Only one Airport Express will work at any given time
Hi,
I use one Airport Express to connect to the internet and another to stream iTunes to my Stereo.
I can only get one to work at any given time!
If I use Airport SetUp Assistant to reconfigure the one that isn't working, it starts and the other stops.
I can only ever see the current one in Airport Admin Utility.
Airport SetUp Assistant shows me two.
What's up?
Best regards,
Ronnie
OSX.4.7
iMacG5 & MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Have a look here and read it carefully.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454
Cheers Don
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