Mac Mini Bluetooth Connections Issues with Airport Extreme

Hi,
The issue I'm having is my apple bluetooth devices will not connect to my mac mini. This problem started a few weeks ago and i have narrowed it down to my Airport Extreme which is right next to my Mac Mini. I have tried adjusting the channels and removing the Wide channel option on the Airport Extreme this has helped I can use my magic pad (not really up to par but it works). When I disconnect my Airport all my bluetooth devices work great. Moving my airport extreme isn't an option without a large amount of work putting in a new cable outlet. I don't know what changed from a few weeks ago as the devices have always been within inches of each other and worked fine.
I was trying to find a way to disable the 2.4 band on the airport extreme but this for as far as i know can't be done. I'm running out of ideas on what to do next any help would be great.

Are you sure it's not the monitor? Monitors have been known to do this.
Try changing the broadcast channel on the AEX using the Airport Utility.

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Hello,
This is not all necessarily airport base station related, but there is some crossover, so I'm posting all of these issues...
Here is the laundry list of things that I can't make work in a home network that contains a PC w/ XP Home, MacBook 1.83 w/ 10.4.7, and Airport Extreme Base Station w/ Modem.
1. Can't see the PC from the Mac.
a. "Connect to server -> Browse" does not find the PC
b. "ipconfig" on PC provides valid looking IP address
c. ping from mac to PC IP address times out
d. Firewall on XP is disabled via control panel
b. Windows file and printer sharing is enabled
2. Can't see mac from PC
a. Windows file sharing enabled on mac
b. Firewall on mac disabled
c. I used \\MacIPAddr\shortusername
d. ping times out
3. Using dial-up to access internet, how do i tell airport to dial using PC?
a. this feature is working fine from mac
b. If already connected (via instruction from mac), can surf the internet fine from PC
c. Is this even possible from the PC?
4. Can't see printer connected to base station from PC
a. See it fine from mac
b. How do i "find" the printer on the PC?
c. Is Bonjour required for this? (I don't have it on the PC yet)
5. Can't see a "shared" printer on the PC from the mac
a. printer is connected directly to PC
b. Mac's add printer wizardry looks like it may "see" the printer, but then it asks for username and password for PC. This is XP home, with no usernames or passwords. Single user. Nothing seems to work in the credentials pop-up dialog.
Any suggestions on any of these issues is very welcome.
Thanks

Is the PC running any kind of internet security or firewall software?
1. Can't see the PC from the Mac.
2. Can't see mac from PC
Sharing files between an XP PC and a Mac running OS 10.4.x
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3020.html
3. Using dial-up to access internet, how do i tell
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Jon Sevy has a Java Utility for this purpose.
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http://www.java.com
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http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1004.html
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http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1008.html
Problems with finding Printer Driver on Windows XP when using printer connected to Airport Extreme or Express
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1012.html
5. Can't see a "shared" printer on the PC from the
mac
Printing to a printer on a XP PC from a Mac running 10.4.x
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3015.html
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Help! iMac would not Connect/Find with Airport Extreme

