Should airport express be configured with the same network as my existing router

Should airport express be configured with the same network name as my Verizon router.

Carolyn1962 wrote:
I am new to apple,used to windows.Apple store advised airport express in order to boost my DSL router.In order for it to be most effective should it be under the same settings.Still learning
A router signal can not be boosted as all routers put out the maximum allowed by law. However, proper placement of a secondary router will enable it to "repeat" or extend the signal.
An Airport can "extend" the WiFi created by another Airport. It can not extend a non-Apple WiFi. You need TWO Airport units, one to function as the main radio and the other to function as an extender. I used two Express units.
Configuration is simple if you start from a factory default condition. Connect the main Airport to AC power and finally to the Internet modem (or modem/router). Open Airport Utility on your Mac or other computer and accept all of the recommendations. After confirming that it works, insert your desired administrative and WiFi passwords.
Then connect the extender to AC power. As before, open Airport Utility on your Mac or other computer and accept all of the recommendations. No need to add password info.
Do not expect the Airport to respond instantly to the configuration commands. BE PATIENT!

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I want to be able to use wireless internet and stream music to my stereo at the same time, but I only have a single internet connection behind my stereo and it's connected to the Pay TV. My options seem to be getting a new line installed behind the stereo so I can insert this into the same Airport Express base station I use for my music, or buying a second Airport Express base station and connecting it to one of the other internet connections in the room, then connecting to both Airport Express base stations at the same time.
Is this possible? Are there other alternatives?
Many thanks

Nate, Welcome to the discussion area!
Once you have a network, you can connect multiple AirPort Express (AX) to that network (wirelessly or via Ethernet). When your computer joins that network it can access all the AX.
You could take your current internet connection and run it into an inexpensive router with multiple Ethernet ports (not the AX). If this is a wireless router then your AXs could be located elsewhere and connect as wireless clients to that network. Once you computer joined that network it could stream music to the AXs.

HT4587 I downloaded Airport Express Utility 5.6 to get my Airport Express to work with the latest Mac OSX 10.7.4, but when I install and run it, it still says my Airport Express is out-of-date and needs the 5.6 utility.

I downloaded and installed Airport Express Utility 5.6 to get my old Airport Express to work with the latest Mac OSX 10.7.4, but when I install and run it, it still says my Airport Express is out-of-date and needs the 5.6 utility. What's up?

It is likely that you downloaded AirPort Utility 5.6.1. If you checked the requirements, this only runs on Leopard or Snow Leopard Macs.
You have Lion, so you need AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion

TS3406 My phone doesn't make and receive calls. It doesn't have coverage where other iPhones with the same network do.

My phone doesn't make and receive calls. It doesn't have coverage where other iPhones with the same network do. Please, let me know how way I sort this problem out?

My wife is having the exact same issue after updating to the new iOS 8.1.1 and we've tried all the same steps even restoring the phone as a new phone. We've contacted our service provider and they've told us to go to apple to potentially "remove" her serial number from their servers to allow it to work properly on the service we have. We are desperate as purchasing a new phone right now is not an option and she desperately needs her phone for work and life.
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I have an airport express, which I want to use with my broadband providers router to create a second wireless access point but not with the same network name etc.

In effect, I want to have my providers router working upstairs and the aiport express downstairs connected via wi fi. The airport would have a different network name, then allowing me to connect the children to the access point. This would allow me to turn their network off at times of day etc.
any ideas ?

I want to have my providers router working upstairs and the aiport express downstairs connected via wi fi
Sorry, but the AirPort Express....or any other Apple router......cannot do this.
In order to do what you want, you will need to establish an Ethernet connection from one of the LAN <-> ports on your "main" router to the WAN "O" port on the AirPort Express.
Configure the AirPort Express to "create a wireless network" using a wireless network name, and password that you select. As far as controlling connections, you can use the settings in Timed Access to establish rules about when the kids and cannot connect.

IMac + Airport Express + eMac all at the same time?

I may be trying to do something that isn't possible (but it seems it should be!)
Upstairs I have a 24" white iMac running Leopard, with an ADSL connection.
One floor down I have an Airport Express connected to my stereo, which works, albeit at quite low volume.
Another floor down I have an eMac running Tiger, which connects to the internet via my iMac upstairs. This also works fine.
My question is this: I would like to have the iMac, the stereo and the eMac all running at the same time, but I don't know how to do it. It's a case of the airport express or the eMac, but not both. Maybe it isn't possible?
I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks

You need to configure the AirPort Express (AX) to join the network created by the iMac. Follow the directions in KB 302153, AirPort Express: How to join an existing wireless network in client mode.

How compatible are the airport express and extreme with the 2wire routers?

