My airport express appears to overheat and become inactive. The light is green. I can unplug it, wait a bit and plug it back in and it works fine. This is the second AE that has exhibited these symptoms.
I have an Airport Express that I use to extend the range of my Airport Extreme. A previous Airport Express stopped working and was invisible to the Airport Setup Utility. It was hot to the touch. Unplugging and re-activating had no effect. I bought a new Airport Express and it has begun exhibiting similar symptoms. It stops working (but the LED stays solid green). It is hot to the touch. It is not visible to the Setup Utility. I unplug it, wait a few minutes, and plug it back in. It works fine.
We see very few posts on the forum about an AirPort Express overheating.
Except for unplugging during vacations, etc., I've had a couple of AirPort Express devices on 24/7 for years with no issues at all. They do get moderately warm because the case acts to dissipate heat.
Do you have the Express located where there is plenty of free air and good ventilation around the device?
Have you verified that the AC socket is putting out the normal 115-120 volts?
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My phone froze this morning while I was replying to an email. Is there anything I can do to get it working and to avoid going into Apple?
Assuming it is charged and did not shutdown due to low battery, have you tried an power off/on? Or a reset by holding the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears and it restarts?
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On my second Airport Express in 3 months and still doesn't work!
I bought an airport express 3 months ago and it worked perfectly just up until a few days ago. I went thru all the possible fixes and hard resets, changed cables, re-located the airport etc. And all failed leaving me with a blinking amber light. I went to the store that I bought the airport from and they tried hooking it up on their system and they got the same result. They told me I would have to go thru apple to get it looked over. I have a home business and needed this unit to work that day as I depend on the internet. So I said screw it and bought another airport express, got it back to the office and guess what? Yup it also doesn't work either. So what can I derive from this, is it my set up? It worked without any changes to the settings for three months. Is it the unit? It doesn't work in my office or at the shop I bought it from. Any suggestions before I buy another brand.
Ok here is what I suggest:
1. Reset the ISP modem, most can be done by simply pulling the power on the unit and waiting about 10 seconds then plug back in
2. Reset the Express to factory defaults:
Use pen or paper clip to press and hold the reset button for 10 seconds.
3. Open Airport Utility (Do not use the assistant at this time) and set up with the following settings.
Airport
Base Station Tab
- keep all defaults
Wireless Tab
Wireless Mode - Create a wireless Network and keep all else default
-Keep all others default
Access Tab
MAC Address Access Control - Not Enabled
Internet
Internet Connection Tab
Connect Using - Ethernet
Configure IPv4 - Using DHCP
Ethernet WAN Port - Automatic
Connection Sharing - Share a public IP Address
DHCP Tab
DHCP Beginning Address - 172.16.1.200 These addresses are simply examples and default.
DHCP Ending Address - 172.16.1.210
-Keep all others default
NAT Tab
-Keep all defaults
Do not set up any security options at this time, wait until you get the Express operating then you can start to set up WEP, WPA etc. Security
Once you have all these settings configured the press update and wait for the Express to reboot. If you still have a Blinking Orange light then I recommend contacting the ISP and make sure that they have the Expresses MAC address in the data base. Most ISP's will require the MAC address of the unit they are giving an IP address to.
Or you can try to reset the Express by unplugging the Express then while using a pen or paper clip press and hold the reset button while you plug the Express into the AC outlet. Then try setting up the configuration as above. -
Just changed my router to airport extreme
My MacBook pro and iPad work fine but my VAIO wireless desk computer is not working.
It says
, the router does not support the network .check security setting.
Which of the security setting will I change?
Thanks for your help.John, thanks for the email so quickly.
I too hope I haven't tried "everything" either but I am reasonably technical. I had done what you suggested to do before but I did both again.
Ethernet is yellow in the left side bar. In the right pane it's status says Connected but then below it says "Ethernet has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the Internet."
