I bought the Airport Extreme 802.11n Wifi

I bought the Airport Extreme 802.11n Wifi from the Apple store in West Edmonton Mall Canada got to the airport, customs scanned the box (which was unopened) and they got a dangerous chemicals hit on the unit. No need to say what else happened there after, i was skinned inside out, body search, drill with the 21 questions and on top that they want to know if i have any ties with any terrorist organizations.
Why would this device give off such a reading?

It doesn't.
The box may have been handled by someone with unclean hands. Or, their security equipment may have been miscalibrated. Or, they're just incompetent. Don't you feel safe?

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can I plug in the airPort Express 802.11n Wifi 220 volt power?

Yes. Its power supply is universal:
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http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/specs/

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The error message as follows" An error occur while trying to access the apple wireless device. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again"
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help out with this.
I am the Design Manager and IT Director at a publishing company where we have just upgraded to an AirPort Extreme (802.11n) base station to drive our network. We went this route as all of our machines are Mac Minis with built-in Airport and we were in a situation where re-doing a hardwire on the building was not going to be a possibility due to budget costs.
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At present, we have several category 6 ethernet cords on backorder. I was planning on using one to take advantage of the gigabit ethernet capabilities between the Airport and the Xserve (as these are the only two elements of the network that support gigabit ethernet, besides the majority of our Mac Minis. Printers and cable modem are only 10-100 capable, so those will stand as is).
Can anyone tell me if the gigabit ethernet cord will be the solution to this one slow aspect of the new network? Any other settings I could apply to possibly speed up the transmission time when moving files to and from our server? Good news is that every workstation in the house is getting a full 4 bars.
Many thanks!

PS, just wanted to point out that we are also running in bridge mode.
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Why after running the Airport Extreme 802.11n cd, still show 802.11 a/b/g??

Hi,
I had install the 802.11n from the CD of Airport Extreme package, but still under the "Network Utitlity", I can't see the "n"?
Anyone can help to advise?

I have a Core duo 2 MBP...
Not clear from the description of your processor.
If you have a "Core Duo" processor, it is not capable of 'n'.
If you have a "Core 2 Duo" processor, it is capable of 'n'.
I've updated to AirPortExtremeUpdate2007003 - how do i know if i'm using n capability?
To check to see if your Mac has 'n' capability (after neabler installed):
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AirPort Extreme 802.11n WiFi is blinking amber after changing from cable to DSL. Everything works well; but light used to be solid green.

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SERIOUSLY slow USB hard drive on the new Airport Extreme 802.11n

I have recently bought the new airport etreme 802.11n. Great little device, look wonderful on the office desk. I had some troubles getting it up and running on my machine but finaly got there in the end.
The USB hard drive is a great little addition that I was very excited about, untill I got it running. It is amazingly slow, for example I tried to copy a folder that contained 15 files which amounted to 135.6mb and it took 20 mins and 24 seconds to upload!
Is this just the speed that it should be uploading or is there somehting wrong with my settings.
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connect with password (which is the same as the base stations password)
Automatically discover disks
Show in menu bar
If anyone knows the technical data for the transfer speeds and can confirm my queries I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance

I have recently bought the new airport etreme
802.11n. Great little device, look wonderful on the
office desk. I had some troubles getting it up and
running on my machine but finaly got there in the
end.
The USB hard drive is a great little addition that I
was very excited about, untill I got it running. It
is amazingly slow, for example I tried to copy a
folder that contained 15 files which amounted to
135.6mb and it took 20 mins and 24 seconds to
upload!
Is this just the speed that it should be uploading or
is there somehting wrong with my settings.
I'm running on 3 bars of signal and the settings I'm
using are:
connect with password (which is the same as the base
stations password)
Automatically discover disks
Show in menu bar
If anyone knows the technical data for the transfer
speeds and can confirm my queries I'd really
appreciate it!
Thanks in advance
Does your drive meet these requirements?:
You can connect USB-based storage devices to an AirPort Extreme (802.11n). Learn which formats and protocols are supported.
The AirPort Extreme (802.11n) supports USB storage devices that have a block size of 512 bytes, and are formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS-plus), FAT16, or FAT32. Not all USB storage devices use a block size of 512 bytes.
The AirPort Extreme (802.11n) shares storage devices based on the format used to initialize the storage device. For example, if HFS-plus formatting was used, AFP and SMB/CIFS protocols are used to share the device on the network. If FAT16 or FAT32 was used, SMB/CIFS protocols are used.
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Airport Extreme 802.11N (5th Gen) frequent crash

I had bought an Airport Extreme 802.11N (5th Gen) that died a few months after purchasing it. I had the unit replaced via Applecare in May 2013.
The new unit's firs recorded crash was in August 2013. After that, it crashed sporadically, these instances were not recorded. In May 2014 it crashed twice in one day. Every time of a crash, I've had to effect a hard reset to factory presets and upload a saved configuration. This last time I reconfigured from scratch and saved the new config. Now it crashes regularly, every month since September. I have no idea what to make of it.
Considering that I had one of the original Silver units running for years (and upgraded with a more capable Orinoco card—if you know what I'm talking about, you know that's old!). I expected to get reliable service from this more advanced unit. So far, It's a bit of a dud.
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I have found the Gen5 AE to be very reliable.
I would have blamed a dud unit.. except that you have had two of them.. So I would be tracing where the problem is apart from the AE.
What modem do you run? How is the AE setup in the network?
The older utility is of far more use than the one in Yosemite. So do you have available an older OSX version or even windows.. you can see the logs from the unit.. just like you could in the original B and G versions.
(and upgraded with a more capable Orinoco card—if you know what I'm talking about, you know that's old!
Know exactly what you are talking about.. Orinoco were most desired for their use with wifi scanners.
How is your power?? Apple stuff does seem to use stuff that is highly susceptible to spiking. I keep my network stuff on UPS. (or battery direct feed).
I also do not like 7.6.4 firmware.. I know others here might find it ok but I can clearly demonstrate worse performance with it. Direct A-B testing.
Take the firmware back to 7.6.1 and factory reset and see if you get any improvement.
To actually need to restore firmware settings is not normal.. so something major is wrong and in unusual way.. I think power is one key part of it.