Strange issue. I used to connect my Airport extreme with iMac, until recently iMac could not join with aiport. Instead my iMac connected to my neighbor's network. I'm using Time Warner cable.
However, my MBP and my Dell laptop could connect to my airport. Any ideas what could interfere with my iMac? I already called the Tech support and even went to the Apple store, they all said is the iMac since the iMac was able to connect with all the airports at the store. The tech support suggested me to move my airport to a room with less interference. Is that right? the iMac or the airport should I move?
We spent 2 hours, resetting back to factory setting and still iMac could not join Airport Extreme.
Any suggestions or advices are appreciated.
Tom
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Thank you for your e-mail, Duane. Yes, the airport express (hooked up to my stereo in the dining room) does receive iTunes from my G5 in the office. The light is a blinking yellow, but it still receives the signal.
Last night, I was able to get an internet signal on my eMac (with airport extreme card installed) from the VersaLink router that my G5 uses in the office!
I figured out that the eMac and G5 were obviously not communicating with each other, and went to the Airport icon on the top of both screens to make sure that the Location Names were correct. I discovered that I needed to change the G5 from the Airport Express Location (stereo)to the name of the eMac location (Master Bedroom). Then I got the network connection. I suppose to play iTunes to my stereo, I will have to change the location, again, right?
Another comment: I was rather amazed that, after at least an hour and a half phone conversation with three different technicians, no one came close to this solution. And I'm paying for technical help (two years left on a three year contract)! Evidently, it is not common knowledge that a wireless router and an airport extreme card with mini-antenna can communicate? I came close to buying an Airport Extreme Base Station because I thought that I might need it!!!
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I have a Airport Extreme that is connected to a cable modem, that airport extreme is then hardwired connected to a time machine.
Recently, I have had trouble connecting wirelessly to the airport extreme. Even more troubling is that I can no longer can connect via ethernet to the time machine directly. In other words, the only way I can connect is by directly connecting to the airport extreme.
Any help would be great. Oh I have a MBP with the latest updates and a MB that is not connecting to the time machine or wireless to the extreme

angelop wrote:
I have used the following for about two years.
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You probably know, that's "iffy" and +*not supported by Apple.+* See the Using Time Machine with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
To get around this issue, I have switched off the Time Machine, and am only turning on once a week or so, to grab any changes or additions I've made. I've been doing this for about 6 months now with no problems.
Now whenever I do this, (It should only be backing up an album or two from iTunes,) it tries to back up my whole system again. EVERY TIME. It did not do this before.
If you go too long between backups, Time Machine will do a new, full backup. And once it decides to do that, it will keep trying until it succeeds. There are some other possibilities as well. See #D2 in the Using Time Machine with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
If none of those seem to explain it, see #A1 there; download the TM Buddy widget, copy and post the messages here.
Why are you only backing-up once a week? Time Machine was designed to back up changes hourly, as long as your Mac is awake and the TC is in range. It will protect you best that way, and unless there's a problem, those backups will usually be very quick.
But if you're only going to back up once a week or so, then Time Machine is not the best app for you. See Kappy's post on Basic Backup, complete with links to the web sites of each product.

How to tether Mac pro to existing wifi with airport extreme

Wifi where I live. Need Mac pro on net. Have airport extreme. Does apple disable this for marketing reasons to sell wifi internal card? Or, can I use what I have? Thanks! Using Lion
BTW. Mac is less stable with Lion!!!! Like using microsoft used to be :-(

2009 and earlier Mac Pros did not include a Wi-Fi card in the standard configuration.
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I have just upgraded my connection to 100mbps. Using a ARRIS TM 502G cable modem and the Airport Extreme I am able to get the 100mbps connection via either ethernet or wifi on my main MacBook Pro. However, the Mac Mini in the loungeroom (10 metres away from the Airport Extreme) is only getting speeds of around 25mbps.
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The Mini was connecting at 20 - 25mbps via wifi.
The Macbook Pro was connecting at 80 - 90mbps via wifi (when in same room as Airport Extreme) and getting anywhere from 80 to 140mbps via a wired connection.
I've moved the Airport Extreme so it has the best "line of sight" to the Mini, and also disconnected a cordless phone I had in the room which was interfering with the signal.
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I lost about 3 hours with connection issues while trying to add a second airport express. The airport Utility couldn't find any of the units anymore. After aging a couple of years and checking lots of forums (many suffered the same problems) I found this link
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1406#
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Check the cabling to the Base Station - make sure the modem is plugged into the Base Station's ethernet WAN port (ie the port labelled with the "circle of dots" icon).
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Ongoing wireless issues with Airport Extreme + Express

