Removing Clients From Airport Extreme

Is there a program out there(whether it be for a mac or pc) that is capable of removing people that are connected to my airport? For instance, if my neighbor is using my wifi, is there a way to disconnect him?

Is there a program out there(whether it be for a mac or pc) that is capable of removing people that are connected to my airport?
None that we are aware of.
The most effective way to remove someone that you suspect may be using your network is to change your wireless network password.
Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless label below the row of icons
Enter a new password* (write this down)
Confirm the new password
Click Update at the lower right to save your new settings
*A good password is a non-dictionary word consisting of letters and numbers
Keep in mind that you will now need to enter your new password to log on to your network.

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Hello. I have an older airport extreme: the alien one. For years I have had the following setup:
Modem --> Belkin Router --> Airport Extreme --> wireless signal to macbook and hardwire line to mac pro. There is also an airport express downstairs acting as a relay to boost my wireless signal. At the time i did it I had other computers so i needed the router to distribute the internet signal. I no longer need the extra capacity as I now only have a wireless macbook and a wired mac pro. Unfortunately when I disconnect the Router and connect the modem directly to the airport I no longer get internet service at either computer. I can't figure it out. The Airport Extreme is already sending all the signals to the two computers...the router is just sitting in the middle doing ostensibly nothing at all. Why, when I take it out of the loop does everything stop working? Thank you!!

Welcome to the discussion area!
Your AirPort Extreme was configured in "Bridge Mode" when it was used with the Belkin router.
Since the Extreme is now the main router, you must configure the Connection Sharing setting for "Share a public IP address".
If you are still using Tiger 10.4.x as your profile indicates, you may still have the application that came with this operating system...AirPort Admin Utility. I cannot remember back 4-5 years to tell you much about this.
If you have upgraded to Leopard or Snow Leopard, you'll use AirPort Utility.
I can help you if you have AirPort Utility. Post back if you need help.

How far away can you connect to the internet from Airport Extreme (802.11n)

How far can i take my Laptop away from Airport Extreme (802.11n) and still have internet connection

According to:
http://www.apple.com/au/airportexpress/
They claim the Extreme has a 45m range:
"Suppose you want to connect to the Internet with your PowerBook in an area that lies beyond the 45 metre range of your AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme Base Station"
Will you be using all N devices? G?, B? or a combination?

How do I remove an external hard drive from airport extreme using airport utility 6.2

I want to remove an external drive from my airport extreme but unsure how to do so (apart from just unplugging it). I need to take it away and hopefully plug it back in later. Any advice would be appreciated.

Unfortunately, AirPort Utility 6.2 does not provide you with the option to "unplug" a drive.
If the drive is mounted on your desktop, simply drag its icon to the Trash.....or.....right-click the disk icon and choose the Eject option.
Now you can disconnect the hard drive from the AirPort Extreme.
If the drive does not appear on the desktop, then you can simply physically unplug the drive.

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1. How can I remove old, unwanted, network names and info from my Airport Extreme?
2. Could the presence of the old network be interfering with connection to new Hughes Gen4 satellite network?

2. Could the presence of the old network be interfering with connection to new Hughes Gen4 satellite network?
It's possible. But, interfererence can also come from cordless phones, other wireless networks in your neighborhood, and any number of other sources.
1. How can I remove old, unwanted, network names and info from my Airport Extreme?
Are you asking how to turn off the wireless function of the AirPort Extreme because it is no longer needed?

