Airport Extreme not letting my roommate's COMPAQ wireless connect

He has a COMPAQ wireless card, and can see my airport just fine -- once he connects to it, he gets "limited or no connectivity", thus, he cannot surf the internet -- how do I configure it so he can surf? I connect and surf just fine.
Right now here's my set up:
Cable Modem -> D-link DI-604 router
-> roommate's PC
-> Airport
-> Sorenson VP-100
I've tried
modem->airport->router
same situation

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Did you ever get an answer to this? Or figure out a solution? I have the same problem.

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Why does my airport extreme not recognize my cable modem anymore?

Have you tried resetting the modem? Power it down and let it rest a moment, then power it back up again.
Also, some ISPs require physically detaching their cable from the modem for it to be fully reset. Literally unscrew it from the modem. Try that, in conjunction with powering it down.
Don't do anything with your Extreme, other than powering it down too, in the event the modem reset does not help. Reconfiguring it may be necessary but this is not justified quite yet.

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Time Machine has been working just fine, but in the last week or two it has given up the ghost. I reset the connections to the drive, and it will basically save a few bytes of data and then hang.
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Since then, Apple has posted (as you have noted) that they DO NOT support Time Machine backups to AirPort Disks. As far as I know, they have not changed from that position and those who do these backups find that they become corrupted over time. Sorry, but it sounds like you just confirmed that for yourself.
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2) Are there any changes I can make to get this working again?
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Thanks Tesserax,
Your answer has confirmed my suspicions.
Option 1 from your suggested solutions is not a goer because the modem and Airport Extreme are in different parts of the house making it impractical to run a cable between the two devices.
I did try option 2 and bought a Netgear range extender, which according to Netgear it would work with my D-Link modem - not.
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Wi Fi problems
I have recently changed from a old netgear router to using a vigor 120 modem with airport extreme
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My iPhone also identifies the correct network but cannot connect
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I don't have any phones, so not aware of the options, but on a Mac to fix this problem it'd likely be...
Instead of joining it from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed. Before I went through network diagnostics and all of that stuff in system preferences, and then I tried the "Join Other Network" method, and now it works like a dream.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17028445#17028445
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I have a feeling you may be stuck in bridge mode there...
Factory reset the Extreme (so we don't second guess later), and re-set up the extreme using iOS5 on your iPhone.
Set up your Wi-Fi network with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac.
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I have an Airport Extreme which I'm using for a wireless network. (The wireless router is connected to a DSL modem.) Can I also plug in my iMac to one of the free ethernet ports on the Airport Extreme to connect to the Internet that way? Thank you.

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I recently discovered when trying to configure a new Airport Express to extend my wireless network over ethernet (roaiming network) that my Airport extreme is not consistently assigning the IP addresses within it's defined DHCP range (10.0.1.0 - 10.0.1.200). About half of the time devices on the network are getting a default 169.254.x.x IP address, which (in the case of my desktop) results in an 'self assigned IP' error within the network settings. I can reboot my apple desktop and the next time it gets a correct 10.0.1.1 address. Reboot again, it defaults back to a 169 address - and so on. It doesnt seem to make any difference if I connect my desktop directly to the Extreme, or, if I connect it through the GigE switch. And, every time I get a 'self assigned IP' I have no connectivity beyond the Extreme (no internet), and I'm forced to use my wireless/Airport connection.
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Thoughts?

I've been doing some research and it appears the 'self assigned IP' address is a common problem in the Apple support community. And, for what it's worth, it appears an inability to isolate or accurately troubleshoot the problem - by users or Apple tech support - is a recurring theme. I totally understand that no two home networks are exactly alike (different ISPs, switches, configurations, etc.), but, after being a die-hard PC user for my entire life I can honestly say I never encountered anything like this while using my PC. I'm not about to trash my Mac, but, the Apple 'ease of use' selling point is quickly losing it's lustre.
I got into this mess because I added a GigE switch to my network. Rather than buy a different switch (a tactic which assumes my problems are being caused by the switch) I'm inclined to buy another Airport Extreme and try daisy-chaining them together to overcome the reason I bought the GigE switch in the first place, which is not enough ethernet ports on the Extreme. That, or I'll spend a weekend in my attic re-wiring my home network to daisy-chain my two Express devices together instead of requiring individual connections to my router. My experience with Apple hardware thus far is that it prefers to 'play nice' with other Apple hardware over non-Apple hardware. It could be $100 error on my end (or, a weekend of not doing yardwork), but, I think it's the best shot. Other possible fixes, including manually assigned IP-addresses, put too much emphasis on software and network configuration - which (by my non-scentific analysis), are two areas even harder to troubleshoot.
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Post Script - Dear Apple: please find a way to significantly increase the number of ethernet ports on your Airport Extreme Router. Thank you.

