Toshiba 4015 , Linksys wpc11 , Extreme Base Station cannot connect! Help

I have one IP address coming into a wired router(linksys bsr41), The router has two good ports. I go directly from one port to a homemade pc and to the airport extreme base station with the second. I have a mac mini wired to the port on the base station. I use imac g5 wirelessly with no problems.
I am trying to set up a Toshiba 4015 CDS to use wirelessly on my deck and I am having a lot of trouble. The Toshiba is upgraded to win 2000 and has 160 meg Ram. I am attempting to connect to the base station with a link sys wpc 11 wireless - b card. I have tried to change numerous setting on the base station but with no luck. I have power to the card but no link. I have used the linksys utility and it can't see the aebs and have tried a 3rd party utility recommended by linksys(freescape????) but it cannot see the base station either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I connect through dsl. Thanks, Mike

When I connect cable to the lan port , I cannot connect with dhcp or with dhcp disabled.
I tried both... restarting aebs and imac wireless and could not connect. When I disable dhcp I am forced to enter manual settings and I am not sure I have correct Ip address since it is behind my router. My internet provider said my base station would have to be behind the router because of a cloned ip address. I am not quite sure what that means. Thanks again for the help.....I have a xmas party to go to but will try further recommendations when I get home.

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Airport Extreme Base station cannot connect to Westell C90-36R516-01 DSL modem

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I just purchased a new Airport Extreme Base station for my 15" Macbook Pro. I set everything up this morning per the docs (all cables are connected properly) but the Airport Extreme is flashing an amber LED, which means it cannot establish communication to the network/Internet.
I'm using an old Westell C90-36R516-01 DSL modem that has been working fine up until now. I've tried switching out the Ethernet cables and different powering on/off combos but nothing appears to work. When I connect the Ethernet cable directly into my laptop, I have to power down the DSL modem, power it back on, and then do several refreshes before I finally get an Internet connection.
I read a previous post about unplugging the modem overnight and then plugging it in the next morning to wipe out the MAC address setting. I will be trying that tonight, but I was wondering if there was anything else I could try in the meantime? Or, is it simply a matter of having to get a newer modem from Verizon because this one is 7-8 years old?
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Hi Max,
Let's start from the beginning,
The ethernet from the modem should be wired to the Wan port of the Airport...
On page 28 of the users manual it says if the light flashes amber you should unplug the power of the modem, wait a few seconds and power up the modem.
I presume you installed the Airport utility from the disk that came with the Airport?
For more information about the reason the light flashes
Open AirPort Utility, select your base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu. ClickBase Station Status to display information about the flashing light
Here is a link to the Manual CLICK HERE
I was hoping to find out more about the Airport utility to see what's it's capable of doing...

Airport Extreme Base Station Internet Connection issue

I have a connection question for Airport Extreme Base Station.
I have Comcast cable broadband. I connect that to a Linksys router for
use with my Vonage phone, and then from the Linksys router I connect
via Ethernet to my iMac. I like the direct Ethernet connection for
performance reasons.
In order to set up a home network to connect my Tivo's (and eventually
my PC and printer), I have set up an Airport Extreme Base station and
connected it to the Linksys router from it's ethernet connection to the
WAN (cable modem) input on the Extreme.
I have connected to the Airport network with my iMac, but since I am
connected to the Internet via Ethernet, I cannot tell if my Airport is
connected to the Internet so that I can use it for my Tivo. My PC is
still in storage from a move, so I can't check with that.
My question: How can I tell if my Airport is connected to the Internet
without disabling my Ethernet connection on my iMac?
A few more info points/questions in case it helps answer:
1) I previously used this Airport to connect this iMac wirelessly.
2) Should I be connecting it to the LAN port since it's coming out of
the router?
3) If the connection issue is because I am going through the Linksys
first, can I connect the modem to the airport and then use the LAN port
to connect to the Linksys router?
4) If I have to disable the ethernet connection to test the Airport,
how do I do it? Just unplug it?
I appreciate any help as the online and manual help from Apple is not
quite up to par with such a complex configuration.
Regards
Bill

