How to use Aiport Express with Verizon FIOS Actiontec MI424WR

The Airport Express won't connect to the Actiontec MI424WR FiOS router when it's set to use WPA2 encryption.
I figured this out after a couple of hours of resetting the Airport Express and Googling the issue.
It's annoying to have to "downgrade" to WPA but other than leaving the network unprotected, that's the only way to make them work together.
So on the Actiontec, use WPA TKIP & AES (make sure both TKIP & AES are selected as AES alone won't work either) encryption.
On the Airport Express pick WPA/ WPA2 Personal.
The Pass-Phrase should obviously be the same.
I hope this helps someone by showing-up in Google searches for people.

Thanks for your post.
Apple does note that the AirPort Express cannot join "other" networks using WPA2, but it's buried in the fine print of footnote #3 on the spec sheet, so most folks are going to miss that bit of information.

Similar Messages

  • Fixed wifi problems with Verizon FIOS' Actiontec MI424WR router

    My FIOS router was setup for 64bit WEP with support for b and g. It had worked great for years with my iPhone, iPod touch, and other computers in my home. Then came the iPad. The iPad would lose the connection, prompt me for the password, etc. several times per day. I first tried changing to g only support. It didn't help. Then I changed to WEP 128 and all of the frustrating problems appear to have gone away.
    Hope this helps some of you love your iPad more because I was really starting to hate mine...

    I went into the router and set a static IP address for the ipad (in the low 200's dont use the 100's its for your fios cable dvr's). You will first have to shutdown the ipad (not just sleep). Then delete the ipad from the connection list in the fios router. The instructions from the fios router pdf are below. I am on 24 hrs and even with wep and no fixed channel I have had no problems.
    To define a new connection with a fixed IP address:
    1. Click New Static Connection in the DHCP Connections screen. The “DHCP Connection Settings” screen appears.
    2. Enter a host name for this connection.
    3. Enter the fixed IP address to assign to the computer.
    4. Enter the MAC address of the computer’s network card.
    5. Click the OK to save changes.
    ☞ Note: A device’s fixed IP address is actually assigned to the specific
    network card’s MAC address installed on the network computer.
    If this network card is replaced, the device’s entry in the DHCP Connections list must be updated with the new network card’s MAC address.
    To remove a host from the table, click the appropriate “Delete” icon in the Action column.

  • Can't video chat with iChat 6.0.1 with Verizon Fios modem,MI424WR.

    Can't video chat with iChat 6.0.1 with Verizon Fios modem, MI424WR. Get error "Router type is Restricted, Port Restricted, Symmetric, or Unknown." How do I configure the router? I have allowed iChat incoming connections in my Mac (10.7.2) firewall. GChat and Skype work fine.
    Thanks

    Hi.
    You have to configure Port Forwarding on the Verizon FIOS Modem Router for iChat.
    http://support.actiontec.com/doc_files/MI424WR_Rev._G_User_Manual_30.16.0_v1.pdf
    Excerpt from pages 109 & 110:
    "To set up basic port forwarding:
    1. Click the arrow next to “IP Address forward to or select from menu” to display  a menu and either enter the IP address of the item to port forward from, or choose an item from the drop-down menu (choose your machine by host name, since the internal ip address changes from time to time, after the lease time expires).
    2. Click the arrow next to “Application to forward...” and select a pre-configured application from the drop-down menu (if iChat is not present in the list, you'll have to set up Advanced Port Forwarding).
    3. Click Apply. The new port forwarding rule appears in the “Applied rules” table at the bottom of the screen. "
    " To set up advanced port forwarding (custom ports):
    1. Click the arrow next to “Application to forward...” and select Custom Ports from the drop-down menu.
    Con
    2. Enter the host name (from the drop-down list) or local IP address of the computer providing the service in the “Specify IP” text box. Note that only one local network computer can be assigned to provide a specific service or application.
    3. Click Advanced.
    4. Select the Internet protocol to be provided from the “Protocol” drop-down list.  Depending on the protocol selected, additional options appear in the screen.
    5. Select the connection with which this port forwarding rule will be active from the “WAN Connection Type” drop-down list.
    6. To select a port to forward communications to (this is optional), select “Specify” from the “Forward to Port” drop-down list, then, in the text box that appears, enter the port number. If no port is identified, select “Same as
    Incoming Port.”
    7. If this port will be active all the time, select “Always” from the “Schedule” drop-down list. If the rule will only be active at certain times, select “User Defined” and click Add. Then, add a schedule rule (for more details about
    schedule rules, see the “Advanced Settings” chapter of this manual).
    8. If source and destination ports need to be specified, select Specify from the drop-down menu list (by clicking on the appropriate arrow), then entering the port numbers.
    9. Click Apply to save the changes. The new port forwarding rule appears in the “Applied rules” table at the bottom of the screen."
    Ports used by iChat
    Good Luck.

