Windows XP can't see my Airport Extreme

Was given an airport extreme to replace my old d-link wireless router, which stereotypically died.
I have a D-Link Airplus G+ wireless card, and cannot fathom how to make my computer see the airport.
Airport is plugged into broadband, it's green light is glowing happily. Airport utility comes up blank. Do I need to adjust the settings for my wireless card, which also scans and finds no networks?

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http://tech.ifelix.net/1004.html
Printing from a Windows XP PC to a printer attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station or Airport Express using Bonjour
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I replaced my old airport extreme with the latest one, but now my PS3, which is on another floor, cannot see the base station, and the new base station has a lot less range than the old one. With my old one I could sit out in the back yard with my laptop, and the PS3 picked it up right away over our wireless network, but now, nothing. My laptop connects okay, just can't go very far. Nothing has changed except the base station itself. Please help.

Hello Uri. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
A few things I would suggest that you try to see if either or both help with the PS3's connectivity to the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn):
o If currently enabled, disable the Guest Network.
o Use a separate Network Name for the 5 GHz radio. Make sure that the PS3 connects to the 2.4 GHz radio's wireless network.

Can't see my Airport Extreme base station

I wanted to upgrade my Base station's security to WPA2. So I went to the Airport Admin utility - But the base station does not appear there. My base station is set to be a close hidden network so I suppose that was the reason why it didn't appear.
So I decided to reset the base station. After pressing the reset button for 10sec
I went back to my PB and noticed that my wireless network name was changed to Apple Network ###### (which indicate that the Base station reset) BUT I still can't see my base station in my Airport Admin Utility.
1. Is there another way to reset the base station? did I do it right ?
2. Is there a way to see my hidden base station in the Airport Admin Utility ?
I know that I can log to a specific address (+password) but which one
should I use ?
Thanks
Eric

If you press and release the reset button on the base station, it will restart. If you unplug the power, then plug it back in, it will reboot. Holding the reset button like you did will cause the base station to revert to factory specs, meaning that you lost all of your customizations. So you have to re-configure the base station now.
If your PowerBook was connected to your network, you should see the base station in the Admin utility. Did you check to make sure you were connected to the network before you went into the Airport Admin Utility?
Doc

Ibook G-3 with old airport card can't see New Airport Extreme Base Station

I have been trying for a week now to get my G-3 ibook set up on my Airport Extreme Network. No matter what I do, I can't sign on to the network. When I put in the password I get an error message 3151. I have no idea what this means. I have read everything, restarted base, changed network password, trashed all airport and prefs on G-3 and reinstalled. Although my network shows up in the control strip, it doesn't show in the setup assistant. Please help if you can, I'm about to go crazy! Thanks.
Power Mac G5 and ibook G3 Clamshell Mac OS X (10.4.9) ibook is running 9.2.2
Power Mac G5 and ibook G3 Clamshell Mac OS X (10.4.9) ibook is running 9.2.2
Power Mac G5 and ibook G3 Clamshell Mac OS X (10.4.9) ibook is running 9.2.2

Dear Duane, I did have 802.11b configured, but I had the WPA instead of WEP enabled. When I reconfigured my network, the clamshell was instantly able to join and use the network. I have many many questions about how to use the network to allow both computers to communicate, but I'll read up on it and I'm sure the answers will be there. You saved me $240.00 for the 1st hour and $160.00 for anything over that Techserve was going to charge me to come and set it up. I can't thank you enough. Everyone tells me not to waste money, but to save for a new ibook with System X, but I love my old clamshell and I'm going to get it a bigger hard drive so it can be upgraded to run OS X. It's the old 4 Gb one. I can't thank you enough for your solution! Now I can work on the laptop in my bedroom! I love Mac stuff and I knew the Extreme base station would work, regardless of what all the posters have been saying.
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Airport Utility can't see the airport, nor are shares visible (Why is there no very extensive 'cookbook' on troubleshooting Airport Extremes?)

For quite a while my MBP (10.5.8) cannot see the Airport Extreme 802.11n (AE) (2nd ed) anymore when I start Airport Utility (AU) (v5.5.3). My solution was to lower security settings of the MBP to 'accept all incoming connections', knowing that this was not a nice solution. Normally I had selected 'acces for specific services and programs' (the lowest option - my AE differs in language). In the past I denied access for requests that regularly came from mDNSresponder (etc), as I could not easily find out how necessary they were. I am not sure whether Bonjour is running; I try to stick to TCP/IP (without Netbios); the same might be the case with other obscure network services...
Then I added another network drive (WD Mybooklive) that works based on shares. The installation program worked fine, I was able to set up the drive for Timemachine backups and -in the proces of upgrading to Snow leopard (I always stay one OS version behind)- my MP3 collection could be read from another drive that was connected to the AE.
I am not sure what exactly lead to the loss, but now I can not see the shares anymore in the finder. Unless I select 'connect to server' (Cmd-K) and fill in afp://ip-adres. I had some trouble with the MBP-drive and Disk Utily could not fix it in multi-user mode. Applejack-auto in single user mode finished after some repairs (catalog file and catalog hierarchy errors), but I doubt that causes the trouble.
In all cases, internetting and accessing the connected drive was no problem.
The funny thing is, my Mac Mini (10.5.8) however can see the AE with Airport Utility (different version) fine. Somehow I get the idea that the networkstack of my MBP has been messed up, but I don't know what it should be, nor how I could check it, or how to repair the stack. But maybe it is not the stack at all.
Right now, I've just reset the AE by holding the reset button for about 10 s. The name has returned to 'Base Station xx', which is visible in AU, but when I click on another button ('manual configuration' or 'continue'), first the message "Are you sure you want to connect to another wireless network?". Finally no connection appears and the error 'AU cannot find your Airport' shows up (while the Base Station is visible in the left column) - or does not show up when I refuse to switch to another network.
So, who can help me to reconnect to the Airport Extreme and/or repair the network stack?