I have tried the assist me menu and Network Status has Ethernet Green, Network settings Yellow, ISP Green, and Internet and Server Red and Failed for both. I have turned things off and on, checked cables, deleted all locations and tried restting them up but to no avail. I even disconnected everything and connected the mac directly into the cable modem itself and the thing still will not connect.
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I have two problems. The first one: when I conect my iphone 5 on the pc appears "-42110" and the version of itunes is the last one. The second is that I am not conectin itunes store fron the iphone appears"couldn´t conect to itunes store". I need help. Tk
First problem first
As your iTunes is up to date, remove the SC Info folder. -
Airport Express 801.11b/g and the neverending, unconfigurable blinking amber light
Gather round and let me tell you a tale. Once upon a time I bought an airport express 801.11b/g and I was very happy to use it for airtunes, extending a wi-fi network and the wireless printing capabilities. One day, it beagn flashing a scaaaary amber light. The base station stopped showing up in my airport utility 5.6 as well. The only way to get it to show up, was to hard reset it, and lose all the configurations I once enjoyed happily. After the hard reset, It would show up in the utility, and I would reconfigure it to do all its cool things it once did, and it would restart. But sadly, after restarting the blinking amber light came on a again. It would also not show up in the utility unless I hard reset it again, and the same thing happened over and over and over until I felt like pulling my hair out.
I decided to get another airport express a few months later, ultimately deciding that the unit must have just been defective. Bad luck. But - the second unit literally went through the SAME EXACT THING. Worked for a while, then onto the blinking amber light- hard reset- reconfigure-blinking amber light thing. Over and over and over. Just like the first one. The end.
So - either Im missing something totally fundamental or I had the misfortune of getting two defective units in a row. Both were bought used from different places, and worked "fine" for previous owners. Am I corrupting these things or what?
I have spent literally hours trying all the resets, configuring "workarounds" and nothing works. For both of them.
What do I do with these two devices? I don't need two shiny white paperweights.
Please advise,
Thanks.Yes. It seems an integral part of the set up process though, you don't have to seperately configure the airport do you?
My wireless security is WPA/WPA2 Personal. When I go through the standard network set up, it automatically enters my wireless security settings. So it doesn't really seem to give an option to specifically set that option on the airport if that makes sense?
I did go through maunual mode to try that with the same result:
If I'm using the airports own network and connect to the wifi, no security, then I'm getting airtunes from my macbook. Of course this means it's plugged into my router via ethernet which isn't any use to me as I want it in my kitchen, and would rather not limit my apple devices to b/g when I have a decent N router, and would also mean running a huge ethernet cable across my house!
The seller has said it worked for him but he's not up to scratch on his tech, so if I'm sure it's malfunctioning he'll refund. Obviously this is great news and he seems like a very nice guy so I want to be certain it's not me malfunctioning before I send it back!
So in summary I have it functioning on it's OWN network:
Wireless mode: Create a wireless network
Wireless network name: Apple Network XXXXXX
etc
Once 'wireless mode' is switched from 'create a wireless network' to 'join a wireless network' I select my current WiFi, security and password, checked the TCP/IP settings all good. Select 'Update'. Get the warning that device and network will be temporarily unavailable am I sure I want to continue. Then it goes through the same as before, says it's succesful, restarts to flashing amber with no way of accessing it unless I hard reset.
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I have a 5 year old Dell PC and purchased Airport Express last year. I used my iphone 4s to connect and it has been working until recently I lost connection after one of the iphone updates. I cannot make contact with the unit. I have even used an ethernet cable that I hooked to my router and still won't work. I cantinually get this message from Airport Utility. An error has occurred and I can not do anything else.
If you have the AirPort Express setup in Bridge Mode, try changing the Connection Sharing setting to "Share a public IP address"
AirPort Utility - Manual Setup
Click the Internet icon
Connection Sharing = Share a public IP address
Update
You will probably get a message about a Double NAT error. Click to "ignore"
This setting might allow mutliple devices to connect and may not. It's worth a try...I have about a 60-70% success rate at hotels with this setting.
