Airtunes, Airport Express no internet

I'm trying to just use my airport express to run Airtunes wirelessly. I'm not using it for internet but I can't seem to find a way to do this. I'm pretty sure you can do this but Airport Utility wants me to create a wireless internet connection. Can somebody give me a hand here?
Thanks

The easiest solution would be to have the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) configured to "Join a wireless network." In this case, you would have to have an existing wireless network the AX to join. If you do, I can provide step-by-step instructions on how to configure your AX for iTunes streaming.

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Hello everyone!
I have just purchased an Airport Express (with AirTunes), to connect to the internet wirelessly. I have the latest generation g4 iBook (before they switched to the new MacBook models), and so it came installed with an Airport card, software, etc.
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OK I checked on the forums, but I could not find anything quite specific it what I was trying to accomplish.
I recently got a 500GB Time Capsule. I changed my network around, which was based off of two Airport Express stations – on in the office hooked up to internet & printer, one in living room hooked up to sound system – and made the TC the main hub, connecting modem to it's WAN port and bridging the office AX via LAN port in bridged mode, sharing the living room AX as WDS. This way, I had the TC in N-only mode in 5ghz spectrum using wide channels for fastest performance. All this worked well.
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What i need is: To have the "Office AX" hooked up to the modem & printer, on 2.4ghz since it's the older .11g model, with the "Living Room AX" on that same network. Then the TC in 5ghz N-only bridged to the Living Room AX via LAN, so it can share the services (internet & airtunes) and still get high data transfer speeds to the laptops via the advantage of Line-of-sight, non-obstructed networking.
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You would be better off replacing your USB Modem with an ethernet modem wireless router and connecting your Macs to that network rather than use a Mac based software base station.
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Howdy all,
I have Internet Sharing enabled on my MacBook Pro running Leopard 10.5.4. I use a Sprint Sierra Wireless Aircard 597E modem to connect to the Internet.
I'm trying to get my Airport Express & Time Machine to recognize my MacBook Pro, or the other way around. Basically, I want to be able to access the Airport Express to wirelessly play music through a pair of speakers and be able to access the Time Machine for backups & accessing files.
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I'm not sure you're exactly following me on this one, though. Here's what I've discovered on my own for anyone else facing the same situation I am:
1. You /cannot/ use Airport Express while using Leopard's Internet Sharing.
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Summary:
I have 2 Airport Express base stations. One is downstairs with my cable modem and stereo - downstairs. The other is upstairs connected only to a stereo - upstairs. Is it possible to be connected to one Airport Express (downstairs) with my system and a different Airport Express (upstairs) with iTunes?
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Right now, I have to disconnect from downstairs - losing my internet connection - just so I can select upstairs in iTunes and stream music upstairs. Eventually when I want to check my email, or access the internet, I have to kill my streaming music going upstairs and connect back to downstairs. I thought for some reason that both downstairs and upstairs would appear in the drop-down in iTunes regardless of what network I'm connected to with my system. But it is now obvious that it just shows only the network I'm already connected to in the drop-down.
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Initially, I'm gonna say, "Yes." I've got a dual-band setup. I've got a AEBS (g-only) with two APEX (g-only) and an AEBS (5 GHz n-only). I can use AirTunes to stream music to both APEXs and my Apple TV.
So, if I understand your setup, Upstairs is only connected to a stereo and Downstairs is connected to your cable modem and a stereo. And your iTunes is either wireless or wired to the same network. iTunes should allow you to stream AirTunes to your computer, Upstairs, and/or Downstairs. If you want to stream to ALL three, simply select Multiple Speakers in the bottom right corner of iTunes.
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Oops! I assumed that you're running one (1) network. After reading the other post, I would agree. In your situation, you need to have one of the Expresses acting as the WDS main base station and the other needs to be set to participate/join which essentially extends the network.
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I'd like to use and airport express to create a wirelss network (and so use the internet) AND stream music to my stereo with air tunes - at the same time. Is this possible? So far, I have been able to create a wireless network (and use the internet) OR use the airport express to play music. But whenever my internet works, itune can't find the base station - claiming it "can't be found on the network?"
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I'm connecting to an ethernet jack (I'm at a college). It's not a cable modem or DSL. Is this the problem?
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My problem ended up being specific to the network I'm using. There is evidently another router on the ethernet system that was assigning my airport express an IP address (192. ...), rather than letting the network DCHP give me a direct IP address (something like 160. ...). The 192 address made it impossible for iTunes to see my express base station, but I was getting internet, passed through this other router.
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No, I do not want to join a network.
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