Computers can't locate Airport Station

Very wierd I am getting a signal since Im online but my little signal strength bar at the top of the screen reads zero, if I try to join my network I get the "there was an error logging on to your network" message no matter how many times i try. Same message if I try airport admin utility to locate or update the software. Ive done everything I can think of except reset the airport express but Im worried if I do that then I will lose my internet connection
help... please

Hi Simon_p,
Open System Preferences>network preferences> what networks appear? Is there a Airport network? Is there a Ethernet network?
If there is a Airport network is there a green light or a red light?
If you have your ethernet cable plugged into your computer and your Ethernet Network appears first in the order of Networks then you are not access the net through your Airport Network.
let me know what you find out...

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Can't locate AirPort express

I have a brand new MacBook, and a 'new' refurbished AirPort Express both of which I just got at the beginning of July. After initially receiving the Express, it took a half day but I set it up and it had been working with no problem. Then last week, a window popped up and asked if I wanted to change my security settings to WAP2 Personal, I said yes not really knowing the difference. After that, I lost my connection. I've been trying to re-set up my Express, but whenever I go to AirPort Utility, it says that there it can't locate a device (I'm 2 feet from the Express). I have tried resetting the device multiple times, I've also reset my modem multiple times, still it can't locate the Express. HELP!!!

mandapanda08, Welcome to the discussion area!
Then last week, a window popped up and asked if I wanted to change my security settings to WAP2 Personal...
That is an extremely strange dialog to get. Are you certain that is the dialog you saw?
I think the only way that you would see that dialog is if your Mac couldn't detect your network and was trying to connect to a different wireless network.

Windows XP computers can't see Airport via Ethernet connection

I have a iMac G5 hooked up to a new Airport Extreme base station.
I have two other old Apples with which Airport Express Setup 4.0 doesn't work.
Therefore, I am trying to set up my two Airports using a Windows computer so that they can be used as remote music devices.
Neither of them are seen by the Windows computer unless I completely reset them. And even then, it is intermittent.
When starting Airport, I get the following message:
"Windows is not allowed to manage wireless networks on this computer." However, in Network Connections, properties of my wireless connection state Windows does manage them.
Following an Aiport reset, Airport Express Assistant asks me for the password for the network, "name not available," I enter "public," but then get the following error following the message, "Reading from Base Station..."
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Attempting to access the Airport using Airport Admin Utility, I see the Airport, but when making modifications to the password and join an existing Airport network, I click UPDATE, the Airport restarts, only to be invisible again to both Airport Express Setup and Airport Admin Utility.
The same problem is happening on two different XP computers and with two different Airports.
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Can't locate base station using Mac or windows

I just bought a airport extreme to replace my ageing linksys. I set it up exactly per instructions. I got the light to glow green. However, none of my devices can locate the base station on airport utility.

If you plug the new base station in the password is "public" and you should be able to find it at 192.168.0.1. Open a broswer and type in that address and you should get a login to set it up.
You need to plug into it direct with a cable if you can't sign in to the wireless network.
DB

HT4587 I can't locate airport express icon in itunes to connect my remote speakers wirelessly, can anyone help please?

Can anyone help please? I am trying to connect my remote speakers to my i-tunes library using Airport Express. Everything is connected and working using mt OS device (Ipod Touch 5th Generation) that works fine. I have tuned on home sharing and it says in itunes preferences that I am paired but according to the light on the airport express base station I am not connected to my existing wi-fi network. I cannot find the itune airplay icon anywhere in itunes nor can I find the network link by hovering my pointer of the network connections as suggested in the instructions that came with airport express. Would apprecaite some help please you can give. - thank you.

hmmmmm.
i'm not trying to get rid of you here, but it might be worth also checking-in/reposting over at the Airport for Windows forum. when Airtunes things get sticky, i generally defer to iFelix or RJ in WI, and they spend a lot more time over there than they do here.
(traffic is so heavy in here at the moment that this thread might be buried out of sight before an AirTunes guru gets to see you.)
here's a link through to the Airport for Windows forum:
Airport for Windows

