves failed as described earlier. Then I tried a factory reset while running 7.5.2 and ran into the same problem after maybe the first successful save.
The only reliable workaround is to DOWNGRADE to 7.4.x, make the necessary changes, and then upgrade again to 7.5.2. I must say ... if there were some way I could get the system to stop offering new code reliably (that doesn’t even work even when I tell it I don’t want to check for updates), then I’d just stay with 7.4.1 throughout the environment with success.

Airport Extreme ethernet routing in Bridge Mode

i had(!) the following scenario Airport Extreme (5th Generation) .. via WAN connect to the modem, Ethernet to serval switches, WiFi acting as WDS Main
the WDS Slaves are 3 small Airport express and one Airport Extreme (1st Generation)
due a cabeling problem i had to move the WAN Modem .. and connected it to the 1st generation airport extreme created a Joined network (not WDS) enabled DHCP on the same device.
the new Airport extreme (5th generation) and the Airport Express joined the same network and running in bridge mode.
everything works just like before .. all networks parts can connect to each other, anywhere else including the internet.
exept of anything connected to the ethernet ports of the (now slaved) airport extreme (5th generation) anything connected there seems not to be routed at all ..
they have a physical connection (link show on the Airport and on the Switch. but there is zero data going trough ... no DHCP adresses assigned. manually assign a IP in the same network results in the same effect (can't even ping the directly connected Airport Extreme.
is this a Bug ?

oh ic ... thats why it worked before the other way arround ...
well does still not make any sense to me .. but you are 100% right ..
enabeling WDS on the Airport Extreme (1gen) and doing slave the Airport extreme (5 gen) works fine .. but the connection times are about 10 times slower than in a joined network.
which makes the whole show extremly slow ...
it takes some times 5 minutes and a million time clicking (assign new) to just get an IP adress ... even if the dhcp running on the same Airport where the client is connecting to ..
if the 5gen APE is WDS master .. and the 1gen is WDS Slave (my old setup) .. this problem is not existing ...
but then ican't connect the WAN modem to the slaved Airport since the slave is always bridged and the master requires internet connectivity trough the local Wan port
any idea to get arround this ?

Mac OSX server not supported behind Airport Extreme NAT router?!!

For a customer, I recently installed a new XServe, within a local network with an Airport Extreme (n) with FW 7.4.2. Mac OSX Server manages the router (which has a fixed IP from the ISP). Because the Mac OSX Server runs a DNS server (supporting a local domain), OSX Server reconfigured the Airport Extreme, so that it would forward DNS queries to the server. The server's dns server will forward queries for non-local domains to the ISP's dns servers.
All clients get their IP configuration using DHCP from the router. You can't use the DHCP service of the server, as you can't disable DHCP on the router (in NAT mode).
All clients get the router's IP as the dns server.
HOWEVER:
The Airport Extreme can't connect to the internal DNS server! *It doesn't seem to be able to route dns requests to the internal network* (verified using nslookup). Any dns queries sent to the router will time out.
Come on, Airport Extreme team.. you can't claim the Airport Extreme to be the ideal router in combination with an OSX server, if this simple and very common setup is not supported! How hard can it be to either:
...*Allow us to disable DHCP on the router* (even when in NAT mode), so we can use the OSX server for this (which will dispatch the correct DNS settings)
...*Allow the router to route DNS queries to the local DNS* (OSX) server (which should be working anyway)
Message was edited by: blackbit

blackbit, Welcome to the discussion area!
It doesn't seem to be able to route dns requests to the internal network (verified using nslookup).
That is true.
This is a user to user discussion area so Apple will not see your suggestions here. Instead go to www.apple.com/feedback/airportextreme.html and send them to Apple.

Router keeps resetting??

Hi all,
I have a linskys wireless router which keeps resetting everytime I switch it off at the mains? It used to work perfectly but then we got a new modem because the old one broke and now I have to reinstall it (using the cd-rom) everytime I want to use my laptop.
I can't leave it plug into the mains all the time because the socket is used for otehr things and gets too hot.
Any ideas anyone???
Thanks

Well it seems that router is not configured properly …in that case you need to open routers set up page using http://192.168.1.1.
Let me know who your internet service provider is.

Airport Extreme (n) router keeps resetting.

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