OS X Mavericks and Air Port base station

i just got a air port base station, an old one, and ive just updated my macbook pro to os x mavericks.
when i try to connect to the air port, it says that i cannot configure the air port with the version of air port utillity. apon downloading an older version of the utility, i cannot install it because i get a masseage saying 'the version of mac os x on this volume is not supported'. i would just like to know how i can install the older version of air port utillity tobe able to get my air port to work.
thanks for any help.

I already have the wired router for the phone, and want to go wireless.
You can use the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) or AirPort Express. Configure it so that the option to distribute IP addresses is DISABLED. Connect it to one of the LAN ports on your existing router.
You can also use any other wireless access point.

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TS3549 I recently bought a Mac Book Pro and an Air Port Base Station. I set up the base station using this computer. Now the computer says it cannot detect the base station. I'm trying to get into the settings but it just keeps telling me it's undetectab

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Reboot the network.. Mavericks has these brain slips where it forgets everything on the network.
Restart in correct order.. modem. wait 2min.. AE.. wait 2min.. clients.
Does it work now??
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How can i reset my air port base station deleting all back to new

Hello All...
I'm desprate to get back control of my computer.... Everytime I go to an apple store they look at me like I'm crazy and not once have taken the time to resolve the problem. I have been dealing with what I think a hi jacked computer for going on a year now. My research has lead me to someone obtaining access to my computer o matter what I try. I have had it reset to factory setting way to many time due to thats all these kids at the apple store, great its free but never have they tried to take iniative and see why the problem consist over and over. Someone is obvisously harassing me costing me now almost 1500 trying to fix it. Its not that I have any sensitive information or like I'm in law inforcement, its now become personal. I went to the cops once in LA but they luaghed and told me to talk to the FBI, yeh right. You would not realize how hard it is to find a compuerter tech that or what I would call a master. I would pay top dollar to locate this enity for a few reasons. One peace of mind and two grasping what they are doing to get into my computer at there conveince.
Symtems: it appears new firmware has infatrated my opperating system changing admin rights, new files that have nothing in them, new programs I have never seen. Iy appears what ever I do is copied into files and sent to a 3rd party.
-there appears to be multible access points into this computer, modified bluetooth, severl USB channels, infared conection, eathernet, fire wire connections with mac address I dont reconize. there seems to be a new code in my computer that does not allow me to load anti virus in its full integrity. my phone logs to seem to be recorded on my computer. I have tried everything. I need help to see what is the issue, reward available
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Folder for accepted items: ~/Downloads
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THis is 100% true.
It is happening to me, my home and now my office. Every computer every tablet and my iPhone 4s.
I have studied it thoroughly. Works something like this. They use a BT stack and telephony while they are roaming and they release an incredibly smart and incredibly small package.
It is a variation of ransomeware. It starts by using bt exploits by chainfiring BT drivers and commands from the new dual and quad core android phones. The package that they install on your iPhone, iPad, all tablets as well as Pc and iOS computers starts by disassembling your applications, opening ports and installs VPN. Once they have the VPN it is all over. All of this happens in seconds.
It is scary stuff. Starteed with my iPhone then it uses your phone, tablet etc as a hub and spreads to your other devices. Once u get it it is impossible to get rid of. You need to stop everything go to someone else's house or area on their device and change all your passwords and then start wiping everything 100% format and reinstall with no wireless within range.
Sounds completely crazy but it almost shut my business down and you can call geek squad or any tech and they will think u are crazy. I am in Orange County Ca and I wonder if it is just local because you are the 1st person I have seen with the exact same problem. Once in my PC at my office it jumped to everyone through LAN or BT. I have copies of the original package that was installed with instructions on how to deploy it how to use it.
Nobody will even take you serious when you explain it to them.
Symptoms are your computer is running slow, finding new folders and locked out of your own folders or programs. You then think ok just a virus so you scan but nothing detects it because it encrypts everything it does. I have tried every single virus and malware scanner out there and uses simple scripts to do its job. But as it grows it starts modifying your complete system.
IT is very very dangerous because it is undetectable by any type of virus scanner and once you are VPN locked everything they do looks like it is coming from you. I can scan my LAN and there will be anywhere from 6-10 people using anyone of my devices. I have just given up trying to fight it. It is very personal here as well but cannot stop it. Everything has been wiped but it made a hidden drive/partition on my laptop that starts the process all over again.
You won't get an ip just MAC addresses. It is definitely something new and a new type of bug that no one has seen before. One of the things it did was modify AVG to run endless loops far above what the CPU could handle on my wife's computer and we could not stop any of the processes or shut it down, had to physically take the battery out and unplug it because the laptop got soo hot it was literally burning up. It gets even stranger so I am not going to go on about it and loose all credibility.
It is definitely something you do not want to get but there is some info on the FBI cyber attack website. I think the basic idea is to scramble all of the info and ransom the solution key back to you.

