Airport extreme status in menu

This does not seem to affect the connection but the status bar and the time connected slides back and forth in the menu when the time disappears for about one second. It is only disturbing because it catches my eye when this happens and causes me to stop working.
I am also concerned that this has just started occurring and am worried that there may be a larger, underlying problem going on.
Is there any way to stop this and have it go back to a steady showing??
Need help

The card should be listed in System Profiler -> Network -> Airport
If it isn't, then yes, doesn't sound good. Try a PMU Reset as detailed in this document - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34885

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Airport Extreme status light is dark.

The unit is plugged in and the box is warm indicating it is receiving power. But, the status light is out. I unplugged the power and after about 1 minute, I plugged it back in and there is no change. Is there any way to recover this device or is it now dead?

If re-setting the device doesn't help, I would call Apple support.

Airport Extreme wireless stopped working/not recognized by Airport Utility

I have a 2nd gen Airport Extreme that's been working fine for years (the last time I changed the configuration was 2.5 years ago when I switched internet providers). Here's my problem:
Woke up this morning and tried to check the weather on my iPad Air. No internet connection.
Looked at Airport: light is green, all cable modem lights are normal
Tried Airport Utility on iPad: initially couldn't connect, then asked for a password; never got any status/config info
Tried Airport Utility on my iMac, which has a direct ethernet connection to the Airport: same as on iPad
Note: Airport Extreme status LED was green throughout this
Next:
Unplugged Airport, then reattached power. Now LED is blinking orange (after startup); still doesn't appear in Airport Utility on iMac
iPad no longer recognizes my wifi; my wireless network is not detected at all by any of my wireless devices (ID doesn't show up in list of available networks)
Switched ethernet cables for connection from iMac to Airport: still not detected in Airport Utility
After this I did the factory reset (held down reset button); nothing changed, still not detected in Airport Utility
And then I had to leave for work.
Does this sound like my Airport has gone bad? The fact that the wifi no longer seems to work at all and it's not detected in Airport Utility makes me think it has.

Please start another post for your question, as you do not have a 2nd Gen AirPort Extreme...and...you are also asking about extending the network.
Include information about "how" the AirPort Express connects to the Time Capsule.....wired connection?....wireless connection?
What operating system are you using on the computer that is used to administer the AirPort Express?

Bridge Mode or DHCP for two Airport Extreme via ethernet?

I have Two airport extreme setup in a six floor brownstone home in New York City. My verizon internet router is set up on the top floor with an airport extreme, my basement has the second airport extreme connected via ethernet wired from the top floor. I use DHCP from verizon internet. Do I set up my two airport extreme Bridge mode or DHCP?
Im having issues with my iphone not connecting through my basement airport extreme. Airport extreme status looks fine, green light and in working order.
Please help.

Do I set up my two airport extreme Bridge mode or DHCP?
Bridge Mode. But, you don't have to worry about this, since the configuration wizard will do this for you automatically.
Im having issues with my iphone not connecting through my basement airport extreme.
Suggest that you work your way through the iOS troubleshooting guide linked just below.
If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won’t connect to a Wi-Fi network - Apple Support
For further assistance with iPhone issues, please post in the iPhone support forum linked just below.
Using iPhone

Airport utility doesn't see airport extreme

i bought an Airport Extreme to replace a Linksys router that works but with a weak range.
I disconnected my Linksys router and plugged the cables into the Airport Extreme as per the instructions (btw, i don’t know why Apple has to use the silly little icons instead of labeling the WAN connection ‘Internet,’ but whatever.) I plugged in the power. The Link light for the connection came on.
The Airport Extreme status light glowed amber.
I ran the Airport utility on an iPad. It says it doesn’t see any Airport Extreme.
The Airport Extreme started flashing amber.
I read the troubleshooting instructions. I powered down the cable modem. I pushed the reset button on the Airport Extreme. I unplugged everything, plugged it in again. I tried the Airport utility on an iPhone. It said it didn't see any Airport Extreme. I checked the Airport utility on the iPad. Still didn't see anything.
I plugged my Linksys router back in and everything works.
Huh?

Power off the cable modem for 5-10 minutes to allow it to reset. It will not recognize the AirPort until it resets correctly.
Connect the Ethernet cable from the cable modem to the WAN "O" port on the AirPort
Please go back to the home screen on the iPad
Tap Settings (gear icon)
Tap WiFi
Just under the heading of Setup a New AirPort Base Station, a listing of AirPort Extreme should appear.
Does it? If yes,
Tap on AirPort Extreme to start the setup "wizard" and follow the prompts.

