Connecting a wireless HD back up thru airport extreme
do i need to connect my newly purchased WD MyBook ext HD to my mac book first and format before trying to connect thru my airport extreme?
Hello JimmyP58. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
do i need to connect my newly purchased WD MyBook ext HD to my mac book first and format before trying to connect thru my airport extreme?
The 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) will only "recognize" external USB HDDs formatted for HFS+ or FAT32 ... so unless your WD MyBook is formatted for NTFS, you won't need to format it with your Mac first.
However, if your plan is to use this drive for Time Machine backups, you may want to think twice before doing so as Apple DOES NOT support AirPort Disks for TM. (ref: Apple Support: Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Extreme AirPort Disks)
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"I have an ethernet cable in port 1 on my computer. That is configured manually to access ther office network."
Do you have a "real" IP address or a private (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x) IP address?
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Could not access it because their network security blocked you by intent, or had some unknown technical difficulty?
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Please answer the questions above when you can - I think solving the wired LAN issue will be easier if you are not being intentionally blocked. -
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Welcome to the support community group.
First, are you sure that your AirPort Extreme has been configured correctly and is properly connected to your modem?
Begin by telling us how you have things connected and if the Airport Extreme is replacing a previously owned router or is this an entirely new installation?
First be sure that your modem is working and properly connects you to the internet using an ethernet cable directly connected to your laptop. Once you're sure that's working, reset the AirPort to factory defaults by disconnecting it from power and pressing and holding in the small reset button on the back for 15 - 20 seconds while you reconnect it to power. Then turn everything off for 5 minutes. Connect the Airport to your modem with and ethernet cable to the Airport WAN port on the back (check the user guide to make sure you connect the cable to the correct port) then connect a second ethernet cable between the laptop and one of the LAN ports on the AirPort Extreme.
Then power up the modem first, wait 5 minutes and then power up the Airport, wait 5 minutes and finally power up your laptop.
Then run the airport configuration utility from your laptop. Since you're not using an Apple computer, be sure that all of your firewall, and virus blocking and checking software is disabled before you run the airport configuration utility. Once you run the utility, it should detect your AirPort and allow you to use the configuration wizard to set things up.
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Situation
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Setup
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All but one device have no trouble connecting
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Playstation Vita [wireless]
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my girlfriend's iphone 4
The problem occurs solely on my iphone 4.
Oddities
While me and my girlfriend have the exact same phone (not jailbreaked) and both just the latest version of iOS, hers works fine while my phone has this connection trouble.
The connection with the WLAN is never lost; I can communicate with other devices on the same LAN, it's just the internet that's not working for periods of time.
Workarounds
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Help required
I can't seem to locate what the problem is. It's easy to suggest it's my iphone that is somehow broken, but then it's fairly odd that the problem is limited to only my airport extreme WLAN network. Yet, if the problem is with the WLAN network than why is it the only device that has trouble connecting to it.
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Situation
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Setup
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Mac Pro 2 [wireless]
Playstation 3 [wired into airport extreme]
Mac Air [wireless]
my girlfriend's iphone 4s
my iphone 5
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Oddities
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Workarounds
My iPad is 4G so if I turn off wi-fi it works fine over 4g. NOTE: I HAD THE GENIUS BAR REPLACE THE IPAD LAST WEEK. NO CHANGE....
Help required
I can't seem to locate what the problem is. It's easy to suggest it's my iphone that is somehow broken, but then it's fairly odd that the problem is limited to only my airport extreme WLAN network. Yet, if the problem is with the WLAN network than why is it the only device that has trouble connecting to it.
Hopefully someone has a suggestion to what could be the problem and a way to solve it? BECAUSE I CHANGED OUT MY IPAD, I THINK IT MAY BE AIRPORT RELATED BUT CANNOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM EITHER.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=944334&tstart=0
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SigveHi
Thanks for Swift reply.
Yep - I in fact have two A1088 and one A1264
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