RF Polarization of Airport Extreme Gigabit Internal Antennas

I've taken a "Snow" Airport apart and there are two approximate 1/4 wave elements mounted in an almost slant 45 degree orientation which would give the Airport a good mix of Horizontal and Vertical polarization.
The Airport Extreme Gigabit mechanical configuration is different. Does anyone

I seem to be having issues with a wired connection as well.
With wireless I can load the CNBC homepage in a second, and wired it can take almost 30 seconds to load.
I talked to support twice and we ended up replacing the 2TB Time Capsule.
Same issues with the new one.

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Airport extreme (gigabit ethernet) b/g not working

I have an airport extreme (gigabit ethernet) that I use as my base in an extended network. I Have always had it in Wireless N mode with b/g compatability. the other day my speeds went from being super fast and happy to less than 1mbps. I went and plugged directly in to the airport via ethernet and got blazing fast speeds again.. I switched my radio mode to n only and wireless speeds were fast again.. switched back to b/g compatible and they are in the toilet.. is it possible for the b/g compatible antenna to just crap out? if so this is very disoncerting as I have several wireless devices in my home that operate on b/g and don't want them to be left out in the cold.
Any input is greatly appreciated.

what I did with the b/g testing was I changed the name of the base station to another name so none of the b/g devices that were connecting to it could.. and so it was only the laptop I was using to run the tests.. and still the speeds were terrible.. of course then when I changed it to "n" only mode they were fast again. so I know that my laptop was the only client connected wirelessly or otherwise to the base station when running both tests.
I am extending the network with an airport extreme base station dual band. The solution I have in place currently is to basically swap them. I Have the Dual band running as the main base station in N mode with b/g compatability, and I have the Gigabit ethernet AEBS running as the extender... so far my speeds haven't suffered at all and hopefully it will hold that way. but I still can't understand why the AEBSn would suddenly just stop providing any kind of speed when running as the base in b/g compatibility mode.

Best way to configure Airport Extreme Gigabit 802.11n

Hi, new to this router stuff. Just bought the Airport Extreme Gigabit 802.11n. Seems to be working much better than my old router furnished by my cable company. Still, wondering how to get the most out of it. So, have a few questions...
1. How do I know If I'm getting the "n" connection. Don't know if the modem they gave me works with this. Is there a way to see which connection is working? G/B/N?
2. Channels: I'm on 6 by default. Is it worth trying others to see if one is faster than another? How?
3. Firewall: I was told the router already has a firewall in it. So, turned off the firewall on my mac 24. If true, do I still need to configure this firewall on the router side? HOw? To what? Don't know the best configuration to use as a rookie.
4. Any other ideas to tweek this baby to get the most out of it?
Thanks all. I'll defer to the experts now.

Please check out the following Apple Support article for details on the various options available to you with using multiple base stations for extending a wireless network. If you have any questions or need further assistance please don't hesitate to post back.

How large of an Ethernet Switch can you add to an Airport Extreme gigabit router?

I have a gigabit Airport Extreme router. I like using the Airport Utility to control my network. I want to convert a large number of wireless connections to wired ethernet devices, about 24. The reason is that I just get too many wireless dropouts, and I need a more reliable network. I am looking for the best way to design this. It seems like adding a gigabit Ethernet switch is the easiset and best way to accomplish this. My questions are:
1. How large of a gigabit switch can you add to the LAN port of an Airport Extreme: 24-port, 48-port?
2. How far down can you cascade switches? In other words, can I connect three 5-port switches (level 1 switches) to the three LAN ports on the Airport Extreme, and then connect more 5-port switches to the level 1 switches?
3. What are the performance implications for either design. Can you achieve gigabit performance with these designs?
Thanks for the help.

I have a network with an Extreme base station, 3 Extreme wired extenders and 1 express wired extender - in the mix are four 24 port gigabit switches and two 8 port gigabit switches - so you can add as much as you want within the limits of the internal IP address range which is controling the number of devices on the network.