  • How to use Aiprort Express with iMac DV

    Hello,
    I'd like to use an Airport Express with an old iMac DV SE 400mhz. It's running Tiger. All I need it to do is run Airtunes. And I need a solution that doesn't require me to scan eBay for an old airport card, because I need to try to make this happen in the next couple days. Any ideas?
    Thanks for any suggestions.

    Do you currently have an Ethernet network? If so, could the AirPort Express (AX) be connected to this Ethernet network? If so, there is no need to make your iMac DV wireless at all. It can stream music over Ethernet to the AX.
    router <-+-> iMac
    .........|-> AX
    If you do need to make your iMac DV wireless but don't want to get an AirPort card, you will want an Ethernet wireless adapter. Examples of Ethernet wireless adapters are the Linksys WET11, Linksys WET54G, and the Buffalo Technology WLI-TX4-G54HP bridge.

  • Setting up New Airport Extreme with Verizon Fios Actiontec MI-424-WR Modem

    I just purchased the new Airport Extreme to run my network at home. My internet provider is Verizon Fios. With their installs, they use an Actiontec MI424WR modem/router. I would like to disable the router part of the Actiontec and use the AEBS for my router. Any advice on how to accomplish this? Thanks.

    ufbrad24, Welcome to the discussion area!
    FiOS does not require a modem. The Actiontec device is a router only.
    You could replace the Actiontec completely with the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS). Many have discovered that this can be done by a quick call to Verizon.

  • HELP!! USING Aiport Express with PPTP!!

    Hy!
    I bought Airport Express and i´m using an austria provider which is using PPPtP connection.
    So what can i do that AE works??
    Thanks Rene´

    Do you have only one computer or many that are connecting to the AirPort Express (AX)?
    If you only have one, try this:
    Configure the AX so that the option to distribute IP addresses is DISABLED.
    Save the settings and close the AirPort Admin Utility.
    On your Mac, open Internet Connect.
    Click VPN (PPTP).
    Choose Edit Configurations from the Configuration pop-up menu.
    Choose None from the Encryption pop-up menu.

  • How to use time capsule with Verizon wireless modem

    What is best setup for TC and Verizon's Ultraline wireless modem.  Thanks!

    Bridge the TC..
    I am assuming this is cable internet.. not wireless.
    Just leave the Verizon doing what it is doing.. with the TC bridged you just plug it into the modem with ethernet.
    To bridge the TC go to dhcp and NAT page for v6 utility.. or Internet tab for v5 utility and pick the connection sharing off bridge mode.

  • Configuring E3000 to work with Verizon FIOS actiontec cable modem / router

    Hi all, I've read knowledgebase Article ID: 3733, which seems to get me on the right track, but the router menu screens shown do not match the E3000's screens. 
    I have a FIOS cable modem / router in the basement that I need to keep since it drives all the FIOS guide and on demand features. I have a NAS drive in the basement and all the house hard wiring runs to the basement as well. 
    I wanted wireless n and a better location for the wireless access point, so I bought the E3000 and put it in the kitchen on the main floor
    When I wired a numbered LAN port on the E3000 to a numbered LAN port on the ActionTec and brought  the router up all worked fine, but quickly found that wireless clients could not see the NAS.  I suspect that this is because the E3000 uses a different address range(192.168.0.1)  than the actiontec (http://192.168.1.1/).  I ended up moving the NAS upstairs to temporarily fix this, but my wife would like me to get it out of her kitchen ASAP :-)
    I tried just about every setting imaginable (setting IP of E3000 actiontec range, disabling NAT, disabling DHCP, enabling/disabling RIP) to get the E3000 to simply become a wireless gateway and wired switch and let the actiontec do the routing but never could get it to work. 
    Could someone post a version of Article ID: 3733 that works for the E3000???
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Press and hold the reset button on E3000 router for 30 seconds. Release the reset button and wait for 30 seconds. Power cycle E3000 router.
    Now connect one computer to Ethernet port 2 on the router ( Do not connect the cable between modem and E3000 )
    open the setup page of E3000. Change the wireless settings of E3000 router.
    Go to Setup tab and change the IP address of E3000 router to 192.168.1.2.
    Disable DHCP server on the router and save the settings.
    Do NOT change any other settings ( NAT firewall ).
    Connect the cable from modem to the Ethernet port 1 on E3000 router. power cycle the router.
    Now try to access the Internet through E3000 router.

  • What ports need to be open in a version fios Actiontec MI424WR router to share Mac files os 10.7os

    I need to share Mac Lion files over the internet through  a Verizon FIOS Actiontec MI424WR router. I don't know which ports need to be open.

    548 is AFP assuming you are sharing with another Mac

  • How to use TRUNC function with dates in Expression Builder in OBIEE.