We have 5 macs in our household. 2 laptops, a desktop, a Macbook Air and a Macbook pro. We have dsl and had a Linksys router. All of us were able to use the internet fine: Airport bar always showed full bars (we did have some slowed response when everyone was on at once but it never posed a major inconvenience). However, the Macbook air had problems from the beginning: dropped connections, choppy video with stalls, buffering taking forever. The Air is the newest of all the computers purchased in April. I went to the Mac store and they suggested purchasing the Airport Extreme AND the Express to ramp up everything both in terms of signal strength and range. Installation was fairly easy and I added the Express to the Extreme network. Now even when standing next to the Extreme base station I get only 2 bars (the little dot at the bottom and one bar above it). I notice no increase in speed. There is worse reception on the Macbook Air belonging to my daughter...she has given up on videos and uses her sisters' laptops to download music to her her iPod. I have cleared caches, updated all computers, reset the modem and router, reset the dhcp lease...nothing works. How is it I had better connection with a NON Mac product?(Prior to buying the new Airports I purchased a Ralink network adapter for my daughter and myself and we had better performance with that ...at $17).As all Mac computers are experiencing the same low performance except for the Macbook Air as noted above it cannot be a hardware issue. Is there something else to be done with theAirports? Please advise.

1. Try switching to a different channel.
2. Try System Preferences>Network>Advanced>DNS
Click on the + and insert:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
click OK, then click Apply.
You can do that on each Mac.

Speed or Performance Issue with Airport Extreme 802.11n

Background:
Router 1: Linksys Wireless G 2.4GHz Router WRT54G (have been using for 1.5 years)
Router 2: Airport Extreme 802.11n Base Station Model: A1143 (just arrived)
Macs: Intel MacBook Pro & MacBook both Newtwork Adapters upgraded to 802.11 a/b/g/n and verified via "Netwrok Utility". The Netwrok Utility also displays the link speed at 54 mb under interface info. when the Linksys G router is selected and the link speed at 144 mb when the airport extreme n is selected.
Observation & Issue:
Currently, for testing both network routers have been used seperatly (connected directly via the cable modem) and speeds for each latop verified via http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and normal "human" usage web surfing observations via Safari. Results below:
1. When using the Linksys G router both the MacBook and MacBook Pro appear to be performing well and responsive with little or no wait on graphically/media intense sites such as apple.com
The speakeast.net/speedtest/ (using the NYC hub close by) downoad test displays 8MB to 10MB speeds
2. On the otherhand, when using the Airpot extreme both the MacBook and MacBook Pro appear to be performing slower than usual with higher waits for image and page downloads.
In addition, the speakeast.net/speedtest/ (using the NYC hub close by) downoad test displays 2MB to 3MB speeds. Lower than what we experienced using the older router.
Request for advide or help:
1) Is this normal? Assuming it is not, what esle can I look at that can help me determine the root cause. The Airport Utility does not offer much assistance in this matter.
2) Thus far I have opted to revert back to my Linksys g router. However, before returning the product... any other adivce on a potential miss in the configuration or setup would be of great help.
3) Other's experiencing the same?
MacBook Intel & MacBook Pro Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8) SUing Comcast Cable Modem

Contacted Apple Support (have an AppleCare account) tonight and the issue has been resolved with the caveat that I cannot have a mixed (g & n) radio mode on the same airport extreme base without significant loss of performance. These are the steps I was walked through to resolve my particular case:
1) Verify that your hardware is indeed upgraded to use n (see steps in my original post)
2) Open the AirPort Utility (new program that was installed from the install disc under applications/utility)
3) Click on the Airport Extreme image on the right hand column to open the Airport Extreme settings
4) Select the "Wireless" tab, then "Radio Mode" drop down and select 802.11n only (5 GHz)
5) Select Update to apply new settings.
Results:
When running the speakeasy.net/speedtest I am seeing results that are indeed better. However, the test shows that the top speed lowers a bit and jumps back up unlike when I am on my old g router, which does not have such a jump.
This test is not perfect but a good gauge. If anyone has any other ideas to test performance more accurately, please do let me know.
Note: Only n enabled devices now work with the n router. I will keep my old g router as a backup and for my work pc laptop.
Hope the above helps and thanks.
MacBook Intel & MacBook Pro Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Mac mini, bluetooth connection problems