2) Should I be connecting it to the LAN port since it's coming out of
the router?
No, connecting to the WAN port is fine.
3) If the connection issue is because I am going through the Linksys
first, can I connect the modem to the airport and then use the LAN port
to connect to the Linksys router?
The issue is that you have two routers which effectively creates two networks. Unless this was your original intent, you will want to setup the AEBS as a bridge.
To set up the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) as a bridge, using the AirPort Admin Utility, connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the LAN port of the AEBS, and then, make these settings:
Network tab
- Distribute IP addresses (unchecked)
- Apply the new settings.
- Wait at least 5 minutes.
4) If I have to disable the ethernet connection to test the Airport,
how do I do it? Just unplug it?
Well, that's certainly one way, but an easier way is to temporarily disable the "Built-in Ethernet" in your network configuration.
System Preferences > Network > Show > Network Port Configurations
- Built-in Ethernet (unchecked)

Using AirPort Extreme Base Station to Connect a Hard Drive

I have a wireless network set up using a wireless device provided by my network provider. What I would like to do is to use my Airport Extreme Base station only to connect a hard drive to it. However when doing so, Airport Utility does not recognize or see the Extreme. The Extreme can only been seen if connected to the router provided by my network provider. How can I set up a wireless hard drive or printer with the Extreme without connecting to the network?

Samir, why you wanna use service provider wireless instrument when you have world class wireless device
you don't need 2 wireless ???
I am not expert but I used common sense, I had linksys N series router but recently I bought TC 1TB
so what I dumped my N router in store and went ahead with TC installation, Trust me it took me 10 minutes to configure my 4 HDD 5 computer printer etc with TC
I am sure you have a ethernet modem too separate from your wireless instrument
try to do a clean installation ( thats where all these people who has problem, trying to connect to their existing network
try setting up your AEBS as fresh wireless device connect to your modem and run Airport Utility
I am sure you will be a happy apple customer
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Airport Express - Extreme Base Station - MacBook Connection PLEASE HELP!

Ok, i thought i had a pretty good idea of what i was doing with my mac stuff but apparently not, can someone talk me through how to set up the following - i've google and searched forums far and wide and cannot seem to find a simple walk through guide, even read the manual. The Airport Express manual online still says you can only stream to one device at a time.
I have an Airport Extreme Base Station broadcasting a DSL connection from a router - works a treat. I also have 1TB WD Hard Drive plugged into the Base Station which works as a shared AirDisk - also works a treat. I have two stereos at each end of the house and got my hands on two Airport Express devices (Models: A1084 and A1088).
I've gone through every possible scenario in setting these up to join the network but once they're 'joined' there no sign of them, and they no longer show up in my Airport Utility so can no longer configure them, thus having to reset them and start again.
I've tried a) setting up a WDS network, the base station as the main and the express' units as remote. No show in iTunes and no real show of being on the network at all; and b) tried leaving the existing network as is and joining the express' to that, again, they supposedly 'join' (i assume, only because they no longer show up as their own network) but do not show up in iTunes. As far as I've tested and found, I have the latest of all versions of software / firmware available, including Leopard, iTunes and Airport Utility... HELP! It's driving me MAD! And a thousand thank you's in advance...

Thanks for your help, after trouble shooting to no end, I've discovered it has something to do with the WEP password I was using and after reading through many a support article I found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2098?viewlocale=en_US - however, the $ sign doesn't seem to work to when setting up the Express' (even tried making the password the very one used in that article) and when I set the network up initially, it seemed my flatmates PC's only joined the network if I used a WEP password, rather than a WPA that i'd rather use.
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Extreme Base Station Loses Connection When Slept

To improve overall system security, I recently changed my account from an Administrator to a Standard Account, and created a separate Administrator's Account. Now whenever I or another user start up from sleep mode, enter our standard user password, the airport connection is lost and an admin password is required to get it going again.
Is there any way to ensure that the connectivity is not lost when sleeping, or it is automatically reconnected when awoken from sleep, without the use of an Administrator's password?
2GHz dual G5, ATI X800 XT, 2 X 500Gb HD, LaCie D2 1Tb, 3.5Gb RAM , 23" HD Panel Mac OS X (10.4.9) Airport Extreme 802.11 (n) / 802.11 (g) on on G5 Mac Pro

djeddy, Welcome to the discussion area!
When switching the cable modem's Ethernet connection from the MacBook to the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS), you should power off the cable modem for a minute or two (often longer).

External hard drive on Airport Extreme Base Station - need some help!!

