Connecting Aiport Express to mac. HELP!!
The mac finds the airport express base but doesn`t connect. It says about connecting the base to a modem via ethernet but our mac connects to the internet via the mobile telephone network with a usb stick so we`re a bit stuck. Any suggestions? Thanks
Welcome to the discussions!
You will need an adapter similar to this:
http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/cba250-cellular-broadband-adapter
Make sure that your USB stick is supported before you buy.
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My problem: after 5 hours, several beers, and lots of swear words, I cannot get the amber light to stop blinking.
My set-up is:
OS: XP Home, SP2 (I believe)
ISP: Qwest DSL
Wireless router: Qwest-branded Actiontec (usure of exact model)
Network Card: Linksys
Encryption: WEP
What I've done/what happens: I plug the AE into the wall and run the AE setup assistant. I tell it I want the AE to join an existing network (my network is called "Actiontec").
It seems like I go through all the steps correctly -- entering the WEP key I use to connect to my network, entering a password, etc. -- until the very end, when the setup assistant tries to reconnect to my Actiontec network. It can't.
I get a message that the AE was set up correctly, but because the setup assistant couldn't connect to my Actiontec network, it can't verify that the AE is working properly. At this time, as at all times, the amber light is still blinking.
I've gone through this twice now, and each time it somehow ruins my computer's connection to my network. I can't reconnect using the Wireless Zero Configuration, and have to re-install the Linksys network monitor software to reconnect to the internet. I then have to uninstall that software and re-enable Wireless Zero Configuration to reconnect to the Actiontec network.
When I do that, I can't find the Airport Express that I supposedly just configured. When I reset the AE, the setup assistant will find it again, but only when I do a re-scan.
I understand there may some special thing I need to do with WEP key, but I have no clue what that is.
I really want for this to work, as Airtunes seems to be the ideal solution for my music streaming needs (multiple rooms, plays all my DRMed AAC files, cheap) but I'm about at my wit's end. Save me.
Windows XPFigured it out. Sort of. Replying to my own post in the hopes it might benefit somebody else out there. I can make everything work fine if I turn off all security on my wireless network. If I swith to WPA-PSK security, I can set everything up and it appears to work fine, but when I stream music to my airport, it works for about 10 seconds and then I lose my connection to my network.
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I know this question has been asked several times: one airport express cannot be connected to USB nor NAS drive. But what about TWO airport express?
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LudovicMy question is the following: would it be possible to connect the ethernet port of Aiport express #2 to a NAS drive?
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SigveHi
Thanks for Swift reply.
Yep - I in fact have two A1088 and one A1264
I actually bought the new router because the Jensen
router always lost connection to the Airport Express after some hours or days. I
always needed to restart my Jensen to play music and that was driving my wife
mad. The hope was that the Extreme should fix this. Both A1088 have been set up
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Are the A1088 now useless?
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Please advise
Regards
Sigve -
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I would appreciate your suggestions.Hello everyone. I too have experienced the same problem Mary described starting on the same day she mentioned January 12. I have a G5 iMac, a G5 mini-mac, and a G4 laptop. They were all working fine but all have mostly the same problem now in that the G4 does not connect at all and the G5s connect once in a while after restarts but do not maintain the connection. In my case there was no power interruption. In fact, the G4 laptop was not even connected to the home power connection. My iPad2 and iPhone 4s wireless work fine and a wireless PC and Android tablet work fine as well. The G5 and G4 work fine on an ethernet connection. ISP tech support (AT&T u-Verse) was very generous with their time in trying to solve my problem although it was established early on that their connection and equipment was working fine and that the problem was with my computers. They walked me through a manual reset of all the particulars on IP addresses etc. so the problem was not related to that either. In the end ISP tech support concluded that the problem must lie with the Airport driver. For some reason it changes the IP addresses to an incorrect address so it cannot connect. Indeed when I tried the diagnostics on the G4 I got a window Pop-up that said an application had reset my settings. (In retrospect I seem to recall that I may have gotten that same message early on with the G5s but at that time I did not think much about it and went about trying to reset the settings but that process never concluded well) I think that the problem may be that there must have been an update of the Airport software that was not backward compatible with the G5 and older Macs. I mention all this for two reasons. First, perhaps someone out there who knows better than I do how to bring this to Apple's attention and perhaps they will address this. Second, I would be curious to know whether there is anyway one can return a configuration on Macs to some earlier time period (as you can on PCs) when everything worked and then leave it that way foregoing any subseqent upgrades or any subsequent apps?
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