Airport Extreme using internal dial up modem

Last weekend I bought my mom a new macbook. This is her first computer ever and her first time ever even seeing the internet.
Unfortualtely she lives way out in the boonies and only has access to a dial-up ISP (unless she wants to spend an obscene amount of $$$). I bought her an airport extreme specifically because it has a built-in modem.
The problem I am running into is that I have no idea how to set up her airport connection to use the internal modem in the airport extreme. So far I have sucessfully set a network and connected to it. However when I want to connect to the internet it simply does not dial up. I have looked at the instructions and on the internet and cannot find any info to make the internal modem active. Can anyone give me step-by-step instructions to do this.
What really stinks is that I live in Chicago and my mom lives in the outskirts of Dallas. So I will need to get her fixed up next time I see her. Right now I have her working on a usb modem which is working fine, but I want her to have the freedom of wireless. (Plus I spent 200 bucks to get it for her). Thanks for any help!
Dennis
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) does not support initial dial-up with wired clients. (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301209) So, if, per chance, you attempted a dial-up connection while connected to the AEBS with a wired client that would be the reason.
Setup of the AEBS for dial-up Internet access: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106717
PPP FAQs: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106433

Airport Extreme Gigabit Base Station problem

Today when I tried to get on the internet, my MacBook Pro would not recognize my AEBS. It cannot find it in the AirPort Utility or when I type the name of my network and password into Airport from the Menu Bar. My PowerBook is running fine on the same network. It recognizes and joins the network when it wakes from sleep and it sees the AEBS in Airport Utility.
Last week my MacBook Pro experienced a kernel panic while using Safari over a different wireless network. My best guess is that I may have a bad Airport Express card... is there any way to run a test on it to find out?
Also, my MBP never remembers my networks that I visit requently.... all of them are hidden networks and I have to retype the network and password every time I visit that same network. This is not the case with my PowerBook... and I have no clue why.
Any help is appreciated.
Computer Stats:
PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 10.4.10
MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 10.4.9
Just ask if you need any more info about my computers or about my AEBS.

Hi K,
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. I was beginning to think that I made a mistake in purchasing the Airport Extreme BS (Gig). Since our jobs are printing perfectly when the printer is directly attached to our macs running Leopard, I have to assume this is a wireless issue. Currently, my Extreme Station is configured to run at 5 GHz and backward compatible with the other devices. Unfortunately, because my Powerbook is the only one that can take advantage of the 5GHz range, the base station has to allow for 2.4 GHz as well, and I'm beginning to think this is the culprit but I guess we have no choice. Because the 2.4 range is quite crowded (my cordless phone runs at that frequency), I imagine this might be what's causing the computer and base station to be confused. I hope Apple can fix this and make it more rubust. Incidentally, there is a toggle option in the Airport Utility where it does allow for more "robustness" but warns that this could slow down the overall performance of the network. I tried, but I'm still having the same sort of printer issue as you described. What do you think?

Does new airport extreme gigabit suppotr jumbo frames?

Hallo folks,
does anybody out there know, whether or not, new apple airport extreme support jumbo frames?
I tried, via wire, "ping -s" but no answer received with packets bigger than 1500.
Of course, already set up my macbook to allow jumbo frames up to 9000.
Any hint?
THANKS!! :))

Hi xiello,
Acording to this article, it does not:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30188/96/
Hope this helps,
Jamy

Getting Airport Extreme (gigabit) to extend wireless onto Ethernet network

The people at the Apple store told me I could do this but I'm having a heck of a time figuring it out.
I have a wireless network (satellite internet with a netgear wireless router)...I also have a couple old Mac computers that don't have wireless but DO have Ethernet (the router and the old macs are at different ends of the house and I really can't run a cable).
So what I'm trying to do is get the Airport Extreme to pick up the wireless signal coming from the Netgear router and share it out to the old macs that are currently all Ethernetted together. I was able to accomplish this very easy using my iBook...I just signed the iBook onto the wireless network, went into the Sharing panel and set it to share the connection from wireless to computers using Ethernet...worked perfectly! But I just can't figure out how to do this with the Airport. I don't think this is a WDS situation, so I've been trying to use the 'Extend a wireless network' option in the Airport Utility, but nothing has worked. It seems like one of the main problems is Airport Utility's reluctance to let me use the 64-bit wep password that the netgear router uses. It's a 10 character password that's acceptable by all the computers I have with built in wireless, including my iPhone but the Airport software keeps telling me that it has to be 13 characters.
I'm just lost...any ideas?
Thanks everyone!