Have 2 airport extreme base stations connected in chain. Airport utility shows slave unit without power. However, power is on slave unit, but status lights do not show up at all. Small green lights at each back port blink. Anyone have any ideas?

Have 2 airport extreme base stations connected in chain. Airport utility shows slave unit without power. However, power is on slave unit, but status lights do not show up at all. Small green lights at each back port blink. Anyone have any ideas?

Unfortunately, you are describing the symptoms of an AirPort Extreme with a failing (or failed) internal power supply.
As a last resort, try a Factory Default Reset on the AirPort Extreme as follows:
Power off the AirPort by pulling the power cord
Wait a minute or two
Hold in the reset button first, and keep holding it in for an additional 8-10 seconds while you simultaneously plug the power back into the AirPort
Release the reset button and allow a full minute for the AirPort to restart
Now try to configure the AirPort again. If you continue to see the same symptoms as before, the AirPort will need to be replaced.

How to remove airport status from menu

Hi,
due to an error within my brain.app I forgot to switch off the "show airport status in menu" before using the migration assistent.
But the new Mac has no airport, Doh!
Now I am unsable to remove the icon from the finder menu. Am I?
Any hints how to remove the icon?

Glad it worked! Thanks for the !

Airport Extreme Blinking Amber But Internet Working Fine Multiple Status Messages

I have Airport Extreme 5.6.1. It started blinking amber showing Airport did not have a valid Internet Address. I was concerned about with changing anything if I could still connet. Checked a forum and it suggested to go to sheck status and see the problem. I did and now I have a new mesage. No DNS server address. I am hesitant about doing anything because if I do and lose internet connection I am really up a creek without a paddle.

Just to update. I unplugged my modem for a short time. When it powered up the light was green on my Airport Extreme.

I have a new Airport Extreme and an old airport express. I am getting an amber light on the new Extreme and a green light on the Express. I have internet no problem but the status light is blinking amber

I have a new Airport Extreme and and old airport express. I am getting an amber status light on the Extreme and a green light on the Express. The Extreme is blinking amber all the time.
I have internet and everything seems to be working.
I have reset and pulled the power cord on both the extreme and the internet block
How do I make it Green?

If things seem to be working OK, but the amber light is flashing......the AirPort Extreme has a message for you. To see what that might be......
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the AirPort Extreme icon
Click on the amber dot in the small window
It might be a message that a firmware update is available for your AirPort Extreme.

HT4907 i am trying to set up an airdisk that is connected to my parents airport extreme, though next to my iCloud account details i get a yellow status light and can't get a hold on the airdisk being connected to an other internet connection..what should

i am trying to set up an airdisk that is connected to my parents airport extreme,
though next to my iCloud account details i get a yellow status light and can't get a hold on to the airdisk when i'm being connected to a different internet connection..what should i do?
sharing is enabled and i entered the right account details.
the disk shows up connected to my parents network, but i want to access it from my place as well

Encryption wouldn't matter except for Wifi.
While 10.2 might help, there's not much you can do on the Internet these days with less than 10.4.11
Tiger Requirements...
To use Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, your Macintosh needs:
    * A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
    * Built-in FireWire
    * At least 256 MB of RAM (I recommend 1GB minimum)
    * DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
    * At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools (I recommend 20GB minimum)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+tiger+retail+10.4
See Tom's, (Texas Mac Man), great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15305521#15305521
Or Ali Brown's great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10381710#10381710
As far as Memory, that's sort of easy, find your eMac here...
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Models.cfm?Family=emac&sType=Memory
As far as Hard Drive, it's not easy to replace the Internal drive, I'd maybe suggest an external Firewire drive to boot from...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MAU4S7500G16/

Airport Extreme 802.11n Status Light

I have an airport extreme (802.11n) and the status light stays green for 5 seconds and turns amber for a fraction of a second then repeats the process. It still gives internet access to computers and remote/relay basestations what can the problem be? And I cant view or change settings using airport utility.

