In Airport utility my internet has a little yellow light on next to it.

Ok, so I installed the apple airport, but when i go onto airport utility on my computer my internet has a little yellow light on next to it. What does it mean?

Click it. AirPort Utility will tell you the reason.

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My airport express has a blinking yellow light and is not working. I have tried resetting it a few times, to no avail. My airport utility on my desktop detects it and will attempt to connect. However, after a few moments it says "An unexp

My airport express has a blinking yellow light and is not working. I have tried resetting it a few times, to no avail.
My airport utility on my desktop detects it and will attempt to connect. However, after a few moments it says "An unexpected error occurred Try again."
I'm running Mavericks on a 24-inch 2007 mac, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.9.3 (13D65). The Airport Express is model A1264. I connect to it via an Airport Extreme with 7.6.4.
Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem with my airport express – a blinking yellow light and it is not working. I have tried resetting it a few times.
My airport utility detects it and try to connect. However, after a few moments it says "An unexpected error occurred Try again.
Airport Express is model A1143
And I have tried to connect with iPhone - same same.

Airport Extreme and Airport Express are not found on the Airport Utility. Internet still works. Huh?

Good People,
I have an Airport Extreme serving as my wireless router with an external hard drive connected to it. I also have an Airport Express in another room connected to a stereo for Airplay. Neither can be found on the Airport Utility (v5.5.3), but wireless internet still works. This happens often, with both reappearing in Airport Utility for short amounts of time periodically. What's the deal? Both the Extreme and Express are less than 6 months old. It's a bit frustrating not getting tunes when you have everything set up right and not being able to use Time Machine consistently.
All recommendations appreciated.
Thanks.

shakeelium wrote:
Good People,
I have an Airport Extreme serving as my wireless router with an external hard drive connected to it. I also have an Airport Express in another room connected to a stereo for Airplay. Neither can be found on the Airport Utility (v5.5.3), but wireless internet still works. This happens often, with both reappearing in Airport Utility for short amounts of time periodically.
I've once had the same problem.
The reason for that issue is the frequency (radio band) hopping of the station.
On your AP-Extreme
Enter the manual setup
Disable Guest Network if not desperately needed
Set a dedicated name for the 5GHz wireless (wireless -> wireless options)
Eventually change the radio mode (if no 802.11b/g systems in your home) to "only 802.11n (5GHz) - only 802.11n (2.4GHz)" by holding down the option key *alt* while clicking on the drop down.
On your Mac
Disable (switch off) wireless
Enter system configuration -> network -> wireless
Uncheck "Ask to join new networks"
Enter advanced options and check that your wireless name is in the first position of the list. If not, drag it with the mouse to the first position.
Click apply
Join your wireless again and try to connect to the 5GHz name (SSID) because the 5GHz will improve the connection speed of your Mac remarkably.
Eventually you might change the settings on the Express too.
Check the location of the AP-Extreme.
It should NOT be placed: On the floor, in a corner, behind furniture, near metal objects, life high voltage wire or cordless phone bases.
It should be placed: As high as possible (up on a shelf or ceiling mounted) with a maximum line of sight to all stations, even thru walls.
If your home situation allows that, try to use the 5GHz band only. If you own a iPhone this must use the 2.4GHz radio.
Lupunus

Airport Express fails during setup. Airport Utility doesn't find device, blinking amber light.

I bought an Airport Express Model A1392. It is connected to my cable modem with an ethernet cable. The cable ethernet works fine when plugged directly into my computer.
I open my Airport Utility on my Mac and no device is found. I've tried resetting and powering off my modem and the AE. Any other thoughts, is this a bum product?

fixed it myself: hard reset and setting my AirPort's wireless settings to 100% power did the trick.

My airport has a flashing yellow light. Does this indicate a problem?

I have a fairly new airport but noticed the yellow light is flashing? Does this mean it isn't connecting properly? What do I need to do?

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Status (2nd line in the summary of settings) and a window will open to explain why the amber light is flashing
If everything seems to be working OK, it might be a message that an update is available for the AirPort Express

I recently moved into a new apartment and I can connect with the internet by direct connection to the cable/internet modem. But when I connect my Airport Express, it just blinks with a yellow light and I cannot connect via WiFi. Any suggestions?