HT4600 Can I use wi fi without air port base station

Can I use any modem for wi-fi connection?

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Of course. You can use the modem and router you want to connect your computer to Internet, and you don't need an AirPort

What are the dashed line in air port express and air port extrem

what are the dashed line in air port express and air port Extrem

The dashed line represents a wireless connection between the base stations.

Hi, I'm using a Mac Pro here. I am trying to connect it with my NAS hard drive. But i could not connect to it because i have an ethernet which connects to the intranet in my company and Air Port for the internet.

Hi, I'm using a Mac Pro here. I am trying to connect it with my NAS hard drive. But i could not connect to it because i have an ethernet which connects to the intranet in my company and Air Port for the internet and it could not detect the the ip address after i input the correct address on "Connect to Server" window. Please help! Urgent! Thanks

I did not say it is not possible.
I said if your company networks are monopolizing both ports, you should talk to them about what options are available.
Maybe you can get the company Intranet over wireless if you change some configuration items such as Subnet Mask.
Maybe you can get on the Internet over Ethernet.
You really need to ask them, and do not let them blow you off because you have a Mac. If they balk, ask them how it would be done on a PC (becasue it will be the same on a Mac).

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How can I tell if my computer (2x2.26 Quad Core Xeon
c Pro) and my Airport Base station(Airport Extreme 1Tb Time Capsule) are Gigabit compatible? I want to add a Cisco switch to the network.
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All Mac Pro's ever made have shipped with gigabit ethernet. The last non-gigabit tower desktop Apple made was the very first generation PowerMac G4's back in 1999.
Similarly, all Time Capsules have been gigabit ethernet as well - never been one that was not.

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Previously they were configured to be part of a network attached to a cable modem. Now I have a DSL modem. I can get the 3TB Time Capsule tower to be recognized by my AirPort Utility but cannot get the older 2TB Time Capsule and Extreme Base Station to be recognised as wifi extensions of the 3TB Wi-Fi Base Station. This latter base station is set up in Bridge mode and the wifi is switched off on the DSL Modem. I am trying to recreate a home network (I have created a newly named one) and use the Apple products as the wifi routers, leaving the fibre optic-supplied DSL modem to interface with the internet.
I would have thought that I should set-up the 3TB Time Capsule Base Station in DHCP network mode, but trying to do so gives me error messages and renders the network inoperative. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get the AirPort utility to recognise the two other devices (Base Stations) as extensions of the main one? I have tried with RJ45 cabel connections to no avail.

First, it would be wise to update your computer to OS X Mavericks. It's just a free update, but it really helps your computer.
Once you've done that, on to the fix.
In Airport Utility, select the old router and click "edit". Click the Wireless tab. Select Off. Click Update, and wait. During the update, you should use your phone to read this, as you may have no wireless for a time.
Once the update is done, click the new Time Capsule and click "edit". Select the wireless tab, and change the Network Mode to "Create a Wireless Network". Choose your name, security and password. Click Update. Once the new Time Capsule is plugged in and wired, you should be able to connect to your network from your laptop.
Back on the old Time Capsule, go to the Wireless Tab and select, "Extend a Wireless Network". Select your network, and click update.
On the Airport Extreme, do the same as the old Time Capsule.
You should be done! Now, you can move your old Time Capsule somewhere else as use it as an extention of your network. And the same with the Airport Extreme. Enjoy your 5TB of network storage!