Unfortunately, as you note....hotels have become a lot smarter about connections to their network. At some point, they probably will not even allow another router to connect at all. -
can i use a 2nd iphone if i install itunes on another user account.when i tried to create a second library i messed up both phones, the second one now has all my contacts and when it sends txts it either says its my other phone or email address. i can cope with the first phone and getting it back on itunes but dont want to syn the 2nd phone until i know it is independant of the other one. Does it matter that both phones use the same itunes store account?
Deleting the account on your phone only removes if from your phone. The account and it's data remain intact and doing so will not effect your daughter's phone.
To do this, first go to Settings>iCloud on your phone and turn any synced data (contacts, calendars, etc.) to Off, and when prompted, choose to keep the data on the phone. When finished, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. Then set up a new iCloud account with a different Apple ID and turn any data you want to sync with iCloud (contact, calendars, etc.) back to On. This will upload your data to your new iCloud account. -
Airport Express, WPS, 802.11n and 7.5.2 firmware - can this work?!
Can't believe this hasn't happened to anyone else, but I can't find a relevant thread.
I have a Time Capsule and an Airport Express base station. The Time Capsule was configured as a WDS base station, and the Express as a WDS Relay. The Express is less than a year old, ie 802.11n.
Everything worked beautifully until firmware upgrade 7.5.2 which self-installed on the Time Capsule just as you would expect - except the relay stopped working.
I've tried everything I can imagine, but I can't get the two devices to communicate with each other any more (even with the new firmware on the Express). I have read somewhere on the Apple site that WDS "doesn't work" with 802.11n, but this doesn't fully explain how it did work with 802.11n up until the time of the firmware upgrade to put it mildly. And releasing a firmware "upgrade" that stops existing configurations working, without warning, is not really an Apple thing to do.
One thing I haven't tried is to revert to older firmware; do I really have to do that? Or is there something wrong here please, Apple? Or did I just imagine, for those 9 months, that the relay was working sweetly?!
Don't know if this is related, but Airport Utility almost consistently fails to see both devices if they are both switched on, but can only see one or the other. Is it possible that the Express has developed a fault?
Please help; I have an old house and I can't penetrate most of it without my WDS!!Might this apply?
AirPort Firmware Update 7.5.2 does not install on an extended Wi-Fi base station
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3433 -
I have purchased an item from within the app PocketBible on my iPad. However when I try to download it I am asked for my app User Name and Password and then my Apple ID and password. I give both of these. I then get a message which says Regrant failure - Please log in with the same user that has bought the app. That is then followed by Pocket Bible Alert - cannot connect to iTunes Store.
Anybody got any ideas, both what the 1st alert means and how I get round the problem please.I had the same problem. My wife had the PocketBible on her Ipad 2 and she transferred ownership to me. I had to delete the app and reinstall it from the App store(logged in with my apple ID) and its working without a problem. I do not get those error messages when I attempt to Buy/Upgrade or Add/Remove books.
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Airport Express Password for mac and windows
i have airport express in my office and i have both windows laptops and mac's, i tried to setup a password for the airport and it succeed but the problem when i try to access the airport from windows it ask for password and i use my correct password but unable to connect on it. i am using 12 digital # for the password.
now i have removed the password and all the machines able to connect even the other companies are sharing my internet
is there any way to encrypt the airport? and i want each machine to be asked for the password.
thanksWelcome to Apple Discussions!
One of the advantages of OS X is it has it's own password manager called Keychain Access. Unfortunately Windows doesn't have an equivalent so you have to rely on third parts applications like Roboform. To locate Keychain Access simply click Command-Spacebar and type Keychain Access and Spotlight will locate it.
There is another tool you can try that has gotten pretty good reviews, it is:
http://download.cnet.com/1Password/3000-18501_4-95581.html
I'm not aware of any third parts apps that work on both Windows and OS X so you may be forced to use two solutions.