Computers can't detect Airport Express after configuration

I've been using AE devices since 2006 and have never seen what I'm about to describe.
A couple of months ago I setup an older AE at a friend's house. He wanted to print wirelessly, so I set up his AE to join his wireless network and connected it his printer via USB. All his computers (lots of Macs, one Windows 7 PC with airport utility 5.6.1 plus Bonjour) saw the printer through Bonjour and printed just fine.
Until last week, when no computer was able to see the printer through Bonjour.
The light on the AE was solid green. I thought unplugging the AE and plugging it back in would solve the problem. It didn't.
So I reset the AE and reconfigured it from scratch using the Windows machine (as I had done the first time two months earlier). The configuration went well, but Airport Utility on the PC would not detect the AE after initial setup.
So I thought the AE was defective. The next day I brought one from my house (a first generation N one). This one was working fine at my house, so I knew it wasn't defective.
I reset it and reconfigured it with Airport Utility on the PC. Again, after initial configuration, Airport Utility would not detect the AE.
"It's the PC's fault," I thought. Let's use a Mac.
I fired up the latest Airport Utility on a 2011 iMac with 10.8.4. It would not see it. So I reset it again and reconfigured it from scratch. It found it. Great.
So I plugged the AE near the printer and connected it to it via USB. Went back to the Mac, added the printer via Bonjour and printed a test page. It printed the page, but lost connection to the printer immediately after. It never reestablished connection.
I took a Macbook with 10.6.8. Fired up Airport utility and set the laptop near the printer with the AE connected to it. It could not find the AE.
I then reset and reconfigured the AE one more time, this time using the laptop. And again, after initial configuration, the laptop could not find the AE.
In all these instances, the light on the AE was solid green after initial, successful configuration.
I then purchased the latest AE (the dual band N one), went through the same steps, with the same results. No computer can see it.
What gives? I retested all these AEs at my house, and they work just fine.
Nothing has changed at my friend's house since his AE was working last week. What can possibly cause the problem?

Fixed it. It was not an Apple problem. I just had to cycle the wireless access points.

TS1398 ipad2 can't locate airport express

I am using an Ipad2 and attempting to connect via wi-fi to the internnet. Wi-fi router is an airport express, but the ipad2 cant "find" or locate the wireless
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Are you using a reasonably recent AirPort Express? Is its firmware up to date? Have you gone through the "Firmware Updates" article linked to the article you attached above? Here's the link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1218
Make sure your AirPort Express is up to date.

Computers can't see airport express

I have a wireless home network with a PC & an iBook connected to a cable modem via a belkin router. The network had been working fine, but I just replaced my modem and am now unable to see my airport express wirelessly. I have unplugged and restarted everything and reset the airport express. I was able to reconfigure it using an ethernet connection and the configuration seemed to work fine while wired, but once I remove the cable, my computer can no longer see the connection (although happily sees about 10 other networks in my building). The green light is on the airport. Any suggestions would be greatly welcome.
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OK, I found the answer on www.girr.org/macstuff/airport_linktips.html. There was a link on this site to an airport management suite that I downloaded. Using this I cabled to the airport and was able to correct the WDS setting to allow wireless clients and change my wireless channel. Maybe this will at least help someone else with a similar problem.

Just got a used airport base station. Set it up and getting wif signal. when I try to hook up on a computer it asks for a security key. where can I locate key?

just got a used airport base station. Set it up and getting wif signal. when I try to hook up on a computer it asks for a security key. where can I locate key?

If you mean the hexidecimal equivalent of the alphanumeric password, then you can find this via the AirPort Utility, as follows:
AirPort Utility > Select the AirPort > Manual Setup
On the AirPort Utility's menubar select Base Station > Equivalent Network Password

I currently have a D-Link DI-604 broadband router with windows computers. How can I add wifi to the network for use with ipad? Can I use AirPort Express?

I currently have a D-Link DI-604 broadband router with windows computers. How can I add wifi to the network for use with ipad? Can I use AirPort Express?