I recently moved into a new apartment and can connect with the internet by direct attachment to the cable/internet modem. But when I try to connect the modem to my Airport Express, the Airport just blinks yellow and I cannot get my WiFi. Any suggestions?

Try this User Tip from forum expert Tesserax:
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Airport Extreme (802.11n) stays in blinking yellow light mode.

Status indicates WDS Error. Updated to 7.5.2 firmware today, but blinking yellow status light predates this update. Tried rebooting the AE numerous times, leaving it unplugged for 2, 3 5 and 35 minutes, but no change. Should I try a soft or hard reset? What else should I do to get it back on line? Thanks.

We need to do some troubleshooting to find out why the amber light is blinking, and to do that we need to know what operating system you are using on your Mac or PC.
If you have a Mac, and are not sure what operating system it is using, click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen, then click About This Mac. Post back with the OS X Version number that you see there.

Airport Utility on iphone ipad ios8 often shows internet disconnected while macbook connects just fine

Hi, I need help with this problem that just arose after updating my devices (iphone 5 and ipad air) to ios8.
Every now and then the internet disconnects, and in Airport Utility the Internet is shown disconnected (orange bar), while it is perfectly fine both on the motorola modem and AirPort TC.
My MacBoook and Android devices can connect smoothly to the internet and the only devices affected by this problem are my iPhone and iPad. All the iOS and firmware are most recent ones.
Thanks in advance,
Steven Antonius

Ok, thanks for clarifying that for me. Currently, I am unaware of any issues with OS X 10.8.x and the earlier 802.11b/g AirPorts or with them conflicting with earlier OS X Macs.
If you temporarily power-off the iMac can the MacBook connect now? If so, try setting the Radio Mode on the Express to: "802.11g only." By default, it is set at: "802.11b/g compatible." Verify that the MacBook can still connect. Once verified, power-down the MacBook. Now power-up the iMac. Verify that it can connect. Leave it powered on. Finally power-up the MacBook. Can it connect now?

TS4597 AirPort base station not seen or "An unexpected error occurred" appears in AirPort Utility 6.3 - It did the above steps and cannot get airport utility to allow access to the Airport extreme in order to reconfigure please help

I tried following the article's instructions by going into System Preferences / Network and changing the configure ipv6 tab to Link local only and I STILL am getting the same error. Can someone please advise how to get this ariport extreme back online and configured

I'm in a frustrating predicament with this error, so if folks have any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated...
A few days ago my internet stopped working as best i know out of the blue (3rd gen Airport Extreme with a couple iPhones, iPad, Apple TV's, Mac's (one with Mavericks) on it). In trying to fix it, I powered down everything and reset the router. When the router is initializing (seen through the Airport utility), the internet starts working again on the Mac in which I'm running the Airport utility. (a browser in background loads a previously unloadable webpage). I'm then left with a screen where the Airport utility is waiting for me to enter set-up info:
If I leave the Airport Utility in this state and don't hit next, my internet works fine on my Mac. If I set-up this info, however, my internet no longer works (in Airport Utility the Internet globe has a orange circle saying internet disconnected) and I get a screen saying "An unexpected error occured. Try again." I've tried toggling a number of router settings, restarting the router, but nothing seems to fix it.
I've taken the router to Apple, where they were able to create a network fine with the router. I also bought a new AE router, and tried an old AE express router, but all attempts get the same error. I've also tried using the iOS Airport utility, but that doesn't seem to help. I've tried the older version (5.6) of Airport Utility run on a non-Mavericks Mac, but that didn't help.
I had a ISP technician come out, but they basically said the plug (we don't have a modem, but just a ethernet plug in our apartment) in which you're getting the internet from us is working, and it's your router. They're diagnostics said the router is 'throwing off a bunch of errors.' That being said, they've confirmed the setting on the AE are okay (as far as they know...).
Any thoughts here? I'm not especially network-proficient, but searching around has pointed me to potential issues with mavericks, IPv6, and the latest version of the Airport Utility.
I'm desperate - please help!
Much thanks in advance.

SNMP on 802.11ac AirPort Extreme. Gone or just not available in latests AirPort Utility?

Hello everyone. I just purchased three 802.11ac AirPort Extremes to replace three previous generation AE's that were becomming problematic. I just discovered that the SNMP feature is missing? Is the functionality still there, but possibly enabled by means other than AirPort Utility? Or has Apple once again decided on our behalf and took away a much needed feature? I will be soreley dissapointed if Apple has ommited SNMP from the new AE.