Hi, My mac mini (latest model) has recently got problems with the bluetooth connections to the keyboard and the mouse.
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connect again.
I assume that it was one recent update that caused this as it worked without any problems for months before it
started by itself.
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When configuring my Airport Extreme to use the AT&T DSL internet connection, an IP Configuration conflict is reported. My IP address is shown as in use by the Ethernet ID - DHCP Server. As a consequence, the Airport is not reporting an IP address to allow an internet connection. Here is the actual message:
192.168.1.64 in use by d8:a2:5e:7a:6e:35, DHCP Server 192.168.1.254
Hard re-starting the AIrport Extreme does not shake this configuration error.
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Thanks.

Check out this thread for some interesting items. The same instructions work for several users...but not another.
Re: AirPort Extreme Set Up Issue
AT&T wants this modem and router to work using DHCP - Bridge mode.
Not sure what you mean here.
This modem will not work correctly with an AirPort Extreme unless you put the modem in Bridge Mode or PPP is on the Router and then configure the AirPort Extreme to provide the PPPoE service.
I pulled out my old 2210 to test and confirm. Everything works just fine the way that AT&T recommends.
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Mac Mini Internet Connection Issues

In recent weeks the success of my Mac Mini being able to access the Internet and my home network is abissmal.
I have intermittant forced access at best, I have power cycled my router and modem from Time Warner. I have tested both WIFI and Eithernet to no avail
When I use the diagnostics it shows it is not connected, then it will repair connect and when I switch a page in my browser or go to use Skype, BOOM lost connection. This is occuring on both WI FI and Ethernet.
I have read in MAC Forums and on Google that other's have had similar issue.
Info I can add
LinkSys Wireless G router
Also have a WII console an iPhone and Android phone and MacBookPro sharing this connection.
It is nly in the last few weeks it has presented any troubles. I have done a spyware/malware virus check bought MacKeeper cleaned up all files. Short fo taking it in for service (I have only had it since early December)
Is in a router DNS issue, a MAC Mini Issue, a network issue. I am thinking I should have saved more cash and got an iMac.
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Have you tried changing channels on your Router?
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, use Keychain First Aid under the Keychain Menu item, then either check the Password under that item, change it, or delete it and start over.
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106653
The Interface that connects to the Internet, needs to be drug to the top of System Preferences>Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations and checked ON.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
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Try putting these numbers in Network>TCP/IP>DNS Servers, for the Interface you connect with...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Then Apply. For 10.5/10.6 Network, highlight Interface>Advanced button>DNS tab>little + icon.
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Unless you have a reason to want your files on the network instead of on your machine, I'd highly recommend replacing the drive in your MacBook, and at the same time getting a bit larger external drive to use for backups. If you think you're going to have a lot of data, there are now 500 GB or even 750 GB drives you can install. Then for the external, you can get a 1 TB (1000GB) drive for pretty cheap and back everything up.
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I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer to my problem. In my house I have an Airport Extreme, a Linksys switch, and an Airport Express all creating my wireless/ethernet network in the house. Since day one, my PS3 joined our network and I have been able to get online, no problems. Recently though I have decided to attempt to get the horribly difficult NAT type 2 with no success.
Right not I have the Extreme acting as the WDS main and the Express (which delivers perfect connection to the PS3) acting as a WDS remote in Bridge mode. The Extreme is sharing a public IP and I have a DHCP reservation for my PS3 (using the default 10.0.1.253 IP) along with all the PS3 necessary ports forwarded. I have also set up the Extreme to set my PS3 as the default NAT host.
My problem is that I get a "Conflicting DHCP Range" error. I also get a lot of warning messages every now and then saying "10.0.1.x is already in use by *MAC address* 10.0.1.1". I still can get on the internet with my computers and PS3 but I have noticed that signing onto PS network works very rarely.
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Is the PS3 connected to the express over WiFi or plugged into the ethernet port on the express or both?
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