Oh and also the airport wont hard reset when I press the reset button the status light rapidly flashes amber but when finished restarting it just goes back to blinking amber every 5 seconds

Connecting an USB drive is causing the status light to turn yellow on 2013 Airport Extreme

I recently purchased a new Airport Extreme ac to improve wifi performance in my house. It has been working fine. Today I decided that I would try to connect one of my USB backup drives to the Airport Extreme. As soon as it is connected, the status light goes yellow. It appears to be trying to read the drive, which has only a timemachine backup folder on it. But the status light never comes back to green.
Here is the System Information for the USB:
INIC-1610P      :
Capacity:          500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk1
Product ID:          0x1e40
Vendor ID:          0x13fd (Initio Corporation)
Version:           1.07
Serial Number:          0010101E40000000
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Initio
Location ID:          0xfd130000 / 5
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          2
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
Volumes:
disk1s1:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name:          disk1s1
Content:          EFI
MyBook:
Capacity:          499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
Available:          162.73 GB (162,727,297,024 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk1s2
Mount Point:          /Volumes/MyBook
Content:          Apple_HFS

Well, I unplugged the drive from my laptop and plugged it in to the airport extreme again and this time it stayed green and I now see the drive in the airport utility under partitions. Very odd. Going to try restarting the airport to see if it will go green.

I'm trying to access my airport extreme to make port forwarding changes by using the default IP 10.0.1.1 but I get no login menu. Where is my login menu?

I'm trying to access my airport extreme by using IP 10.0.1.1 but I get no log in screen. Where is my login screen?

Download and install......
AirPort Utility 5.5.3 for Windows - Support - Apple.......assumes that you are running XP SP3
or
AirPort Utility 5.4.2 for Windows - Support - Apple......assumes that you running XP SP2
and
Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2 - Support - Apple
Expect the Windows Firewall to block the connection attempt between the application and the AirPort, so you will likely have to turn it off to configure the AirPort.
The anti-virus program and Microsoft Security Essentials can do the same thing.

How do I connect my Airport Extreme 802.11n to Epson 645 Printer?

I can't figure out how to connect my Airport Extreme 802.11n to my Epson 645 Printer. Can anyone help me? Thanks!

You may want to try reinstalling Mavericks. Airport Utility installed by Mavericks may no longer connect to your older AEBS (though I've not heard that.) Installing the Old AirPort Utility (Version 5.6) on Mountain Lion | frank.is.
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and
     after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears.
     Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
     Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
     Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Select ReinstallLion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from
     the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
     Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is
                three times faster than wireless.

Airport Extreme Network Stability Issues

My airport base station is within cord reach of the only working jack in my house (old house). My den is down the hall, my boarder's down in the basement.
We've been suffering from pretty bad connection issues, and there doesn't seem to be any clear start to them and nothing I do makes it better. Within the last couple of months, I dropped the "static IP" option from my ISP (DSL cable), got a new modem (which the techs at my ISP have tweaked) and I'm wondering if I need to tweak the settings on my Airport due to this changed set-up? What happens is that randomly, the download settings drop to almost 0, the computer almost disconnects (the status bar starts to scroll), then in 30 seconds or a minute, its back up to normal. Yesterday, I tried reverting to the last firmware update (like another recent poster, I didn't get notice of that update until relatively recently), and that seemed that it might have worked, but then back to tricks this aft.
The problem is clearly with the Airport. It's not the computer, as we've got two completely different systems (a PC of some sort and my iMac) accessing it. I've also hooked the iMac straight to the modem and the signal is just fine from there.

CompostAngel wrote:
my ISP (DSL cable)
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
This is just a side comment unrelated to your problem, but usually "DSL" and "cable" are two entirely different things, with DSL service being provided over a phone line and cable being provided over a coax cable TV wire.
got a new modem (which the techs at my ISP have tweaked) and I'm wondering if I need to tweak the settings on my Airport due to this changed set-up?
If it works at all I wouldn't think so.
What happens is that randomly, the download settings drop to almost 0, the computer almost disconnects (the status bar starts to scroll), then in 30 seconds or a minute, its back up to normal.
Could you explain what you mean by "the download settings" and "the status bar"?
I'd launch AirPort Utility, enter "manual setup" mode with your AirPort Extreme, pull down the Base Station menu, select "Logs and Statistics", then select the "Wireless Clients" tab. Watch the graph as well as the signal and noise values in the table, particularly during times when you're having connection problems. What you see may give a hint as to the nature of your problems.

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