How to disconnect drive from airport extreme

Hi,
I have a gen5 airport extreme and have a number of hard disks connected to it.
What is the best /safe way to disconnect the drives so I can unplug them when I want to.
Thanks in advance
Richard

Bob,
So just like unmounting an external disk mounted to my MAC.
Unfortunately there are a couple of other users of the extreme (PC and MAC), so I would have to unmount these as well.
The reason I ask is after searching the web there were some concerns expressed.
In previous version of the extreme there was an option to disconnect all users, it is not there in the latest version, however there is an option to disable file sharing, which was provided as an option as well.
I did ring local Mac store and they did not know.
Based on your approach does this seem reasonable, to be run from my MAC
1, Start Airport extreme utility
2. You can see what wireless clients are connected to it by clicking the extreme icon in the utility
3. if none of the other users could be accessing the drives (eg IPOD,IPAD) then proceed to 5
4. Any users that could be accessing the drives then go and close them down
5. Unmount the AIrport Extreme from my MAC as you suggested
6. Unplug disks.
May be disabling file sharing would do he same
I have a a couple of disks hanging off, so would be good to be able to unmount just one device from Airport, seems like a good enhancement for that utility, I reckon.
Thanks for help
Rich

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

Upgrade card for Core Duo iMac to benefit from Airport Extreme

I just bought Airport Extreme for "n" speeds. I didn't realize it required Core 2 Duo for the fastest speeds. Does anyone know of an upgrade card I could install to my Core Duo iMac? Thanks.
iMac Core Duo, iMac Core 2 Duo, MacBook Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

There is an article floating around the web of
removing the 2 antennae extreme card from a Mac Pro
and installing it in a MacBook to get 802.11n
connectability, but the connection isn't reported to
be any better or faster.
Also, everything on the network must be 802.11n to
get the n speeds. A mixed network is slower.
I just took the Airport Extreme 802.11n module out of my Mac Pro and installed in my CoreDuo MacBook Pro. After applying the enabler patch off the CD, my network connection speeds report as 270mb connecting to a wide-band N-only Airport Extreme Base Station.
Performance boost on initial file transfer speeds are significant. A 203mb test file took 6+ minutes on my G-only network. The same file, on the N-only network took 49 seconds.
I would call that both better and faster.
Of course for those looking to use it on the mixed B/G/N networks to surf the web aren't going to notice any difference. I think a lot of people forget that regardless of their wireless network speed, even on the fastest of home broadband connections they're not going to be getting more than 8mbs coming into the WAN side of the network if they're on fiber cable. A DSL connection might get 2mbs. The internet itself for most will be a significant bottleneck for most users.
If you're doing a lot of transfers of large files on your internal LAN, the performance is worth the $49 part.
What's really bizarre is that Apple chose to put 100mbs wired ethernet ports on the Airport Extreme Base Station, which means when I hook a USB drive to it, I should actually get faster transfers wirelessly than wired. How bizarre is that?

Airport Express G getting Port Forwarding to work from Airport Extreme N

I have an Airport Extreme N connected to a cable modem. I have an Airport Express G in another room, connected to a Local Ethernet Network. The AE G is setup as a WDS Remote to the AE N. Connectivity works and all is well.
What doesn't work is when I try to forward ports from the AE N to a device/system connected (via ethernet) to the AE G. The kicker is the port forwards work from "inside" the network. Outside they don't. I have been able to forward ports to anything connected to the N directly or wirelessly.
Any thoughts on what the proper configuration of the AE G or the AE N to get port forwarding to work from the AE N through to the clients of the AE G?
I have DHCP, and the clients of the AE G are getting IP addresses and working as they should.

I checked that. I can forward ports all day long to anything connected directly (or wirelessly) to the AE N. Anything connected to the AE G, ports won't forward. For some reason the AE G in bridge mode is not letting ports forward through.
Thanks for responding, though.

Maximum number of DHCP clients with Airport Extreme (802.11n)?