Disabling ipv6 in iOS 8 and/or Airport base station

I recently replaced my iPhone 4 running iOS 7 with an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.0.2. The iPhone 4 never had any problem accessing wifi, whether at home, at work, or at various other locations.
Ever since getting the iPhone 6 I've been unable to get the wifi to work properly while at home using the wireless net work run from my Time Capsule. It works fine if I connect to a Verizon FiOS wireless router. It works fine at work (Cisco wifi gear, I believe). It works fine at places like Starbucks, etc. It only appears to have issues with connecting to the Time Capsule. When I connect the phone to my Time Capsule I get a strong wifi signal, it's just that anything internet related times out after a long period of time. I'm completely unable to access anything whether in Safari, Mail, or anything else.
I've searched the forums, Google, etc. for help and I've tried re-installing iOS, resetting my wireless network settings, disabling wifi location services, etc. but none of that has helped. It just occurred to me that one big difference between the Time Capsule and most (if not all) of the other wifi access points I'm able to successfully connect to is that the Time Capsule and the iPhone appear to enable ipv6 by default. I'm wondering if the iPhone is trying to establish an ipv6 connection through the Time Capsule. That could certainly explain why all internet access just times out on my iPhone when connected to the Time Capsule.
So as a test, is there any way to completely disable ipv6 on either the Airport/Time Capsule and/or on the iPhone itself? I would love to be able to test this theory out.

This is exactly my point!
Looking at the structure of your network in your post the gigabit wired computers can speak to each other at gigabit speeds but a gigabit wired computer CANNOT speak to an AppleTV through the Wireless 'n' Router at wireless 'n' speeds UNLESS the router has gigabit capable ports.
I can't find one that has, so the maximum speed of transmission of data from a wired computer with iTunes through the wireless 'n' router to a wireless 'n' AppleTV can only be as fast as the ports on the router which is 10/100 mbps which is far below the speeds capable over wireless 'n'.
To put it simply the only way to get wireless 'n' speed transmissions to AppleTV is to feed the data to the base station using wireless 'n' because a wired connection just isn't fast enough (even if the computer has a gigabit ethernet port and is connected to a gigabit switch) because the 10/100 mbps ethernet ports on the base station are a major bottleneck!
I can't believe they didn't think of this!!!

Web Sharing with Leopard 10.5.2 and Airport Extreme Base Station HELP!!!

Ok...I want to set up web sharing on my computer but so far my attempts have failed.
I have an intel iMac with Leopard 10.5.2 installed and I have the latest Airport extreme base station (With draft n).
I turn on web sharing, and of course it works locally but not when trying to be accessed over the internet.
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Now in the network preferences pane and the airport category, i set my computers IP (the 10.0.1.200), I put the gateway as 255.255.255.0, the router as 10.0.1.1 and the DNS as 10.0.1.1
Now going over to the airport utility I added a new entry in the port mapping section, with port 80 (both public and private) and the IP of my machine, 10.0.1.200.
Now in theory this should work but NOOOOO.
Does anyone have the same setup? a wireless network with the new airport extreme base station and has successfully configured Web Sharing?
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Well here is an update.
I saw an entry in apple support that said I had to change some setting in the apache folder /etc/apache2 in order to avoid getting the 403 forbidden error. I tried this and it did not work, i checked my user configuration file as well and the path to my home site directory was correct
Anyone here have a similar setup and has it working? It shouldnt be too hard to set up web sharing through a router. It has to be possible or else a lot of people would not buy a router because of this.
thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to help
Bye.

Please help me connect eMac, cable modem, and Airport Extreme Base Station

I connected Ethernet cord from cable modem to Airport Extreme Base Station and then another Ethernet cord from Airport Extreme Base Station to eMac, but I could not get internet access on my eMac that way. I'm only getting internet access by directly connecting eMac to cable modem. Can someone please help me with a step by step explanation of how to set these 3 machines up so that I can have internet access on both my eMac and, wirelessly, on my new MacBook. Thank you very much in advance.
eMac & MacBook Mac OS X (10.3)
eMac & MacBook Mac OS X (10.3)
eMac & MacBook Mac OS X (10.3)

jenngee, Welcome to the discussion area!
Ensure that you power off the cable modem for a minute or so when you switch it to another Ethernet device.
Ensure that you are connecting the WAN port of the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) to the cable modem. The eMac should connect to the LAN port.
The steps for setting this up can be found in the "Designing AirPort Networks" (direct PDF link) document. Look through that document and try to get it setup. Then return here if you have more questions. Don't forget to post what you tried and the issues you encountered.

