IBook not finding my Airport Express

I'm hoping someone can please help me. I have an Intel iBook and I had a power failure at my house the other day and for some unknown reason it no longer finds my Network. It finds others in the units around me but not mine. I know AX is working because my G5 iMac has no problems finding my network. Can anyone help?

Both my intel based Macbooks seem to 'lose' AE, sometimes what I do is get a direct ethernet cable from the AE to the offending MB then go through the Airport Utility in Applications/Utilities just to make sure the AE is working properly and then go trough the settings.
is it on the correct password type etc.
Then have a look at system preferences/Network and make sure you have the same corresponding settings as the Airport Utility by selecting Advanced button the near bottom right.
Some people are saying that you should run a Hex Password but I'm not certain it makes any real difference as I did that and my MBP still managed to lose AE yesterday. People are also suggesting soft resets and hard resets downgrading the AE firmware, giving sacrifices to the local Gods and Deities etc..
If you do a hard reset (unplug press the grey button in, plug back in still holding the grey button until you get fast orange flashes), it does work, that is until you put your personal security back, then it will mysteriously play hard to get again.
What I have found is that you can spend hours & hours trying to find your AE to no avail, or you can unplug it and come back to it the next day and all is fine as I have today. I have learned the hard way that patience pays off, if your iBook can't find your Airport Express simply unplug your AE unit & come back to it tomorrow, it is likely to find it again. Let me know if it doesn't and I'll endeavour to take you through the more involved methods described before (excluding sacrifices of course)
Good luck!

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As in previous discussions i've seen, all of a sudden my iBook which i have used for quite some time now without any major problems will not find my airport express wirelessly, i am using a router and the same connection for my desktop (hardwired) and the desktop works 100%, i've even replaced the cable from the router to my Airport Express and when I take the very same cable that goes from the router to the AE but plug it straight into my iBook it works 100%, but when plugged into the "AE" the iBook is not finding it, or actually it does come up in the list of available wireless ports (I live in new York city so there's a bunch on there at any given time) but it does find mine automatically as it used to, but when I try to connect to it when i find it in the list, it says "There was an error joning the AirPort network"... if i hit 'try again' several times it it will evntually (somrtimes after 3 tries othertimes after 30 tries)... but even after it says in the menue bar that I am connected with 100% strength, nither iTunes Air tunes finds the AE connection nor Safari (which says "You are not connected to the internet.")
At the browsers suggestion i then go to the network diagnostics and run through the prompts, until it gets to the 'Select AirPort network" window and nothing shows up.
Then i tried the AirPort Admin utility and it does not find my base station either.
My connection to the internet is 100% without the AE, so obviously something is wrong with my iBook airport card or the AE itself.
Yesterday I uplaoded the newest software 6.2 then reset the AE and actually it worked 2 sessions, then I got back on later in the evening and was having all the same problems...
so I read on these discussions that going back to 6.1.1 was what was helping others, well so far it has made no difference here.
that said the signal that it did find after trying again and again and that does show up in the pulldown signal menue drops off eventually... and all this while still not being able to connect to the internet or airtunes wirelessly. and again all the while my connection on my desktop (hardwired through the same router) works 100% (I have verizon DSL and it's pretty great.
THE AIRPORT EXPRESS GREEN LIGHT IS ON as well.
I have not done a 'hard 5 second re-set" of the AE becuae i thought it might be difficult to imput all the settings all over again, since i did not set it up myself originally... is this my only choice? can some one give me any other ideas? thank you.

Glen,
I feel your pain buddy - same issue here. I have a PG G4 running AE as well. I have internet through Comcast which is coming from the wall, into the modem, and then to the AE. I have faced similar problems as you at least twice in the past three days. Tonight I went to check my e-mail after reading for a couple hours and my drop-down showed a check next to my network, the AE status light was green, and it looked fine. However, when I went to check e-mail I was not connected and same thing with internet. I finally launched Airport Admin Utility and my base station did not show up in the source list - hmmmm?
I am a little concerned about this myself because it is frustration. If you push the reset button on your base station while it's still plugged into power and hold it down for five seconds it will go through a "hard" reset (keep in mind this is not the same as a "factory default" reset). Have you done this before? It takes about 45 seconds. When done and the status light is back to green, you can join the Apple network _______ (some strange numbers) from your airport drop down and then launch Apt. Admin Utility. When you double click on your base station from the admin utility it will come up with a list of profiles. It will allow you to select your previous saved profile from a list. Click on your previous profile, click OK, and the AE will reset with your previous settings. This has gotten mine back up and running, but it's a littl disconcerting that it's happened so much
Any other thoughts out there? Anyone else having these problems and have suggestions for troubleshooting?
-JB

My airport utility does not find my airport express device

My airport utility does not find my airport express device

In order for the AirPort Utility on your iOS device to find the Express, both need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. By default, the Express will broadcast an unsecured wireless network with a network name of something like: Apple Network NNNNNN. Can you iOS device find this network?