    Hi There,
    How to use TRUNC function with dates in Expression Builder in OBIEE.
    TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'MM') returns '07/01/2010' where sysdate is '07/15/2010' in SQL. I need to use the same thing in expression builder in BMM layer logical column.
    Thanks in advance

    use this instead:
    TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY, ( DAYOFMONTH(CURRENT_DATE) * -1) + 1, CURRENT_DATE)

  • Bad experience with Verizon Fios Internet and Customer Service

    I had an extremely bad experience with Verizon Fios Internet service and I will never use Verizon again. 
    In August 2014, I called and installed the Verizon Fios Internet and phone bundle. I asked the customer agent several times if I will be charged anything before the installation of the Internet and phone service. She said, 'No, we will only start charging after the Internet and phone are installed at your apartment'. I went to the store and picked up the router and phone and installed it at home by myself. The router did not work. I called Tech support and they said it will take several days for another available agent to come and look into the issue. I decided to discontinue the service and closed the account that same night.
    At the end of the month, I received a bill of $80 of activation fee for the internet service. Nothing was ever activated, my internet router did not work, and I got charged an activation fee for a service that I did not even start using. From August to December, I called customer service over 10 times and some of them said they will waive it while the others said it's a non-refundable activation fee. One lady said, 'Ma'am, the activation fee starts when you placed the order, the warehouse received it and packed the router in the boxes....' Isn't that ridiculous? If that's the case, please ask all your customer representative to say a clause before new customers open their account: Are you aware that you will be charged a non-refundable activation fee once you open the account regardless of whether or not you use the service or not. 
    So after 3 months (November 2014), I decided to get out of all these troubles and paid off my $80 activation fee. They put the bill in the collection agency and I called them and paid the overdue balance. Then in December 2014, I received a statement saying I have a $3.11 overdue balance. The collection agency told me that they will charge me for the whole activation fee and a $3 transaction fee for the transaction. So now Verizon came back and said I owed them the $3 because I paid the collection agency their transaction fee. 
    I am very disappointed and furious about the whole Verizon operating system. Charging a customer for an activation fee for a service s/he has not consumed or used does not make any business sense. In addition, they do not know how to coordinate with the collection agency on overdue bills. Give the customer a heads-up that they will be charged a transaction fee on top of the overdue balance, and that transaction fee does not count towards clearing the balance. 
    I have completely lost my confidence in Verizon albeit the many good feedback from my friends. 

    Hi crystallau52,
    Sorry you are having difficulty. An agent with access to your account will reach out to you directly by email, private message in the Forums and/or the billing telephone number on your Verizon account for more information or to help you resolve your issue.

  • Email photos from iPhoto 8 with Verizon Fios internet

    I am totally new to the wonderful mac world. I have a new iMac with Verizon Fios internet. When I try to automatically setup for emailing photos it tries to setup something with "incoming.yahoo....
    How do I go about setting up email sharing of photos?

    mrmole
    To email photos from within iPhoto you need to use one of the following applications for email:
    1. Apple's Mail (it comes with your Mac)
    2. Entourage
    3. AOL
    4. Eudora
    Only these four apps allow direct emailing from within iPhoto. You make your choice in the iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> General pane.
    OF course, you need to set up these clients to work for email with your own email settings. Fir details on how to do that you'll ned to consult the Help on the particular app.
    If you use Web-based email, you cannot email from within iPhoto. In that case you can use one, some or any of the following:
    For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
    Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
    To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
    This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
    If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto. With 10.5 you can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
    Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
    If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
    Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
    Other options include:
    1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
    2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
    3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
    Regards
    TD

  • Kindle Fire HD problems with Verizon FIOS

    This has happened to me several times now and Amazon has even shipped me two replacement kindles to resolve the problem which I have no deteremined is the fault of Verizon FIOS and not Amazon. 
    The problem: The Kindle Fires will not download books or stream/download purchased movies from Amazon but will instead hang and then timeout. 
    I was able to obtain a debug log from the kindle fire and it is full of messages like this:
    amazon_main5:05-22 22:12:46.412  3846  4259 E AmazonVideo.service: EXCEPTION: Making request to https://atv-ext.amazon.com/cdp/library/GetLibrary?firmware=fmw:15-app:1.0.3089.1-ATVAndroidTateClien... java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
    however, I am able to make these same requests from any other machine and they proceed fine:
    macbook$ curl 'https://atv-ext.amazon.com/cdp/library/GetLibrary?firmware=fmw:15-app:1.0.3089.1-ATVAndroidTateClien...
    Response:
    {"message":{"statusCode":"ERROR","timestamp":1400857908,"body":{"code":"CDP.InvalidRequest.MissingRequiredParameter","message":"Could not retrieve client information from request."}},"signature":"m6OJiOF4oB/X+90WykVPk5CA9p0PZlUKgfR6JlkLmhvqQfRenTgN0xuvYS78C3XM5eGdAV/VBZWIzhz69Ko920shu3/O80XlJrPig3HmMgXoFzNMOAMQTeGNiTwrRkhl6AZmZtix0o3EcvpoBcLyhSJiza5GWc8shJ8a6VfzlfM="}
    I have no idea why this is happening JUST FROM THE KINDLE FIRE. Our iPhones, iPad and Rokus have no issue streaming from amazon and i've sent hours on the phone with amazon who are correctly pointing out that this is an issue with Verizon FIOS, most likely with the junky actiontec router. 
    Need more proof? Connecting the kindles to the hotspot on my cell phone or using any other wi-fi network allows streaming and the downloading of books.