I have been spending ages trying to set up our connection with a linksys router due to the lack of signal from our 2wire and they just do not want to co-operate. The 2wire is a 3800hgv-b with a special firmware from at&t to be able to be used for tv purposes as well and also so they can control their users. The signal barely leaves the room its in and it seems like this would help boost it to other parts of the house. Is this going to help my problems? Basically I don't want to use the 2-wire as a router just the AX and the 2-wire would just be used for tv. I don't know how familiar everyone is with U-verse but we were given three plug links which all connect to the same network. One goes to the 2-wire and we use one for a wired printer and I'm curious if i could use the last one to connect to the AX and broadcast it from upstairs. The linksys struggled with this because it couldn't act as an access point very well and it was better off with just setting up a new network. Would it be able to act as an access point for the 2wire? Basically I'm just curious if this is going to solve my problems, or at least most of them.

I have been spending ages trying to set up our connection with a linksys router due to the lack of signal from our 2wire and they just do not want to co-operate.
Since the "extend wireless network" feature used by Apple appears to be a proprietary function, it is extremely unlikely that an Apple device would "extend" or "repeat" the wireless signal that is being transmitted from your 2-Wire router.....if this is what you are asking here.
If you were to use both an AirPort Extreme (connected directly to the 2-Wire by Ethernet cable) and an AirPort Express, then you would be able to configure the Express to "extend" the wireless network that is being broadcast by the AirPort Extreme.

Apple TV doesn't show up in iTunes when AirPort Express is running at the same time - Can't play music on both Apple TV and AirPort Express speakers together

Hi there!
I am trying to play music from my Mac on multiple speakers, Apple TV and AirPort Express. But as soon as the AirPort Express station is plugged in, the Apple TV does not show up in iTunes anymore. When trying the same using iPhones Remote app it works perfectly.
Does anyone of you have an idea why iTunes does not show me both Apple TV AND AirPort Express? (it has nothing to to with the IP adress as the adresses are different).
Thanks for any help!

As my english isn't too good I made a screenshot to show you what I mean.
As you can see in the image below iTunes only shows me the computer speakers and the AirPort Express. But at the bottom you can see that iTunes actually recognized 3 different speaker (Mac, AirPort, Apple TV 2). Why does the Apple TV not show up in the multiple speakers window? Any ideas?

HT1998 what is the latest update for Airport Express 802.11n with the Mac OSX10.6.8

what is the latest update for Airport Express 802.11n with Mac OSX 10.6.8?

You can find out as follows:
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click the AirPort Express
Click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Version (3rd line)
If there are any updates, you will be notified.
If there are not any updates, you have already have the latest firmware.

How do I make a wired connection to my Airport Extreme that will share the same network as any wireless connection to it?

Here's the set up.
I have a cable router into the house and then an Airport Extreme connected to it. Everything connects wirelessly to the Airport Extreme apart from one computer in the same room as it, which I wired into the AE with a cable (it's a gaming PC and has no wireless).
How can I get that wired machine to use the same network as all the other wireless devices? When I plug the cable into it, the gaming PC only picks up the network being created by the cable box which I don't use.

There is nothing stopping you connecting to the wireless computers if you have sharing turned on..
How can I get that wired machine to use the same network as all the other wireless devices? When I plug the cable into it, the gaming PC only picks up the network being created by the cable box which I don't use.
I don't quite follow this..
If the cable modem is a router.. the AE must be in bridge mode..
So all routing is handled by the cable modem router.. and the wireless clients will all be in the same IP range as the PC is.. please check that by opening the PC command window and type ipconfig /all
Then go to one of the wireless devices and check that it also has the same IP range.. eg,, 192.168.x.x and same router or gateway address eg 192.168.1.1 and same DNS.. which is the same as the router address..
Then in the command window of the PC use the command ping to see if the other devices respond.. ping it by name or by IPaddress.
If there is no response.. windows has decided it is in a public network.. and slammed up the firewalls.. make sure your network is set as home for location.. and make sure the firewalls .. you can have multiple if you have an internet security package are not blocking local network access.
Also remember PC and Mac in a network can take a bit of fiddling to see each other. But ping should always respond and in both directions.

Can I use two airport extreme base station on the same network

Can I use two airport extreme base station on the same network

Here is my network setup:
D-Link DCM-202 simple cable modem (DOCSIS 2.0 compliant)
attached via ethernet to
5th generation AirPort Extreme Base Station - Main (Bought last week)
attached via ethernet to
4th generation AirPort Extreme Base Station - Remote (Bought about 11 months ago)
The main AEBS is set to:
AirPort Section:
Base Station Tab -> Allow setup over WAN is CHECKED
Wireless Tab -> Wireless Mode: Creat a Wireless Network, Radio Mode: 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g, Radio Channel Selection: Automatic, Wireless Security: WPA2 Personal
Internet Section:
Internet Connection Tab -> Connect Using: Ethernet, Ethernet WAN Port: Automatic (Default), Connection Sharing: Share a public IP address
TCP/IP Tab -> Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
DHCP Tab -> DHCP Beginning Address: 10.0.1.2, DHCP Ending Address: 10.0.1.200, DHCP Lease: 24 hrs
NAT Tab -> The box following 10.0.1. is left blank, Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol box is CHECKED.
The remote AEBS is set to:
AirPort Section:
Base Station Tab -> Allow setup over WAN is CHECKED
Wireless Tab -> Wireless Mode: Creat a Wireless Network, Radio Mode: 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g, Radio Channel Selection: Automatic, Wireless Security: WPA2 Personal
Internet Section:
Internet Connection Tab -> Connect Using: Ethernet, Ethernet WAN Port: Automatic (Default), Connection Sharing: Off (Bridge Mode)
TCP/IP Tab -> Configure IPv4: Using DHCP, IP Address: 10.0.1.2, Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0, Router Address: 10.0.1.1, DNS Server(s): 10.0.1.1 (Everything else under this tab is blank)
Hope this helps with info needed.