Wireless connection to internet with mac pro tower and airport extreme base station?

Hi, I have an airport extreme base station and a mac pro tower without a airport card. My internet wireless router is a great distance from my computer so I can't connect the base station directly to the router. I've attached the airport extreme base station to the tower via an ethernet cable, the base station seems to be wirelessly connected to the home network but the browser is showing "not connected".
Please help.
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Shouldn't the Airport base station be able to connect to it wirelessly?
It might be possible, but the Ethernet ports on the AirPort Extreme would not be enabled, even if it did connect to the Thompson' WiFi signal.
As Tesserax notes, among the Apple routers, only the 802.11n versions of the AirPort Express have the capability to "join" a wireless network with the Ethernet port being enabled.

New Mac and Airport Extreme Base Station User - Setup question

Good Morning,
I just received my new MacBook Pro yesterday along with the Airport Extreme Base Station. I was tying to setup the airport extreme but have had no luck. I want to make sure I'm connecting things correctly - make sure I'm not doing something stupid.
I have a cable modem and I previously had a Netgear router. The connection from the cable modem that had previously been connected to my Netgear router - I disconnected it and connected it to the Airport extreme base station instead. And then I plugged it in. Is that all the connecting that I need to do? I get the flashing amber light.
Now I did read a few other threads and it sounds like I may need to install the Airport Utility that came with the base station. So I'll try that when I get home tonight. But I would appreciate any other suggestions - especially whether or not I've connected the airport extreme correctly to my cable modem.
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I want to make sure I'm connecting things correctly
The network configuration should look something like the following:
Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [WAN port] AEBSn > (wireless) > MacBook Pro
I have a cable modem and I previously had a Netgear router. The connection from the cable modem that had previously been connected to my Netgear router - I disconnected it and connected it to the Airport extreme base station instead. And then I plugged it in. Is that all the connecting that I need to do? I get the flashing amber light.
Since you changed your network configuration, you should perform a complete power recycle of your network components to allow enough time for them to "synchronize."
Modem/Router Power ReCycling
- Power-off the Cable modem, AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn), & computer(s). (Wait at least 30 minutes. If possible, leave the modem off overnight.)
- Power-on the Cable modem; Wait at least 30 minutes.
- Power-on the AEBSn; Wait at least 5 minutes.
- Power-on the computer(s)
Now I did read a few other threads and it sounds like I may need to install the Airport Utility that came with the base station.
Yes, you will need this utility to perform the setup and follow-on administration of the AEBSn.

Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 and Airport Extreme Base Station

I recently purchased an external hard drive and the newer Airport Extreme Base Station. I have two computers. 1 Macbook Pro and 1 PC running Windows Vista. I am having trouble downloading files from the HD over the Base Station to my Vista Machine. I can connect the drive directly over USB to my vista machine and the problem disappears. But when downloading files to Vista over the AEBS i get an error about the Path not existing. I then tried it on my Macbook Pro with no difficulties. I then fired up Parallels and installed the software on my Windows XP image and it works fine. My question is has anyone come up with a fix for this interaction between the AEBS and Windows Vista.

You said you are "using the express to extend my range and play tunes using air tunes". How did you manage to set that up, if neither the Airport Admin Utility nor the Airport Setup Assistant won't allow you to configure these two devices?
Two suggestions:
1. try using another Mac or PC
2. look hard to make sure you don't have some sort of third-party firewall software or VPN client software running on the Mac than is unable to configure your Airport devices.

