Cannot connect my Macbook air to my Airport Express

Unable to get my new Macbook Air to connect tmy existing wifi that uses Airport Express. It just timesout after about 5 seconds. My mew iphone connected straight away.

connect is in the eye of the beholder
connect can be the appletv being able to access the shared itunes lib of the macbook air if the macbook air's firewall is set to allow it and if itunes on the macbook air is set to share the itunes lib at all
connect can be the macbook air being able to use airplay to play music out of the appletv's speakers as one would an airplay express
or airplay mirror which mean displaying the macbook air's screen on the tv using appletv
if the device is supported in that way you can read here
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5404

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