Regards,
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If I have my iMac internet sharing turned on, the Airport Utility won't recognize the Airport Express I want to use to stream iTunes to my stereo. When I turn the iMac internet sharing off, the Airport Express appears but calls itself a base station. I just bought the Airport Express and it's not clear how I should set up my System Preferences for Sharing. Thx
Yes. Unfortunately the stereo is too far from the wired ethernet connection My iMac is connected to the internet using an ethernet cable from the DSL modem (plugged into the wall, not wireless). The Airport Express is plugged into an outlet 25' away from the iMac and connected to my speakers. I've turned on the iMac Airport wireless Internet Sharing, hoping to stream iTunes to the Express connected to the stereo. The iMac Airport picks up several neighborhood networks so I know it's working (and I connected my iPhone wifi to it just to check as well).
When I use Airport Utility to set up the Express, the only time Utility recognizes the Express is when the iMac Airport is off. When I turn on the iMac Airport, the Airport Utility immediately loses the Express and asks to rescan.
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I have 3 airport express units, an Ipod and a Windows 7 PC. I used the PC to set up an iTunes/airTunes and the AirUtility can see all three of the expresses. The Ipod displays all of the expresses and I can pick any one to stream music to. The PC won't - any ideas? AirUtility tells me the 7.5.2 version of the firmware is the latest for the expresses and ITunes is also reporting that there are no upgrades available. I get an error code -15000 when I try to connect from the PC to one of the expresses.
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To set up the AX to join a wireless network as a "Wireless Client," using the AirPort Utility, either connect to the AX's wireless network or temporarily connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the Ethernet port of the AX, and then, try these settings:
Launch the AirPort Utility.
Select the AX.
If not already connected to the AX's wireless network, go ahead and switch to it when prompted.
AirPort Utility > Select the AX > Manual Setup > AirPort > Wireless
Wireless Mode: Join a wireless network
Network Name: <type in the network name/SSID of the wireless network that you want to join or select it from the pop-up menu>
Wireless Security: None OR, if you are using security on your wireless network:
Wireless Security: <Select the appropriate level of security for the existing wireless network: WPA/WPA2 Personal | WPA2 Personal>
Password: <enter your wireless network security password>
Verify Password: <re-enter the same security password>
Click Update to write the new settings to the AX. -
Airport express setup with iPad and no computer -- possible?
In September I will be staying a week in Germany in an apartment that lacks wireless but does have a broadband LAN connection. I would prefer not to take my MacBook Pro and, instead, rely on my iPad 2. But there's the rub: no way to connect via ethernet. I do have an Airport Express I could take with me. Is there a way to use it, creating my own wireless network, without having a laptop with me and using Airport Utility to set it up? Or am I stuck with lugging my MacBook Pro?
Is there a way to use it, creating my own wireless network
What I do with my Airport Express is to configure it to create a wireless network using DHCP at home before I leave, and then wherever I am, I just plug it in to the network via ethernet cable and turn it on. The Airport Express will grab an IP address from the ethernet network and create its own network that you can connect to.
So far, that has worked for me everywhere I have been.
From reports it appears iOS 5 will have the ability to configure an Airport Express, but we don't know the release date of that. -
Iphone will not connect to airport express extended network - macbook and ipad will - Help
Iphone will not connect to airport express extended network - macbook and ipad will without problems.
iphone will connect to base station no problems, I've restored settings and started again but still the same, the iphone picked up the network for the last couple of months, but not now ?I'm having the same issue. My AExpress used to give a good signal strength on the far side of the house extending he network created by my Extreme. However, I've noticed lately that my iPhone does not receive the same strong signal it once did. AE has a green light, I've rebooted it, and my Extreme but there is no change in signal strength. Other than the green light, how can I tell if the Express is working if I don't get a good network signal?
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