Can you suggest an external drive make and model that works with the extreme? Need around 300 gb?
What format should the drive be in so my Windows Vista and Windows 7 and my mac will be able to backup to it?
What backup software do you recommend that I run on my Windows Vista and Windows 7 PC to it?
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Can you suggest an external drive make and model that works with the extreme? Need around 300 gb?
There are literally dozens of external USB hard drives that will work with the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn), but of course, not all. Please check out the following iFelix site to see some that are not recommended. FWIW, I currently use both a Newertech miniStack v3 (750 GB) & a Western Digital MyPassport (500 GB) with my AEBSn without any issues.
What format should the drive be in so my Windows Vista and Windows 7 and my mac will be able to backup to it?
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What backup software do you recommend that I run on my Windows Vista and Windows 7 PC to it?
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Airport extreme base station cannot get a workable IP address

I see this is not a new issue, but I haven't been able to find a solution from any of the discussion or FAQ's that works. My internet provider is Comcast. All of a sudden my airport base station could not secure a workable IP address. Resetting, powering off, etc., did not fix the problem. I thought it might be with my base station, the saucer type, so I bought a new one. Same problem. If I bypass the router and plug directly into the computer there is no problem the computer connecting directly from the modem works fine. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thank you for your help.

I am having a similar problem. I just purchased a Time Capsule with airport/router built-in. I setup it up 2 days ago and it was a breeze. My iMac, Macbook Pro, and 2 iPhones connect to it wirelessly via DHCP with no problems. Suddenly this morning my Macbook Pro and 1 iPhone cannot get an IP address, other than the dreaded 'Self-assigned' 169... address. I can get an IP with my Macbook Pro connected via Ethernet with no issues. I did not change ANY settings. How is this possible? Also, I have a guest network setup on the second band and all of my devices can connect to that with no trouble, even the said Macbook Pro and iPhone. iMac has been connecting all along to everything. I've tried the following on the Macbook:
- Removed Airport, rebooted, re-added Airport, rebooted
- Forced a manual IP address (yes outside the range of DHCP reserved addresses)
- Removed power / rebooted Time Capsule
Nothing works. I know my wireless card is fine because I can get an IP from the guest network. What gives?

Airport Extreme Base Station cannot see with Macs

Out of the blue my Macs are experiencing a problem seeing the base station network. I can see it with my iPhone. I have a PowerMac G5 duel core 2 Ghz and cannot see the base station or it is sporadic. System says that the airpot card is recognized on my G5. Other Macs on network experiencing the same issue. Tried turning everything off and restarting. This only works part of the time.
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Hi Max,
Let's start from the beginning,
The ethernet from the modem should be wired to the Wan port of the Airport...
On page 28 of the users manual it says if the light flashes amber you should unplug the power of the modem, wait a few seconds and power up the modem.
I presume you installed the Airport utility from the disk that came with the Airport?
For more information about the reason the light flashes
Open AirPort Utility, select your base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu. ClickBase Station Status to display information about the flashing light
Here is a link to the Manual CLICK HERE
I was hoping to find out more about the Airport utility to see what's it's capable of doing...

Airport Extreme Base Station to connect MacBook Pro to internet?

With a new MacBook Pro do I need an Airport Base station or something other purchase (product) to connect to the internet wirelessly while I travel?
Thank you very much in advance for your time in this matter.

Duane is correct.
The wireless is built in. Whoever you are connecting to will have a base station. If you want wireless at home you need a base station connected to your internet connection.
Good luck.