WDS is a difficult setup for many users because it is so easy to make a mistake (while swearing that you are not).
Apple's instructions for WDS are here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4262
I still think the instructions provided by Tesserax are the best available:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2422028&tstart=0
I can't add any more to this other than to say that long ago when I used WDS, I would swear that I had all the MAC addresses entered correctly, etc and would still have problems. So, I ask my wife to watch me and she immediately catches something like I entered a "l" (letter L) instead of a number "1", or a "O" (letter O) instead of a "0" (number zero).
Finally, there's always the possibility of device that is not holding settings...a defective device.
Hopefully, Tesserax will have some additional thoughts.

I can see my airport extreme network, but none of my devices (vista, ipad, iphone, ipod) can connect to it. Why?

I have set up my apple aiport extreme after moving and I can see the airport extreme light is green and I can see the airport extreme network name, but when I select the network, the device cannot connect to it. No error message appears, the device simply is in a constant state of trying to connect to the network.
I can easily connect to the non Airport Extreme network.
Can anyone help?

Try factory resetting, it often helps when changing location.

Can not see my Airport in the list of Wifi networks and is blinking organge all the time

Can not see my airport on the list of WiFi networks and is blinking orange all the time. Tried to reset several times.

Do you have a Mac or idevice for setting up the Express? It does require a later utility than is available for windows.
You might be able to setup with the v5 utility in windows but there is no guarantee.
You should use a simple name both for the base and the wireless. eg AEXgen2 base name and AEXwifi for wireless name.. that is if you get access.

Updated my iTunes and now my mac can not see my airport express no matter what I have tried

recently updated my itunes and the firmware on my airport extreme and suddenly itunes does not recognize my airport express for speakers and my mac through airport utilities can not see my airport express. *** I have tried everything and nothing will bring the airport express back to life what to do

rosenkd wrote:
*** I have tried everything
... including a "hard reset" or a "factory defaults reset"?

Airport utility 6.3.4 can not find my airport extreme 802.11ac

Sometimes the program loses contact with Airport Extreme 802.11ac with firmware 7.7.3 The internet is OK and the internettlight is green but the software seems not to find my Airport Extreme 802.11ac. The curios thing is that the airport utility app on my Iphone will find the Airport Extreme and from here I can restart it - which (obvious) solves the problem - for some time
Probably a known problem!

The problem is with Yosemite. We have seen many posts from users with "disappearing" AirPorts, but unfortunately there does not appear to be a reliable solution at this time.
Some users have reported that turning off the Firewall on their Macs has helped with this issue. Not sure if you want to try this, and we are not really recommending that you do this, but it might be worth a try if it is important for you to be able to "see" the AirPort Extreme in AirPort Utility from your Mac.
Another check that you can perform that might help is to see if your Mac has been bitten by the Yosemite "naming" bug. To do this, open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock) and then open Sharing. Check to make sure that the name of your Mac is displayed correctly. If you see a (2), (3), (4) etc added to the name of the Mac, edit the name to correct it and restart your Mac.
You may need to check this daily as when you have the bug, the "naming" will likely continue until we get a fix.

Windows PC can't connect to AirPort Express

I am trying to connect my Windows PC (running XP) to my Airport Express. My Powerbook G4 connects to the Airport wihtout problems, and the Windows PC connects to other wireless networks outside of my house just fine. However, this Windows PC will not "see" my Airport wireless network at all. It does not seem to pick up the Airport signal at all - says there are no wireless networks found in range. What do I need to do? I disabled my wireless security completely, that still didn't work. Help !

Hi-
You say you get "full wireless connection", but no internet, and "wireless network doesn't show up in Airport Utility" ... ??
1) You need to get connected to the SSID. (see above notes)
2) DHCP can be enabled, but if you're not getting to the wireless (no SSID yet, right?) you won't get a useable IP (you getting 169.245.xx.xx?? right?)
3) 10.1.0.1 (or 10.0.1.1) is your express/router/gateway...terminology varies slightly. You cannot assign that IP to the PC. No duplicates allowed on network.
4)Not sure what number you SAW in 'ipconfig', so I can't tell you to use that. Gut feeling is no...
Subw00er gave a good link to help you.
Get your wireless configuration set properly, using the utility (either the airport utility, or Windows or the one that came with your Netgear card.) My guess is that eithr Windows or netgear will be your first tool.
See the first four messages in this topic. Your situation is no different. Get he utility (windowsWireless or Netgear) working to manually create a network and enter your SSID, and things will progress much faster.