I opened a new project with the same name as an existing project and it deleted my existing

Bad day on my part. I spent all day recording a song with Garageband. As I finished it, I exported it to iTunes (Thank God), closed garage band and listened to the song. Hearing that it had several seconds at the beginning that were silence and not edited out I opened a new Garageband project under the same project name as the previous one and it erased everything the previous project had. Leaving me with no file. No project. No memory of the initial project. Any clues or am I SOL?

SchilbAaron wrote:
I opened a new Garageband project under the same project name as the previous one
the OS should have asked if you wanted to replace the old file with this one. if it did not, perhaps you saved this file in a different folder and the old one still exists? You could try a spotlight search on your entire hard drive to see if both files exist.
if you did replace the old with the new, the only real hope is that you have a backup (perhaps you use Time Machine?)
SchilbAaron wrote:
Hearing that it had several seconds at the beginning that were silence and not edited out[...] am I SOL?
if that's the _only_ issue, not completely out of luck. you could drop the audio file back into a new GB project and export an exact length:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportexactlength
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
Note: if you compressed the export (mp3/acc) you'll be double compressing the file and losing a lot of musical information, but it may be better than losing a One-Time piece of work.
an alternate method would be to use an Audio Editor to cut out the silence. i'm not sure that this would save any quality, i think you'll still be double compressing the file, but it's something else to try, and listen to, to make a decision on which is better:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#audioeditors
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Airport Express Won't Connect To Wireless Network

My AE was working perfectley fine until one day everything just stopped working including music streaming. I try doing a facotory reset and then set everything back up again, but when I try to connect it to my wifi i get an error message that states "an unexpected error occured. Please try again" what should i do?

3 things must occur when the AirPort Express is configured to join a wireless network.
You must know the name of the wireless network....you probably do
You must know the password of the wireless network...you probably do
You must know the exact type of wireless security setting that the wireless network is using....you may not know this, but it is crucial that the AirPort Express is provided with the same settings.
Suggest that you contact AT&T support if you do not know the exact type of wireless security that the 2-Wire router is using, so you can then provide the AirPort Express with the correct setting to join the network.

What's the problem with having multiple users with the same UID?

I've got three edit systems connected to the SAN using open directory off our server.
I want all edit systems to have read/write access to everything created. I don't need to protect anything from any of the systems. With all three systems logged on using the same user, I never have to change permissions.
The other cool thing about this is that Final Cut Pro will let me know if someone else is modifying a project that I have open with the warning:
“The project "projectName" has been modified externally. If another user is working on it, saving will overwrite their changes. Do you still want to save?”
This sounds great, right?
RED FLAG!!!! Apple gives the warning in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302450
"You should not allow two users with the same UID to access an Xsan volume at the same time."
So why is it bad to have two (or more) users with the same UID?
I can see that in some situations it means that you can't prevent people from read/write privileges. But I don't want to restrict privileges.
What am I missing? With all of these warnings, it seems like if I do this my edit systems could all explode or something. Please help me understand the potential ramifications of having three users have the same UID.

Hi Russell,
1) If you have OD set up and "editor" has UID 1111, then when they log in to any machine that's bound to OD as editor, they will get UID 1111. Therefore, there won't be any of these permission errors. This is typically the recommended approach.
2) I assume you mean "You'd prefer to not using open directory?" Whatever the case, OD isn't mandatory with Xsan -- it's just that with multiple user accounts, managing them centrally tends to be easier. For 3 or 4 accounts and 3 or 4 machines maybe it's no big deal. If you go larger, it could get a lot more complicated. That said, if you set it up such that each machine has the exact same set of users (as you said, Mary = UID 502, Fred = UID 503, William = UID 504), then you can do what you want. Mary can log in from multiple machines at the same time, and in general you won't have permissions problems. Of course, if you try and read and write the same file from multiple workstations at the same time, you will get file locking issues, which will prohibit somebody from successfully writing the file.
File locking issues are different from general permissions errors. The former basically says "hey, someone else is editing this file. Therefore I won't let you edit it right now... you can read it if you want though." Permissions means somebody saves it, and Xsan thinks you saved it and own the file, when you really don't.
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CDS-18010 Error:A Index and a index with the same name

Hi
I am facing strange error is some one expert there to help me to get rid of this error.
CDS-18010 Error:A Index and a index with the same name 'LA_SP_FK_1' have been asked to be created.
I am generating tables from Data model diagram & getting this error.
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Your Right!!
Designer does not like 2 of the same name.
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