Problem connecting more than 2 clients to Airport Extreme

I have a first-generation airport extreme base station set up with WPA2 personal password and a MacBook, MacBook Pro, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. I have been able to get them all connected to the network but never at the same time. The most I have been able to connect at once are 2 clients, most of them time it's the MacBook and the Xbox. If i want to connect any of the others I have to restart the Airport and the modem and still I am only able to have 2 connected at once.
When i use the MacBook pro, the Airport menu bar icon shows I am connected but it doesn't actually load anything, and the browser status bar hangs on "looking for…".
Anyone experience this? If you want to know any other network settings please ask and I will do my best to track them down. My ISP (Road Runner/Time Warner) claims its an Airport issue.
thanks in advance.

It could be that the Airport Extreme is configured with a range of only two IP addresses. I had my Time Capsule configured with only one IP address, and my iPhone would show that it "found" the wireless network but it didn't show an IP address so it fell back to using the cellular data network.
If this is the problem and if you are using the AEBS as a firewall (NAT enabled), then this should be easy to fix by increasing the range of IP addresses issued by the DHCP function. If you are not using it as a firewall and are just distributing a range of addresses issued by your ISP (very unlikely), then you would need to get a larger address range from your ISP, or set up the AEBS as a firewall to share one IP address.
--Bill

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For aprox 6 months I have had major problems connecting all the wireless machines at the same time. I have played around with the security as per previous posts with varying degrees of success.
I seem to have the most problems with the iMac. The iMac will not join the network when there is any form of wireless security. Every time I try to set up a password it hangs when trying to join and I finally get the "There was a error joining xxxx network".
After more playing around I managed to get all the machines working by having no security on the network and locking the network down by MAC addresses.
Since last Thursday I now have a new problem. The iMac joins and stays on the network perfectly, but the second my second MacBook Pro is switched on and joins the network, the internet connection on the iMac drops out. In addition, as we use the iMac as a media server, all other machines connected to the iMac for either file sharing or iTunes sharing then get the error "the remote machine is failing to respond. Please check firewall settings if there are any". What is strange is that the iMac remains on the network, full signal, independent IP address and the second the MacBook Pro is switched off, works perfectly again.
I have tried wiping both the iMac & the MacBook Pro and re-installing their operating systems, but this only solves the problem for aprox 24 hours then all of a sudden the issue re-appears.
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Perform a "factory default" reset of the AX
o (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044)
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The Mini is about 15 ft away from the AE in a frame construction building, and it always shows 4 bars on the menu strip icon.
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Hello! I have in my home 2 iMac, 2 iPad, 2 iPhone, and 1 air base extreme. I don't succeed to connect more than one divice from similar type. I tried everything what I knew. I build another network, etc...

Hello! I have in my home 2 iMac, 2 iPad, 2 iPhone, and 1 air base extreme. I don't succeed to connect more than one divice from similar type. I tried everything what I knew. I build another network, etc...
So only one imac, only one ipad..and so on simultain.
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I need to disconnect one device to have internet on the second one from the same type!
Could somebody help me?
Many Thnaks,
dan

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Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [WAN] AEBS > (wireless) > Macs, then
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Modem/Router Power ReCycling
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- Power-on the AEBS; Wait at least 5 minutes.
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So the steps listed bellow assume some things. They assume that the Airport Extreme Router your configuring is connected directly to the internet connection. And that the Airport Extreme is the only router between your computers and the internet.
That means we're talking about say a DSL modem plugged directly into the Airport Extreme, or a cable modem. in ether case, this assumes that said modem, is not acting as an internet router.
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Also these steps are so one person, can connect to one computer at your work.
Open Airport Utility:
go to the dock
Click on the finder
go to the menu bar
Click on the "Go" menu
Chose "Utilities" from the "Go" Menu
double Click on "AirPort Utility"
Access the Base Station:
Double Click on your Airport Extreme BaseStation that is your internet connection router.
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For "Reserve Address by:" set "DHCP Client ID"
Click the "Continue" button
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Configure routing to ARD computer:
Click on the "Advanced" icon from the tool bar.
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Click on the "+" button
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Click the "+" button
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Find out what your public internet IP address is.
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connect to the internet from another location.
open Apple Remote Desktop
go to the file menu
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set the address to the address to the IP address you wrote down for step 6. 2.
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Also some network connections change. When it comes to internet connections, some connections are static IP, while other connections are DHCP. If your connection is static... great! if it's DHCP, your address may change. If it dose.. well then your ability to connect will break. And then you'd have to do step 6 & 7 again.
Of corse there are ways around this. But that's kind of another conversation.
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