ANOTHER Airport Extreme base station dropping connections

I think my network connectivity problems predate the latest Airport software update by a few days.
Our MacBook Pro's randomly drop an Airport connection when they are near a secondary access point operated in Bridged Mode.
My one-year-old Airport Extreme/Time Capsule had been working fine in 2.4GHz b/g/n mode with a gigabit switch and a link to a Comcast cable modem, all set up in the northwest corner of the house. I decided to replace it with a new, dual-band Airport Extreme/Time Capsule so that we could separately operate a faster 5GHz "n" network for modern notebooks along with the 2.4GHZ b/g/n network for older notebooks and iPhones.
We substituted the new Airport Extreme/Time Capsule for the old model and it now serves IP addresses to 5GHZ network devices. The old Time Capsule was moved to a new location in the southeast corner of the house, connected to the network via Cat 6 Ethernet, and also set it up to join the same 5GHz wireless "n" network in Bridge Mode -- it is an access point, but not serving DHCP addresses.
Now, whenever a laptop is near that device, it accesses the LAN through that Airport Extreme's 5GHz WIFi connection. The problem is this: every few hours (though sometimes sooner - its random), our MacBook Pro's lose their network and Internet connections (not simultaneously though). This only happens if the laptops are physically closest to the older, Bridged wireless access point. It can happen in the middle of Web surfing and always, when they wake from sleep. It NEVER happens if the notebooks are physically closer to the new Airport Extreme (and hitting it's 5GHz signal) and the iPhones NEVER lose their Internet connection to the separate 2.4GHz b/g/n network.
When it does happen, we have to Restart the notebooks to re-establish an Internet connection, though I suppose restarting the Airport Extreme/Time Capsule also might re-establish the connection. Sometimes, I can just move my laptop back to the northwest corner where the main Airport Extreme/Time Capsule is located and get right back online through that access point. But usually, I just sit in the back room, restart and rejoin the network through the secondary, wireless access point. Turning off/on Airport (at the MacBooks) accomplishes nothing and neither does Network Diagnostics.
This affects two new, MacBook Pro "n" laptops running 10.5.8, but does not affect the iPhones. So, it only seems to be a 5GHz issue. I don't think it's RF interference because I've tried three different 5 GHz channels. I've also tried reducing the secondary Airport Extreme's transmission power to 50% and, more recently 25%, to no avail.
This morning, it started happening again, so I finally used the Airport Utility to turn off the Wireless Mode of the secondary device for my next test (thanks to the Ethernet connections, it's still visible on the wireless network). We'll see if this solves the wireless connectivity problem.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I wonder if it is some odd, configuration issue.

I just started having a similar problem in the last week. I have three devices: the Gigabit AEBS is connected to my cable modem and is the DHCP server. An Airport Express (N) extends the wireless network. A second (G-Only) Airport Express is connected to one of the gigabit ports on the AEBS and creates a second wireless network for iPhone, G-devices and guests.
Lately, the connection from my May 2009 MacBook Pro has started acting strange. The Airport icon in the menubar shows I have full signal strength, but I'm no longer connected to the Internet and I can't browse other N computers on the network. Devices that are connected via the G network continue working fine and remain connected to the Internet. This is interesting because even the G network has to go through the AEBS to get to the Internet. It only appears to affect the Internet connection via the AEBS's own WiFi but not its ethernet ports. If I open Airport Utility from the MacBook Pro, the AEBS status shows as Normal. Turning off/on the Airport on the MacBook accomplishes nothing but I can restart the AEBS from the Airport Utility and then everything goes back to normal. A few hours or more later, the problem occurs again.
By holding the Option key when clicking on the Airport icon and looking at the Airport MAC address I can tell that the MacBook Pro is connected to the WiFi-N via the Airport Express extender. Like you, I may have to try and shut that one off and see if the problems occurs when it is connected directly to the AEBS. The problem with that is that since it is farther away in the house, the signal strength and thus my transmit rate will be slower. I'd be curious to see if your experiment by shutting down your secondary AE will still cause drops.

Airport Extreme Base Station Losing Connection To USB Hard Drive.

I bought a new 5th gen AEBS and installed it yesterday updating the firmware to latest version and enabling the 300mbps 5GHz access point.
I formatted a 2.5" USB hard drive to Mac OS Journaled and connected it via USB.
Last night I transferred GBs of data with no problems. However I copied my iTunes media over night, and this morning it stated that it lost connection to the drive.
I since cannot connect to the drive again without disconnecting the USB drive and reconnecting it.
This seems to be a common problem with no evident fixes. Has anyone got a reliable connection out of this device?
I was using a MacBook Pro 2010 on SL.
If not then I suppose I might send this back and get a dedicated NAS.

I just found this thread - I am not sure the energy saver option will apply to non 'local' hard drives, i.e. the hard drive connected to the AEBS.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3616812

How can I extend a wireless network with my AirPort Extreme Base Station?