    You say "I have no idea why this is happening JUST FROM THE KINDLE FIRE. Our iPhones, iPad and Rokus have no issue streaming from amazon and i've sent hours on the phone with amazon who are correctly pointing out that this is an issue with Verizon FIOS, most likely with the junky actiontec router."  And then you blame the Verizon router for the issue even though you say other devices are working fine.
    It's an issue of how the javascript executes on the Kindle, per the log entry you post.  That has nothing to do with the router but indicates that the Kindle is failing to properly execute the java call and interact with the server.
    Try forgetting and then re-establishing the Kindle Wifi connections to the router.  If that doesn't work, if you've changed the default settings of your router, try doing a factory reset of it.  If you can do a factory reset of your Kindle, try performing that also. 
    You problem is likely not widespread as there are no complaints like this on the various forums I monitor that cover issues with FiOS Internet.  My neighbor (who has a Kindle Fire and FiOS Internet) has no issue like yours.

  • How to use glob search with the wildcard in command find?

    How to use glob search with the wildcard in command find?
    I want to find any file its names begin with "readme" string using command find. Why the following command cannot work?
    $find /usr/share/doc -name readme*
    However, the following commands can work?
    $find /usr/share/doc -name readme\* or
    $find /usr/share/doc -name readme'*'
    I want to know: After using the “\” or ' ', why the wildcard do not become a character "*"?(still a metacharacter).
    Another question:
    I want to find any file its names begin with "readme*" string using the command find.What command should I use?

    I want to know: After using the “\” or ' ', why the
    wildcard do not become a character "*"?(still a
    metacharacter). The backslash is known as an escape character. It means 'use the character value of the next character, not the special meaning' It is used in a lot of places such as command line, global regular expression patterns, and editors such as vi.
    In a typical shell, the splat (*) expands to all file names before passing the file names to the current command. So a \* sequence tells the shell to pass a *, not a list of file names, to the command.
    Demo - OpenSuSE Linux 10.3
    - I have a bunch of files. Let's list those that end in grid. Create one called *grid, and list again
    pops@fuzzyVM:~/pops> ls 
    a  b  c  startgrid  stopgrid
    pops@fuzzyVM:~> ls *grid
    startgrid  stopgrid
    pops@fuzzyVM:~> ls \*grid
    ls: cannot access *grid: No such file or directory
    pops@fuzzyVM:~> touch '*grid'
    pops@fuzzyVM:~/pops> ls
    a  b  c  *grid  startgrid  stopgrid
    pops@fuzzyVM:~/pops> ls *grid
    *grid  startgrid  stopgrid
    pops@fuzzyVM:~/pops> ls \*grid
    *grid
    pops@fuzzyVM:~/pops>In the above, how would I remove the file *grid, and only that file?
    Another question:
    I want to find any file its names begin with
    "readme*" string using the command find.What command
    should I use?What were the results of the two versions you tried? And why?

  • New imac 27(Intel based,bought 2013) slow wifi connection with my Verizon fios actiontec router. All other wireless devices in the house(ipad 3gen,MacBook Air ,hp laptop) have a much faster connection. Should I change router settings to G only,etc

    New imac 27(Intel based,bought 2013) slow wifi connection with my Verizon fios actiontec router. All other wireless devices in the house(ipad 3gen,MacBook Air ,hp laptop) have a much faster connection. Should I change router settings to G only,switch channel from auto to maybe 6,channel width to 20mhz? Already changed security settings to WPA2.  Currently router is running in mixed b and g mode.

    If you have one computer running on G they will all run on G. All ROUTERS are backward compatible, in otherwords if you have a group of computers and all of them are N compatible and one or two are G They will all work but the N computers will run at N and those that are G will run at G speed not N.
    It can get confusing but really it is simple. The newest is 802.11 AC and ic used with the newest Mac Computers made available in November 2013. So if you have the newest Airport Extreme that is 802.11ac and the newest computers that are AC compliant your speed will be 5 times faster than anything on the market right now.

Maybe you are looking for