Help a newbie: Windows XP, Netgear WGT624 Wireless router & AE

I just installed a Netgear wireless router and am trying to setup the AE to play music on my home stereo. For some reason when I connect the AE to the outlet close to my living room home stereo, the Airport setup Assistant doesn't recognize my base station. I don't know what to do. I know my wireless router is setup correctly, but I can't figure out the AE setup process. Please help!

Do you have any wireless encryption activated on your Netgear Wireless Router? If so, you should disable it, then your wireless router should be able to connect to your AE. Then configure your AE to match your security settings of your wireless router, then finally re-activate the wireless security on your router.
(Make sure you select "Join an exisiting wireless network" when configuring the AE, enter the data carefully to match the security information in your router.
Once you re-activate your wireless security in your router and restart the AE, it should join your network.

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Hi,
I just purchased the newer Airport Express (new) and am having issues using it in client mode with my Netgear N150 wireless router. All I want to use it for is streaming itunes from my aluminum macbook to my home stereo system, wirelessly.
I have followed the instructions that came with the device. No luck. I have followed the instructions that describe plugging it into an ethernet cable here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1731
With the apple instructions linked above it would connect fine to my existing wireless network, using airport utility, with 'excellent' connection, but when I tried to switch in itunes to my device from my computer i get the pinning wheel and an 'unknown error' occurs.
I have setup a new wireless account and password on my router as desribed at this page, but do get confused when it tells me to use the hex key and $. Haven't worked that out yet. Any advice would be appreciated if this would help.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20041017233832771
At best, after hard resetting the device several times, and following the instructions above at macworld, it now finds the device but only plays one blip second of a song, flashing amber from solid green, sometimes playing a second blip of a song, then pausing the song and switching to a flashing amber. By restarting my computer or opening AirPort utiliy I am able to find it again, but it either only plays one second of a song and drops again or turns green and is not able to be found at all by itunes (the button doesn't show up in the menu).
This is the second airport I have tried in 2 years. I purchased a used one and had nearly the exact same issues with a linksys router. Then it would play an album but reset if a song was paused.I had to hard reset it nearly every time i wanted to stream from itunes to my stereo. I assumed it was broken and sent it back. Figured I 'd give it a new go around with a new unit since i just moved into a new house and am now shocked at how difficult it is to set up. I have never had this many issues with an apple device.
My questions:
1) How can I set this up with my existing router? What am I doing wrong?! Why is it so difficult?
2) If not possible, what routers are compatible? I would gladly get a new router in order to stream music to my stereo from ITunes.
thank you for any assistance. i am pulling my hair out.

Try temporarily disabling the Windows 7 firewall, and then, try accessing the AirPort with the AirPort Utility again.

Netgear WGT624 Wireless Router

AE works fine with Security Disabled. Want to go WEP. When I do, AE is not recognized in AE Admin Utility or cannot it be scanned. How do I set up encrypted network and get AE recognized?
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Of course it doesn't work. Those installation CDs are Windows only and you don't need them anyway.
All you need to do is log into the router and enable the wireless. Enter "http://192.168.1.1" in your browser's address line and you will be in the router's setup. If it asks for a password, the default username is "admin" and the default password is either "password" or "1234."
On the left side of the page is a nav bar and you should see under "Setup" an entry for "Wireless Settings." Click that and you get the options to enable it. Choose either WEP or WPA and create a password.
Then on your Mac, open sys prefs and select "network." Highlight "Airport" and then click "configure." Add your password that you created in your router and you are set. You call also highlight "network" and then click "assist me" and your Mac will walk you through the setup.
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Should I use a network switch and plug my Yamaha A/V receiver and Yamaha DVD into it, then into the wireless router? Then the net into the routers net port???

HT4199 I have a Netgear R6300 wireless router and a Yamaha RX-3020 A/V receiver. An app is available to run on an Ipad. I have to reboot every morning to get it all working. Can I just plug cat6 between them, when I do nothing works, please help

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When I had an old SpeedTouch USB Modem I could see the time I had been connected to the internet from a readout in the menu along the top of the monitor.
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I have discovered that by opening the Router Satus and clicking on "Connected Status" I can get a window displaying this info - but is there a quicker "automatic" way of doing it?
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Hi Ian,
Interesting one…
When you connect via a USB modem the computer is 'doing' the connecting using the modem so the computer has the 'time connected' status available locally. In the case of a router it is connected to the internet irrespective of the computer's status; on, off, sleep, or even, connected to the router. The only way you're going to get the info is from the router itself and, unless it has a setting whereby it will automatically 'inform' the computer of its connected time, I think you're going to have to carry on as you are.
I don't know that particular Netgear but used to have a different one until a thunderstorm fried it. I don't remember it having such a setting. My current Belkin certainly hasn't.
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How to setup netgear N150 wireless Router to apple tv ?

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setting up NETGEAR N150 wireless router to my Apple TV ?

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Here are some of the recommended setting from Apple. Maybe that will help.
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Good choice on the Airport base Station.
Especially, since that netgear was so hard to manage.
You may have gotten a spike during your storm, but you still didn't give us enough information to be useful
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Need help setting up Airport Express A1084 in Windows 7 via Netgear WNDR4500 wireless router

Hello All. I bought a used Airport Express A1084 off the net. Never had one before. My intention is to remotely control (via my iPhone using Apples Remote app or possibly XBMC) a "pc with music" and stream thru the AE connected to a boombox. I want to be able to take AE and boombox to the front yard, back yard, garage, or wherever my Netgear WNDR4500 will reach.
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Just so you are aware, the A1084 AirPort Express is a 802.11b/g wireless router that can only operate on the 2.4 GHz band. Regardless, it can be configured to join the wireless network provided by the Netgear as long as that network is configured to be backwards compatible with 802.11g clients. However, in the long run for performance, you do NOT want any non-"n" wireless clients connecting to your Netgear's network.
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Hello
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Hello,
My computer knowledge is limited, but I have a chronic issue when attempting to connect to public wireless networks, ie a coffee shop:
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