Yes. You can directly connect an 802.11n AirPort Express Base Station (AXn) using an Ethernet cable. The AXn would then just need to be configured as a bridge to allow the D-Link to continue to provide both NAT & DHCP services for all network clients connected to either router.
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Hi Brian,
I'm a big fan of just "starting over." Somehow, a glitch got introduced. Rather than digging around and trying to find the glitch, and possibly introducing more in the process, why not start over? (If you like figuring glitches out, ignore the following...)
Turn off airport on your g4. Delete references to your network in "Network Preferences" and in Keychain access in utilities. Reconfigure your wireless router to factory defaults. Restart your wireless configuration. Once all computers are up and running wirelessly, reintroduce wireless security.
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TA25981 I have set up my base station, no problem, but I can not locate my set up assistant to complete the process to work with our iPads. It is Mac OS X 10.7.2. Anyone help?

I have set up my ariport extreme base station, no problem, but I can not locate my airport assistant to continue to work wirelessly with our ipads. When you click on the airport base station, it only shows the info about the base station. The assistant will not come up. Can anyone help? It is a Mac OS X 10.7.2.

Not sure what you mean by "assistant".
Assuming that you have set up the AirPort Extreme to broadcast a wireless network, you need to connect to that wireless network from each iPad or other wireless device.....just like you would connect to a network at the coffee place or bookstore.
On an iPad....
Tap Settings on the home screen
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Airport Utility can't find Airport Express after setting up as repeater station

I wanted to extend my 2Wire-based wireless network into a specific room that never seems to be able to pick up the signal, and found the following instructions on how to do so on Apple's website:
(note: these instructions were submitted by another user in response to a question as to whether or not an Airport Express could be used as a repeater station for non-Airport Extreme-based wireless networks - linked here http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MB321LL/A?pqid=QY4CAJJC7KFTTD KYH72DKPXF4CAUA9D4J).
Yes, you can do this two ways: If you can connect your airport express to your router via ethernet, then you will perform the following steps in the airport utility:
1. Select your airport express.
2. Select manual set up.
3. Under Wireless, select Participate in a WDS network
4. Enter your network name, radio mode, channel, and security
5. Under WDS, select WDS main
6. Check wireless clients
7. Add the MAC address of the router
8. Click update
That's it
Now, if you connect your airport express to your router wirelessly, all the steps are the same except for step 5. In this step, select WDS remote instead. Everything else is the same.
I followed those instructions exactly with my Airport Express and, after restarting, the amber light is flashing on and off continuously and the Airport Utility can't find the Airport Extreme base station. What the heck went wrong here?

Update:
I restarted the laptop I used to set up the AX as well as pushing the "reset" button on the AX (first time - pressed it for 1 second, Second Time - pressed and held for 15 seconds then let go). The Utility still isn't recognizing the base station.
I also upgraded the Utility's software to 5.5.3 right before I went through these steps, and now it's not recognizing the base station. ARGH.
Update #2: I plugged the AX into my laptop with an ethernet cable and the utility STILL can't detect it. This is ridiculous.
Update #3: Not 30 seconds after update #2, it FOUND the **** AX >.< I'm updating the firmware, but I still can't get it to work as a repeater station if I have to plug it into my laptop all the time JUST to get the Utility to recognize that yes, Virginia, there IS an Airport Extreme.
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How to make sure I'm the only one who can manage my airport base station using airport utility?

I know we have to use the Airport Utility application to manage the Airport base station in order to create a new network, creating the SSID and chosing the encryption mode and setting the password but how I could be sure I'm the only one who have access to those settings? A user of my network can install the Airport Utility application and change those settings. With other routers like D-Link, to have access to the settings you need to know the admin password to modify the settings. I can't figure out how we can do this with Airport Extreme base station. It's maybe obvious but I'm in the cloud for the moment.

You can set a base station administrator password in order to limit who can administer the base station. With AirPort Utility v6.x, you can set this password on the Base Station tab.

My airport express can't locate a dns server

I am unable to connect to the Internet, with my Mac,iPad or iPhone, even with the light green. I used my airport utility and it can't find a Dns server.
I called my Internet provider and they said everything looked alright on there end.
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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.

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