Airport extreme not receiving an ip address

Hey i was wondering if anyone knew why my airport extreme is not receiving an ip address. Im connected to the internet through a cable modem connected to a airport extreme. I know the internet works because when i connect directly to my macpro book the internet works fine.......its just when i try to use my wireless network. Also its not my wireless card in my laptop because it works fine with other wireless networks. The other thing is i know my airport extreme works because it will connect for a while and then it wont connect at all until i reset everything (modem, computer, airport).....any suggestions?
I called apple support and they said it was a comcast problem and comcast said it was a problem with my airport extreme......figures huh?
macpro book 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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i think i found the answer while browsing the archives.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2202720&#2202720
sjones posted this:
FIXED!
Ok, after getting the usual run around with apple not being able to advise me about my ISP and my ISP not being able to advise me about apple some wonderful support person at my ISP let a bit of info slip: Comcast have decomissioned a load of bad DNS servers today.
If you use Comcast and cannot connect via wireless try this:
Open applications/utilities/airport admin utility
select your base station
click configure
click internet
whatever is typed into the dns servers input boxes, delete it
update your base station
and you are connected to the internet.
It makes perfect sense if you have this problem. You base station has been trying to connect to the WAN using a decomissioned dns server. All Comcast dns servers are now distributed dynamically via the dhcp server.
I am working again! Hope you are too.
I tried it, and was able to connect to my mini-mac for the first time. Phew! Now, I'm going to try the printer and my powerbook. I hope my tinkering with those does not tamper with the delicate balance of the universe.
Sjones, if you see this, THANK YOU!
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Hi all-
My Linksys 902.11b router finally died and our household is now completely Mac-based (all with Airport Extreme cards), so I decided to take the plunge and get an Airport Extreme.
2 of the machines on my home's network are doing fine with the router and are getting good speeds - iMac Dual 2.4 (10.5.1) - Both the wired and wireless connections are solid with this machine / Macbook Dual 2.0 (10.5.1) - Both the wired and wireless connections are solid with this machine as well.
I have a Macpro Quad 2.66 machine running 10.4.11. I cannot upgrade to 10.5 yet on this machine since it's being used in my recording studio business and there are known issues with some of my apps and 10.5 at the moment.
The Quad can see the network and has seemingly strong signal from the Airport Extreme BS, but DHCP reception is inconsistent (the machine often eds up using a self-assigned IP for some reason) and IP connectivity in general is inconsistent, even when an appropriate static LAN IP is manually setup. I can often get to a few webpages while using a manually config'd IP, but only with very slow DL speeds and then the connection quickly disappears and drops out entirely.
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I've also disabled IPv6 on all clients per some reading on the forums of possible issues.
Anyone know what the problem might be? Is it perhaps an issue because the Macpro's using 10.4.11?
FYI, I've also also got an extra Airport Express around that's not being used that could be used as a repeater/wired connection downstairs if broadcast strength is the issue, which seems somewhat unlikely to me. I'm not sure how to config the AExpress to work in this capacity though, so if anyone could point me to a tutorial I'd appreciate it very much.
Thanks in advance.
Lee

I just did some more testing using an app mentioned here on the forums, iStumbler. The app offered these details:
- Signal Strength is between 45%-56%
- Noise is between 24%-41%
- Freq = 2412
- No websites load despite it's seeing the router and saying we've joined it.
I also did a screen capture of the iStumbler's screen in case that's helpful. There were several bits of info I wasn't sure about.
Here's the screen grab: http://www.pbase.com/infiniteposse/image/91793322/original
Thanks again...

Airport Extreme not reconnecting to the Internet

Hello,
I have a problem with my brand-new Airport Extreme 802.11n Base-Station.
In my network there are 3 Windows-PC's with a wired connection, 1 MacBook Pro with 802.11n (also brand-new), 3 Windows-Laptops with 802.11g, an AppleTV with 802.11n (again, brand-new) and last but not least my iPhone 3G.
I set up the Airport Extreme basestation to connect to the Internet via my DSL-modem with PPPoE (the modem is a 25mbit-modem from Devolo and works flawlessly).
This works fine at first and all devices can access the Internet, the HDD connected to the basestation and so on... I was a happy user.
My Provider requires me to reconnect to the internet at least once every 24 hours.
Now when the connection reaches its 24 hour limit, it is disconnected by the provider.
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I have asked my ISP but they said it was an unknown issue to them and that they are not responsible if my things dont work the way I want them to...
And they are absolutely right in saying its my device that acts strange since the previous router (with integrated modem) didnt have this issue.
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A friend of mine works in an Apple-Store and will need to look at this later, but he is on holidays...

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