Airport Utility 5.6.1 doesn't see my Airport Extreme

I'm good with the Ethernet connection for the internet, but Airport doesn't see my Airport Extreme. It's connected to my IMac 10.6.8. Have tried a reset with ballpoint pen, but nothing happens. This all went crashing down the other evening with I suddenly had lost Internet on my MacBook Pro. This ***** so bad. Would it do me any good to call Apple support?

OS X 10.6.8 is Snow Leopard for which you need AirPort Utility 5.6.1.
There are no special techniques to download it. Just click on the link, then click the blue Download button, which will download and eventually deposit AirPort Utility 5.6.1 in your Downloads folder.
It looks like this:
Double-click it to extract the package installer. It looks like this:
Double-click that to open the installer:
Click Continue and follow the prompts, which will either install it in your Utilities folder or tell you a reason it cannot.
After you perform the "hard reset" and the Extreme's LED is blinking slowly, go to your Wi-Fi menu and see if you find a network called "Apple Network nnnnnn". Select it, then launch AirPort Utility.
The reason that everything is greyed out is that AirPort Utility cannot find any base stations to configure. If after doing all the above it still cannot, perform another "hard reset". If that does not work, perform a "factory defaults reset" as I explained above.
What happened at the Apple Store? Other than having a nice ballpoint pen with an Apple logo on it, they are not going to do anything more than you can do.
If you did not bring it there yet, bring your MacBook Pro along with you so that you can see for yourself how it ought to work.

Airport utility v6 doesn't see old airport extreme 1st ten

Using new version 6 Airport Utility, does not see older Airport Extreme (1st gen) that is on my network. It sees my newer AP extreme and shows the ID for old machine yet I can't get to it to change configuration.

You will need to download and install AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion to be able to access and make changes to any of the older AirPort products. AirPort Utility 6.0 only works with newer "n" devices.
You can use the more functional AirPort Utility 5.6 to configure all of your AirPorts...old or new.
Just keep both versions on your Mac and use the one that you want.

Can't connet to airport Extreme

Hello, I bought a new airport extreme(2009) in order to partialy replace my sagen f@sr modem and router. I intend to turn off the wireless feature from the sagem router and use it only as modem. My problem is that I can see the airport extreme through the airport utility but when I try to connect to it it says "An error occured while trying to access the Apple wireless device. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again *error -6753*". how can I solve this problem???
thanks in advance

I get this message occasionally....but keep trying, it eventually connects. Are you connecting via ethernet cable? If not, try doing so for the initial setup.

I am unable to see my Airport Extreme/Express on my MacBook via Airport Utility

I have two issues:
1. I am unable to see my Airport Extreme and my Airport Express via my MacBook Air's Airport Utility when I scan for Base Stations. However, the computer is happily connected to the wireless network of my Extreme (the Express is used to extend range)
2. I am unable to see a HDD that is connected via USB cable to the Airport Extreme.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks

Further info:
Setup
MacBook Air running OS X 10.5.8
AirPort Extreme Base Station
AirPort Express used to extend range
AirPort Utility v5.5.3
The MacBook Air is actually connected to the wireless network provided by the two AirPorts!
Oddly, I see both AirPorts just fine when using my older PowerBook G4 with an older version of the AirPort Utility.
In addition, I cannot see the external HDD connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and my wireless printer (HP D410a) suddenly stopped working via the MacBook Air. However, it works just fine from my iPhone, which is connected to the same AirPort Extreme/Express wireless network.
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Silly question, maybe. I want to change from Verizon DSL to cable, but cable company doesn't supply router. can I use my Airport Extreme as wireless router?

We currently have the following wireless home-network configuration, powered by Verizon DSL.
2 macbook pro’s
1 emachine
HP PhotoSmart 6122 all-in-one printer
Apple TV
Apple Airport Extreme Base Port A 1408
Westell 7500 router
Thinking I’d get wider wireless coverage throughout my 2 bedroom home, I purchased the Airport Extreme. It is connected to the router via its sole usb port. The result was only a tiny increase in speed, and no increase in coverage, so I don’t know why I have it.
We now want to change from DSL to cable, thus ditching Verizon. Our new cable provider supplies the cable box, but no router for wireless networking.
Here are my questions.
Can I use the Airport Extreme (AE) as a wireless router?
If so, how should I hook it up? Should the usb cable go from the AE to the cable box, and all the other devices connect wirelessly?
If not, how should I be using the AE to some advantage? What can I get out of the investment?
Thank you very much for your help! Beatriz

What I wrote has nothing to do with what the cable company charges for their installation. And, usually they will help with the router setup even if you supply your own router. I don't know what they will charge for the modem.
Note that you need to get just a modem. You don't want a modem/router combination. That will make using an AEBS effectively nearly impossible. You will need to ask specifically for just a standalone modem, and that you will supply your own router.

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