Hello Agent*Cooper. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
So what I'm trying to do is get the Airport Extreme to pick up the wireless signal coming from the Netgear router and share it out to the old macs that are currently all Ethernetted together.
This would be an example of creating a Wireless Distribution System (WDS) between the Netgear wireless router and the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn). Unfortunately, most non-AirPort routers are not compatible with Apple's implementation of WDS ... so it very unlikely that your Netgear router can be extended wirelessly with the AEBSn ... unless it's the Netgear WGR614 v6 model.
I was able to accomplish this very easy using my iBook...I just signed the iBook onto the wireless network, went into the Sharing panel and set it to share the connection from wireless to computers using Ethernet...worked perfectly! But I just can't figure out how to do this with the Airport. I don't think this is a WDS situation, so I've been trying to use the 'Extend a wireless network' option in the Airport Utility,
As you already know, Internet Sharing is a feature of OS X and not the AirPort base stations. In addition, the "Extend" feature of the AEBSn is meant to extend the wireless network of an existing AEBSn with another one. Sorry!
I'm afraid that you got a bit of a "bum steer" from the Apple Store folks.

HP Laserjet USB Connection Does Not Work with Gigabit Airport Extreme

I have set up my Airport Extreme Gigabit edition. It works well for wireless internet. BUT, I connected my HP Laserjet 1300 via a working USB cable, and it doesn't print properly at all. This Laserjet uses the HP Universal Drivers in Vista, which should work with the Extreme if anything should. I have set up and located the printer in Bonjour as instructed.
With the PCL6 driver, I get one page that prints out portions of the test page text, but with most of it missing, and then a second page saying:
PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: UnsupportedProtocol
Operator: 0x0
Position: 0
The PCL5 driver prints out "a" page, but the text comes out as solid black lines instead.
I have tried turning the printer on and off, the router on and off, and deleting the printer and re-creating it in Bonjour, as suggested by Apple's technical support document. Nothing works. I have downloaded the latest Windows software and router firmware for this product, both of which were released recently. Same result. I also tried connecting my laptop via a Gigabit port instead of wirelessly to see if that would help. Nope.
I have seen a few postings in other forums (not here) saying that the Airport Express (Gigabit) firmware has problems with HP printers connected via USB, which seems hard to believe given their ubiquity. If that is the case, I'd appreciate a straight answer from somebody on when it will be fixed. Some have suggested just using Ethernet, but I purchased this product (and therefore paid extra) for the USB print server, and expect to get that working.
Thanks very much.

I have an HP laserjet 4L with a usb adapter connected to the airport via a usb hub, and have had little trouble, except for last night it kept printing 1 partial page over and over. I printed multiple pages at once, I figured the printer just OD'd, after all its an old printer. I have one laptop that uses Vista, and its always giving me grief. Vista

Does airport extreme have an international warranty?

do airport extreme have international warranties?

Bob Timmons wrote:
Good luck if you try to get service in a country other than where you purchased the product.
This applies to iPhones and cellular iPads.

Alternative to Airport Extreme Card?

I damaged my internal antenna and may even have damaged the airport extreme card. I have tried home repair but have been unsuccessful. The other alternative is apple care or an apple tech. My warranty has long expired. At the least, this repair will cost $300. I am thinking about just forgetting the airport extreme card and antenna and getting something that plugs into my firewire or USB port. What alternatives do I have? Affordability is an issue.

One possibility is described on this page.
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Time Machine, Hard Drive, AirPort Extreme, and possible damage?

I plugged in an external HD to my AirPort Extreme (gigabit) base station today and started a Time Machine backup to it. After about 8 hours, I had transferred only 12 gigs of my 46 and ended up stopping it. I realize only the initial backup should take forever, but I am afraid that running the MacBook Pro hard drive constantly for hours could damage it. Are the portable hard drives capable of running for hours on end? What's the risk of damaging it?
I didn't notice any major heat issues with the Penryn MacBook Pro while doing this, but I didn't want the hard drive to break either. Plus, the wireless backup just takes way too long. I can't run an N only network because I have older AirPort expresses (WDS), older G clients in the house, and some iPhones that need to get online. I understand that 802.11g is slower than N, but it's way too slow for wireless backups.

Connecting a USB HDD to an Extreme can be used for Time Machine backups, but it is not officially supported by Apple. You will have to start a new TM backup if you are using the Extreme as TM backups to a NAS (vs. local disks) will backup as a sparsebundle (vs. your current folder format). The same goes for backup to a Time Capsule.

Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme + External Hard Drive for iTunes Library

Hi, I currently have an Airport Extreme (Gigabit) and am planning on getting a MacBook Pro. What I want to do is keep my iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive and attach it to my AirPort so I can access it anywhere in the house (and world). Now I have been reading various reviews that perhaps a Time Capsule would be better for my needs. I don't plan on using it for Time Machine backups right now, just as a NAS Drive. If anyone has any experience with this I would appreciate the advice.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Mr. Macintosh693

Hi,
I have something like that working at the moment. My setup is based on a Mac Mini Core Duo [ OS 10.5.6 ] connected to a Time Capsule. I have configured iTunes to store all archived music on the Time Capsule. I use the Apple Lossless format for my CDs and approx 420 titles have taken approx 130Gb from my 1Tb Capsule. In general this setup works well [ especially the optical out of the Mac ] but be aware of the following potential pitfalls:-
1. The Time Capsule is a little on the noisy side and depending on the quality of your playback equipment, your choice of music, ambient noise and your values of "satisfactory" you may want to put your Capsule or HDD in another room. This seems OK for generic playback, but in my experience wireless is not a good way to go for streaming content.
2. iTunes v8.0.2 has a preferences capability to allow you to redirect it's archive to the Time Capsule. However, even if you leave the Capsule switched on it goes into a "sleep" mode. Rip a new CD and iTunes won't tell you this; instead it will silently reconfigure itself to store on your local hard drive and then you're left with the challenge of moving your collection piecemeal if you want it in one location, followed by manually updating iTunes to "point" it to the new location of the music.
One nice thing about the Capsule is that it does allow other connection types. I have mine networked to a PC running Ubuntu Linux and a music player called Amarok and I am able to stream the Mac-Ripped lossless files and play them over Linux perfectly... Works very well. Apparently you can do this with a Windows client and iTunes for Windows, but I don't run Windows as a matter of principle and can't validate that.
My 1Tb Time Capsule runs hot, too. Not dangerously so, but hot to the touch. There are no cooling fans, but you might want to think about placement; it needs plenty of fresh air circulating around it.
For what it's worth [ and I appreciate this is going beyond your question ] I also wanted my setup to be able to store and retrieve recorded TV. I have Elgato EyeTV and a USB Freeview decoder. I quickly learned that despite claims to the contrary the performance of the wireless connection just isn't up to streaming video content. So I went out and purchased a pair of Ethernet-over-mains adapters from Zyxel that are absolutely perfect for the job.
Yes, the Capsule is a little pricey for what is little more than a Hard Drive in a box, but it does work very well.
Beware the timeout disconnections and the silently re-configuring iTunes thought...

Airport Extreme - VDSL25 - IPTV

Hello,
is there anyone who can say me that IPTV ( T-Home Entertain HD ) with the Airport Extreme
( not Wi-Fi) will work?
VDSL-Modem Speedport 221 -> Airport Extreme WAN -> Airport Extreme Gigabit-Ethernet-LAN -> Media Receiver 301
Thank you very much!

Es ist leider nicht möglich mit der Airport Extreme IPTV des Anbeters T-Home zu nutzen. Echt schade! Vielleicht sollte Apple dies für die Zukunft ermöglichen.

Airport Extreme Issues and Set up with Win PC

I have an airport extreme gigabit edition connected via ethernet cables to my 20inch imac and my wifes windows pc also connected via ethernet cable and she has gigabit connection on her system. However, her internet speeds are way slower than mine. I have run adware scanner and made sure it was free of anything that may slow it down that way.
When I set up the Airport Extreme I did nothing more than plug her system in. Is there something else I should have done? Also I can see her computer on the network from both of my macs, but I can't see my macs from her computer.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. She has a book keeping business and does some work from home and she is ready to kill me because of the internet speeds she is getting.
Thanks in Advance,
Jamie

If the AirPort Extreme that you are asking about looks like the product in this Apple information sheet........
http://www.apple.com/airport-extreme/
Then please click the Tech Specs link in the upper right corner of the page and then look down to System Requirements to see what is required to set up and administer the AirPort Extreme.
Once you have the product set up by using a Mac or iPhone / iPad, a PC should be able to connect to the network. Please note that we say "should", and not 'will" here, as the Windows FireWall and Microsoft Security Essentials will sometimes have a way of trying to block the PC from connecting.
As far as providing assistance on how to set up the AirPort Extreme, we would need to know what device you are planning to use for this and the make and model number of your modem.

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