We wish you luck.
Apple removed the SNMP function almost two years ago, so you would think that if Apple were going to do something, they would have done it by now.
But, you never know what might happen.
In case you were wondering how to locate a list of DHCP connected network clients on the TC, that is another item that "disappeared". If important to you, you might want to ask about that as well.

Endless blinking yellow light on my A1408 Airport Extreme...Why?

I don't know what I haven't done in my endless, futile and otherwise totally failed attempts at getting the Airport Extreme to work...the yellow light flashes. That's how far I've gotten.

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Select the AirPort Extreme and click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Status (2nd line on the summary page)
A window will open to explain why the AirPort Extreme is complaining, along with suggested actions to remedy the illness

How do I control my airport extremes/time capsules w/airport utility over the internet without mobile me? iCloud has disabled this function.

How do I use airport utillity with Time Capsule(or any airport extreme) over the internet without mobile me? iCloud has disabled this function. The mac's that I have not upgraded to icloud still see my routers over the internet with mobile me enabled. Are these routers obsolete now or will there be a firmware update to use icloud?

i want to do the same. i tried entering my @me.com account and does not work, but if I tried to go to icloud.com and using my @me.com works
why?
does the Airport express needs to be upgraded as well

I have a Power PC G4 which is running on OSX 10.5.8, it has the AirPort utility but cannot connect to the internet as my iMac can, I think I might need an AirPort Card? Is that the case or do I need something different to connect to a wireless modem?

I have a Power PC G4 which is running on OSX 10.5.8, it has the AirPort utility but cannot connect to the internet as my iMac can, I think I might need an AirPort Card? Is that the case or do I need something different to connect to a wireless modem?

Welcome!
Only one variant of the PowerMac G4 could use the faster Airport Extreme Card. The rest used the original Airport card that is pretty slow.
To get fast wireless without buying more than one thing, consider this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Edimax/EW7722IN/
It goes in an available PCI slot
There are USB solutions also. However, all PowerMac G4 towers had only slower USB 1.1 ports, so any USB wireless adaptor can only run at about wireless 'B" speeds (slow) unless you also install a PCI USB 2.0 adaptor card. Doing that would allow a USB wireless adaptor to run at its maximum rated speed. These items working together would accomplish that:
USB wireless "dongle:"
Newer Technology MAXPower 802.11n/g/b USB Adapter + Plug and play direct or with extension cradle
USB PCI adaptor:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=5 000&N=7069&Ntt=USB+PCI
Each approach has its advantages. The PCI wireless card is a one-piece solution that takes up no desk space. The USB2 card+USB2 Dongle gives you more fast ports for transferring date from other external USB devices (primarily cameras and external hard drives) at hugely faster rates than can the original ports. I have a USB 2 PCI card in my G4 tower strictly for transferring images from my digital SLR camera in a timely manner.

HT1218 My AirPort Utility is showing that it's not connected. It has been working fine. What do I do? I've checked my internet connections and they are working.

My AirPort Utility is showing that it's not connected to the internet. It has been working fine until now. I am connected and can't figure out why it's saying this. Please help!

Hello utfan5
Try resetting up the AirPort base station to see if it resolves the connectivity issue. Also make sure you are using the recommended settings to connect to the internet.
Resetting an AirPort base station FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728
iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199
Regards,
-Norm G.

PC AirPort Utility cannot find Airport extreme w/ ethernet but has internet

Hello, I have set up the airport extreme to use with a MacBook. I pluged everything in just fine (PC using ethernet) but had to configure the base station with the MacBook as the PC could not find it using the Utility. However the PC is connected to the internet just fine through the base station's ethernet port.
My problem is trying to get the PC (running XP home 2002 sp2) to see the Airport Extreme using the Airport Utility in order to start configuring network printing and eventually AirTunes.
I cannot seem to find this solution anywhere. Please help if you can. Thanks!

Hi I don't know for sure if this is your answer, but with your mac go into setup again. Under wireless tab, then wireless options , make sure 'create a closed network' is unchecked. This may allow the pc to see any Apple base stations. Good luck
Can you please tell me exactly where to find the "create a closed network" box? I am brand new to mac and am still finding my way around. Thank you so much!

In Airport utility my internet has a little yellow light on next to it.

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