Airport utility can not find my airport express...

Airport utility can not find my airport express...
I was trying to connect a PC (Windows XP) laptop to my wireless network via the airport express.
I have a Mac with an airport that I use to get internet in my other room. I am trying to get internet on the laptop too.
I somehow manage to erase my network & now my airport utilities won't even scan/recognize my airport??
ANY help would be appreciated, mac helpline wanted $59 to help & I live in a small northern community where they do not have anyone that will address a Mac issue!!
Thanks for your time.

Thank you SO MUCH Tesserax for taking the time to help!
I powered everything down, slowly powered everything else up from the modem to the airport then the computer. I then reset the airport & rescaned it through utilities. I set up a new network & voila! wireless up & running again.
I am going to try to connect the laptop to the network now.....well, mabey tomorrow night, I've had enough for 1 evening!
I will update....or possibly be begging for more help...we'll see!
Thanks again for your time!

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I have not been able to connect our iBook to Airport Express, however our two other computers are able to access the network. I can connect to the network however I am not able to surf the web on the iBook. Oddly, if we take the iBook elsewhere - like a coffee shop - it can connect.
I did a hard re-set of the Airport (paperclip while plugging in). The iBook can see the base station within the Airport setup utility but is unable to connect. Our other computers can still access the new Apple jf83j39 network.
Suggestions?

Welcome to the discussions forums blajer.
Well, that is really weird.
Try creating a new location:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click Network.
Choose Edit Locations from the Location pop-up menu, and then click Add .
For each network connection setting, enter the same settings that your other computers are using. For example, click TCP/IP > configure IPv4 "using DHCP" etc. DNS > Make sure the DNS Server(s) fields are empty or are in greyed-out type. Try turning OFF IPv4.
Click Apply and wait a moment. Does anything change? What does your IPv4 address show now?

ITunes can not find my airport express

Hi I'm having a lot of issues trying to setup my airport express.
It's wired to my 3com router, on my computer, using airport utility 5.6.1 for windows, I can manually access to the airport express configuration, but the automatic scan can't find it. I put it on bridge mode.
With the computer I can connect wiressly to the airport express or the router (on both cases I can use the ip of the airport expess to access it).
Itunes refuses to find it. On the airport express I enabled the airplay check and on itunes the " allow itunes audio control from remote speakers".
What else do I need to do to listen to my itunes music from the speakers connected to my airtunes express?
Thanks.

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How do I find out what is blocking the airport utility on my new desktop. The Bonjour Service is up and running.   Any help/advice on trouble shooting this issue is appreciated.

The airport utiltity on other computers is able to find that airport express.   I am able to stream music through the airport express from other computers in the network.
You only need one computer on the network to access the settings in the AirPort, so unless you like to look for things, it is probably not worth the effort to try to troubleshoot the blocking action on the Windows 7 machine.
It is not always the Windows Firewall and/or the anti-virus program that blocks connection attempts like this, but that would be the first place to look.
In general, you have to get into the Firewall settings to create an "exception" for the AirPort connection. The same would be true for the anti-virus if that is what is blocking the connection attempt between the PC and AirPort.

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Hi everyone, I'm currently in China and I bought and Airport express just to have a bit more signal in my dorm, however it's been 2 days and I can not configure my airport express everything seems find until the point that I choose join to an existing network and then choose my college and it get stuck for almost 20 min and after it says something about an error, then I switch off and it no longer recognized the airport it keeps looking for and airport base. Please what should I do?

The AirPort Express cannot wirelessly "extend" or "repeat" the wireless signal from another router.....unless that other router is an Apple product.
It is highly unliklely...but possible.....that the dorm would be using another Apple router to provide the wireless service.
The Express is really designed to connect to an Ethernet wall port using a short Ethernet cable connection. When you do it this way, the Express can be set up to provide your own private wireless network in the room.

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I downloaded the latest Airport Utility, but it will NOT work with XP (from the Apple website, not my words).
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I downloaded the latest Airport Utility, but it will NOT work with XP (from the Apple website, not my words).
The latest version of AirPort Utility.....5.6.1.....will only run on a Windows 7 machine.
Try AirPort Utility 5.5.3 for Windows (make sure that you have Service Pack 3 installed on your PC, otherwise the application will not run on an XP machine).
The Airport Express will achieve a solid green indicator after reset, but Airport Utility cannot find it.
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rosenkd wrote:
*** I have tried everything
... including a "hard reset" or a "factory defaults reset"?

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