I see in the documentation that the number of wireless clients that the new Airport Extreme can handle is 50, but it doesn't indicate that it can handle more than 50 via the LAN ports.
Has anyone connected one of these units to a network with more than 50 simultaneously connected (wired) computers?
Thanks much.
Scott
Ti PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Yeah, I knew I'd have to answer that question eventually. I debated including that information with my initial post--I should have. Sorry.
I realize that it's a home unit, and it will be when I'm done. I need to set something up as a temporary solution for a LAN party at our college, but I need to keep it separate from our regular network.
I've got all the switches I need (we usually get by with 3 unmanaged Cisco 24-port switches). I'm just looking for a solution that is simpler than reconfiguring a Linux machine as a DHCP server and gateway for a three-day LAN bash--I am more interested in the DHCP server functionality. So, has anyone seen one of the new units give out IP addresses to more than 50 clients?
Thanks,
Scott

Unsteady connection of MacMini client to Airport Extreme

I have 2 clients to my Airport Extreme: an iMac and a MacMini, both running 10.5.7.
The connection of the iMac to the wireless network is rock solid. The Mini, on the other hand, regularly loses its connection, always after a logout or switching users. Each time the user logs out and back in she is required to supply the AE password.
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.
I also had to give up having the Mini back up to a disk connected to the AE via its USB port, due to the connection failing often and generating lots of messages in the system log.
I am convinced that this is one and the same problem.
Why does one client have a reliable and persistent connection and the other just the opposite?
I would be grateful for any suggestions ...

Thanks for the suggestion - I've connected the APExpress to the APExtreme via ethernet and can now see both via APUtility. When I try to perform Manual Setup on the APExpress I get the error message -6753 "An error occurred while trying to access the Apple wireless device".
I've noted that the IP Address on the APExpress falls outside the DHCP range managed by the APExtreme - could eb the root of teh problem, but not sure how to get into the APExpress to change it...

Constant Disconnection from Airport Extreme Networked iMac (late 2009)

I keep trying to copy fairly large files (2-7GB) over my Aiport Extreme (latest—5th generation) network from a early 2011 Macbook Pro to a 27" iMac (late 2009), and I keep getting disconnected from the iMac while the file is copying. I've tried repairing permissions on every computer in the house and restarting them, but I'm still having issues. I have no issues copying files to another late 2011 Macbook Pro in the house, so it seems to be happening only when I copy them to the iMac. The iMac is running Snow Leopard and the Macbook Pros are running Lion, so could that have something to do with it?
Additionally, I had been trying a wireless extended network with another previous generation Airport Extreme, but I found the connection wasn't much stronger with the extension, so I've just been leaving the second Airport Extreme unplugged. I've had that unplugged for months and haven't had any issues, so I don't think that's the problem.
I'm hoping this isn't a sign of something being wrong with the Aiport card in the iMac. Anyone have any ideas?

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Pc with windows xl/sp3 can't connect / acquire ip address from airport extreme; meanwhile, my macbook in connecting fine. We have a wpa2 personal password

My husband's Dell with Windows xl (sp3) can't get an ip address from our new airport extreme. Nor can my daughter's Windows 7 computer. There are no firewalls in place. Both computers worked with my old Airport, though it was sssslllllllowwww. My Macbook works fine and is super fast compared to the old airport. We are using a wpa2 personal password.
Anyone out there have a cure for this problem so we can hook up those sad pcs?
Thanks a lot.
Elizabeth

First, make sure that the new Airport is configured exactly the same as the old one. Hopefully you saved the configuration settings in a file and can look at them to be sure.
If the Windows PC's can't connect with the same password, it's possible that the PC's were using an older wifi protocol like 802.11a or b. The new Airport is backwards compatible but has to be setup that way check to see what versions of 802.11a the windows computers support and make sure that the wireless mode of the airport is setup to accomodate them.
Can the PC's get an IP address if they are connected to the AirPort using an ethernet cable? If they can, that would help naorrow things down to a wireless issue and not some other configuration problem.

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Is there a way or additional hardware that will boost the strength of wifi in my house. I have router connected to AirPort Extreme which is great in that part of the home but very weak reception on second floor far from unit.

If you want to increase wireless range and coverage try mounting it on the ceiling or wall like with this product:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IRSDKX6
It optimizes the 11n/ac speed and throughput so that you can get great performance from your Apple Extreme throughout the entire house!
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

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