Today I purchased a brand new, dual-band base station to replace my Belkin N router, as I have had a handful of firewall, coverage, and other networking problems in my house lately. First off, I really like this router and it was very easy to setup. My MacBook Pro could use both bands and established a 300 Mbit/s link very quickly. After tweaking various settings to my liking, I was also able to maximize the connections on many of my non-Apple machines and devices. I noticed that the range of its network was better than my Belkin's, but unfortunately, it failed to completely saturate the area sufficiently. Since the Belkin still works well enough, I was hoping I could bridge them together one way or the other.
The Belkin router does not support any bridge mode that I know of, but the AirPort Extreme should be able to join a wireless network and then extend that over WiFi and Ethernet, correct? I would like to place them at opposite ends of my home so I can get strong WiFi signals everywhere inside. However, when I try to get the base station to connect to my preexisting WiFi connection, it tells me that I can't extend the network and fails to join.
So is this possible? And if it is, how would I go about setting it up? I know it would probably be easier if I had a simple range booster such as an AirPort Express, but I didn't buy one while I was at Fry's since I hoped I could make use of the older Belkin. This is its product page, if needed. Thanks for any suggestions.
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The Belkin router does not support any bridge mode that I know of, but the AirPort Extreme should be able to join a wireless network and then extend that over WiFi and Ethernet, correct?
Sorry, but no. The AirPort Extreme Base Station cannot "join" a network like the AirPort Express or Time Capsule, but you wouldn't want to do this anyway because in this configuration these devices will only perform as wireless clients ... not routers.
Instead, the AirPort Extreme can either be extended or can extend another 802.11g or 802.11n AirPort ... or a very very few non-AirPort devices.
One option for your Belkin would be to connect it to the AirPort Extreme by Ethernet but this may not meet your requirements or be a desirable situation. Otherwise, you would need to get another AirPort to extend your current one.

Extreme base station 802.11g Mystery

Been trying to wrap my head around this for the past week.
Girlfriend unplugged our perfectly working Airport express from wall outlet by mistake. She plugs it back in but no connection is detected by our two ibook G4s (both running leopard). After trying all three different resets and researching around on the internet I chalk it up to a faulty Airport Express. Head to my local mac store and purchase a lightly used Extreme base station. Set it up and it TOO is undetected by my laptop.
Stranger yet, I can see all my neighbors access points from my two ibooks but I cannot see the airport extreme. My ancient G3 clamshell was fired up and it CAN detect this extreme base station and connect to it no problems. Same goes for my iphone.
So this gets me to thinking. THis is a software conflict, no? I get the feeling I might have done a software update right before this whole fiasco but I'm not certain. I try downgrading firmware for base station but no joy.
Also, this might be a strange tangent but I live in Japan where the Airport express and extreme are rebranded to Airmac express and Airmac extreme. "So what", you say? It just so happens that my two ibooks (the computers that can't see the wifi network) are north american spec computers. My iPhone and G3 Clamashell are both japanese and can see/connect to the base station.
Does anyone know if wifi base stations in Japan have compatibility issues with non japanese computers? I mean, I understand the hardware should be the same, but perhaps software is different for the two?
If anyone has the slightest idea or some helpful advice please please please. I'm just about to do a clean install of leopard but something tells me that's not the culprit since BOTH of my computers are having this problem it must be some strange setting somewhere. BTW, both computers where networked together as to share files on this once working wifi connection.

Duane,
The drinks are on me if you ever find your way to Japan!
Changed the Base Station channel to 11 and it worked like a charm.
I didn't even think about this since the channel was set to automatic. I assumed (wrongly) that it would find the best suitable channel. But as you stated, US spec uses channels 1-11 while here in japan I had the option of channel 12 and 13. Thank you.
Btw, Nice clammy pic you got there.

Remote administration of Express in an Extreme Base Station network

I am a newb administrator of a small network of an AEBS with 2 Expresses in "extend a network" mode. I can access the Base Station over the internet but I haven't figured out how I can do the same with the Expresses.
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On this same topic;
We have a new Extreme base station that connects 1 MBP, (wirelessly), 1 HP Laptop (wirelessly) and 2 PC (via ethernet) to the internet.
All of the computers can see and use the Extreme base station and the printer connected to it via USB.
We also have an Airport Express that the two laptops can see. This has a printer connected to it as well via USB. (both are new Canon printers and all of the software for each, and their drivers are loaded on all computers).
Both the Extreme and Express have a steady green light, their own names and are set up on the same network.
Though my MBP can see both the Extreme and Express, neither "see" each other as far as I can tell. And, the printer connected to the Express cannot be seen in either Bonjour Printers, or anywhere else.
Also, in order to "attempt" to find the printer connected to the Express, I have to disconnect from the Extreme Base Station and connect to the Express.
How can I get the printer (connected to the Express) to show up in my pick list of printers WITHOUT having to disconnect from the Extreme and connect to the Express. Also, how can we get the Express to be connected to the internet via the Extreme?
All searches here and documents I have poured though do not address this issue and we'd really like to get this straightened out. I am willing to take a lot of time to do this, but do it right.
Can someone please help me with this?
Thank you in advance,
~ J

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