WMM for AirPort Extreme (802.11n) - UMA T-Mobile not working...

Is there any chance we'll see WMM (WiFi Multi-Media) in a firmware upgrade anytime soon? I noticed that according to the WiFi Alliance's website, when the AirPort Extreme was certified, it supported WMM!
http://certifications.wi-fi.org/wbcscertified_products.php?search=1&advanced=1&lang=en&filter_company_id=&filter_cat egory_id=&filter_subcategory=&filter_cid=&date_from=&date_to=&x=30&y=18&selectedcertifications%5B%5D=33
As an early adopter, I just got a BlackBerry 8320 from T-Mobile, which does UMA, so you can use the phone over WiFi. Works awesome with wireless routers that do WMM, basically doesn't work with my AirPort Extreme... As you might imagine, this is quite frustrating, as I have particular desire to have two APs, for basically no reason!
--Donald

I shot this across... let's see if anything comes of it:
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To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: a rather pressing Airport Extreme (802.11n) issue
i'm not sure if the person receiving this email will have any power (or will
care enough) to do anything about sorting this problem out, but hey...
better to try and fail than not trying at all, right?
anyway... here goes:
i am a die-hard apple user- heck, even a long-time stockholder- and recently
bought an airport extreme (802.11n) router for my house. it worked
flawlessly and i thought it was the best thing since sliced bread... well,
until i picked up a UMA phone from T-Mobile.
UMA is a service that routes your calls over WiFi. for some reason the UMA
service worked everywhere except over my Airport Extreme base station. as a
surprise, it even worked over my neighbour's older Airport Extreme (802.11g)
connection.
i swapped base stations (ie, brought his base station to my house, connected
it to my network) and it worked. so, it is an issue that is clearly
isolated to the new 802.11n base stations.
thinking it was only me with this issue, i dug around the internet and found
this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1152014&tstart=15
(if you want more, just google the keywords 'airport extreme UMA')
obviously there's no resolution and people are getting quite peeved that a
state-of-the-art base station can't do something than an older base station
can clearly do. so, can someone please look into this?
thanks!
pramit
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Airport Snow vs. Airport Extreme 802.11n

I've been using my Airport Snow for a year or two now and it's been performing very well. I connected it directly to my Comcast cable modem so it distributes IPs to my local network.
I decided to buy the new Airport Extreme because I now have a new white MacBook Core 2 Duo which has been upgraded for 802.11n.
I replaced my Airport Snow with the Airport Extreme 802.11n and put the Airport Snow aside and powered off.
All of my network works just fine and Internet access is in full operation and functional.
However, the Internet performance is abysmal using this new Airport Extreme. My wife who uses an original MacBook Core Duo wirelessly has noticed a dramatic decrease in web pages starting to load and final loading seems agonizingly slow with a long delay right at the end. On my computer I've noticed the same performance issue and it's connected to my LAN and not wirelessly.
Having used the Airport Snow for maybe two years both my wife and I have a strong feel for performance expectations and with the transition from Airport Snow to Airport Extreme 802.11n there's is a noticeable and disappointing performance degrade.
I've checked everything wrt to the Airport Extreme 802.11n configuration and as far as I can tell I've done everything correctly, plus every thing is functional as it should be.
One other thing to mention while I'm at it. The new Airport Extreme has two additional LAN ports. One would think that plugging any one of my LAN ethernet lines connect to my PM G5 into one of these would provide a like performance or even better performance vs. being plugged into an ethernet switch. BUT alas, this is not so - in fact the performance is quite a bit worse.
All of this has me quite worried thinking that I've bought into an inferior wireless solution compared to my Airport Snow device.
Have others experience anything similar to what I've described here ?
Thanks for any feedback or insights as to what may be causing this anomaly.

BTW - I really like the shared USB drive feature offered by the new Airport Extreme 802.11n. Having a device such as this allows my wife and I to share a storage space very easily with out portable MacBooks around the house.

Why cant i install airport extreme 802.11n on my macbook running 10.8.4

I just bought an airport extreme 802.11n and i cant install it on my macbook pro running 10.8.4. It says its not compatible. Im no genius, so if anyone can help, please go easy on me!

those specs i gave were off the macbook pro box..... but yes, that is what i bought(less the box, bought used)
John Galt wrote:
juli730 wrote:
on the box it says pre installed os x and ilife, and 802.11n wi-fi3 and bluetooth 4.0. Is that the right answer?!
What box are you reading from? This is an AirPort Extreme 802.11n box:
Is that what you bought?
John Galt wrote:
juli730 wrote:
on the box it says pre installed os x and ilife, and 802.11n wi-fi3 and bluetooth 4.0. Is that the right answer?!
What box are you reading from? This is an AirPort Extreme 802.11n box:
Is that what you bought?

I bought the Airport Extreme 802.11n Wifi

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