Configure TC and Airport Extreme Base Stations with different channels

I had to do some serious workarounds to use the Airport Extreme Base Stations as an access point with the same wireless network name primarily due to channel overlap. I thought I would post my results here since I didnt' find a good article online.
Also, I found the Snow Leopard verison (5.4.2) of the Airport Setup Utility far superior to Lion's Airport Utility (6.x) in terms of advanced setup.
Setup is a 3 flloor house where the 3 wired network locations have wireless overlap. The problem was that the access points would not hand off the wireless signal because the channels for each airport/TC were automatically set to the same channel. In non-apple setups, this is how you force a wireless client to switch access points (since the wireless software on your client/mac/windows can detect which access point is stronger and moves to the alternate channel.
Using apple's "Extend this wireless network" option removes any ability to manually configure wireless channels. I am writing this from memory, so feel free to ask questions and I will track this topic:
Procedure
Setup time capsule as your base station. Do all the setup for your wireless and guest networks. Manually configure the network and change the wireless channel to a specific channel for a/b/g networks (e.g., 3) and n networks (e.g, 167).
Plug your first airport extreme/access point into your wired network. Do not plug it into the "internet" ethernet plug, use one of the 3 ethernet switch locations
Use the airport utility to first configure it to "extend" your wired network.
Then, go in and reconfigure it manually in the airport utility. Choose the option to setup a "new network" and name the network the same as the TC wireless network name, security, etc.
Change the channel from "auto" to a different channel than the TC (e.g., 6 and 137).
Now go to the top tab and click on the "internet" icon
Go to the DHCP tab and change it to "bridge mode." This will tell the AE to not give out IP addresses (the TC will do this for you). If you get an error that the IP ranges conflict, you have not done this
Note that if you have a guest network setup, you will need to set this up on the AE as well.
Now test your airport setup. Take your client (macbook, iOS device) and connect to your network. Move to a spot near the TC and pull up a web page. Keep an eye on the signal strength and beginv moving toward the AE. Refresh the page as you move around. You should at some point see the signal strength increase. Refresh your page again. You should be now connected to to the AE. I have found that Macbooks do a better job than iOS devices because you get an extra signal bar to measure strength, and they have larger antennas which allows you to better measure problems with handoff
Another test you can do is to start backing up on your TC and then test the move. The handoff will truly show you that the TC is handling the process but the AE is relaying to the TC for backup.
If you need to setup another AE, simply follow setups 3-10.
I hope this helps others. I've done this setup 100 times on Linksys devices and although they are cumbersome, they at least allow me to do this setup much more quickly and easily than the apple products.

I had to do some serious workarounds to use the Airport Extreme Base Stations as an access point with the same wireless network name primarily due to channel overlap. I thought I would post my results here since I didnt' find a good article online.
Also, I found the Snow Leopard verison (5.4.2) of the Airport Setup Utility far superior to Lion's Airport Utility (6.x) in terms of advanced setup.
Setup is a 3 flloor house where the 3 wired network locations have wireless overlap. The problem was that the access points would not hand off the wireless signal because the channels for each airport/TC were automatically set to the same channel. In non-apple setups, this is how you force a wireless client to switch access points (since the wireless software on your client/mac/windows can detect which access point is stronger and moves to the alternate channel.
Using apple's "Extend this wireless network" option removes any ability to manually configure wireless channels. I am writing this from memory, so feel free to ask questions and I will track this topic:
Procedure
Setup time capsule as your base station. Do all the setup for your wireless and guest networks. Manually configure the network and change the wireless channel to a specific channel for a/b/g networks (e.g., 3) and n networks (e.g, 167).
Plug your first airport extreme/access point into your wired network. Do not plug it into the "internet" ethernet plug, use one of the 3 ethernet switch locations
Use the airport utility to first configure it to "extend" your wired network.
Then, go in and reconfigure it manually in the airport utility. Choose the option to setup a "new network" and name the network the same as the TC wireless network name, security, etc.
Change the channel from "auto" to a different channel than the TC (e.g., 6 and 137).
Now go to the top tab and click on the "internet" icon
Go to the DHCP tab and change it to "bridge mode." This will tell the AE to not give out IP addresses (the TC will do this for you). If you get an error that the IP ranges conflict, you have not done this
Note that if you have a guest network setup, you will need to set this up on the AE as well.
Now test your airport setup. Take your client (macbook, iOS device) and connect to your network. Move to a spot near the TC and pull up a web page. Keep an eye on the signal strength and beginv moving toward the AE. Refresh the page as you move around. You should at some point see the signal strength increase. Refresh your page again. You should be now connected to to the AE. I have found that Macbooks do a better job than iOS devices because you get an extra signal bar to measure strength, and they have larger antennas which allows you to better measure problems with handoff
Another test you can do is to start backing up on your TC and then test the move. The handoff will truly show you that the TC is handling the process but the AE is relaying to the TC for backup.
If you need to setup another AE, simply follow setups 3-10.
I hope this helps others. I've done this setup 100 times on Linksys devices and although they are cumbersome, they at least allow me to do this setup much more quickly and easily than the apple products.

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