Wireless Modem v's Airport Express

HELP..I connect to my service provider via a wireless modem located away from the G5 (that works). .Now have two Airport Express for streaming to different parts of the house (they work). BUT:
1. I cant use wirless modem and Airport Express toghther (have to move from one to the other)
2. Cant use both Airport Express's together at the same time (BTW one is green the other blinks amber)
Would like to be able to use everything together at the same time..ideas/help very much appreciated
charlie

thanks for the help..did all you suggested but when i
got as far as choose airport base station nothing was
displayed...
Well, as long as the booting sequence has finished (amber light is flashing slowly) the AE should be visible. You need to make sure that when you push the reset button the amber light is flashing rapidly, otherwise the AE will keep the old settings and will not be recognised by the Setup Assistant as new.
Let's try to do an illustrated guide.
1. Reset both AEs and unplug them.
2. Plug the first one in.
3. Launch Airport Setup Assistant.
4. Select "Setup new station"
5. The assistant should be able to see a new AE station:
and then you can click continue. If it does not see the station, unplug it and plug close to your G5 to guarantee you have a strong signal, and relaunch Airport Setup Assistant. You will be able to unplug it later and move to where you want it, and it will keep all the settings.
6. Hopefully now you were able to get to step 5 and click "continue". At the next step you will need to select to connect to existing network:
7. At the next step you will tell it to connect to the network as a client, rather than extend it through WDS. WDS is a whole new problem, so we'll pass it for now:
8. Next you should be presented with the menu containing the name of the network that you wireless modem has created. Select it and enter the password. Also give a unique name to your AE station.
9. The setup is finished with assigning a password for the AE. This has nothing to do with the wireless network, it's just to protect the settings you just entered.
10. The AE should reboot with the new settings now. This time as it will first glow steady amber, then will do a few amber flashes as it looks for the modem's network, and will finally change to steady green when it gets connected to the modem.
Now you can unplug it and move to where you want it. Repeat steps 2-10 for the second AE.
Hope this helps, especially plugging the AE close to the computer for the setup. One ting to keep in mind, is that the AE will connect to the modem now, rather than your G5, so the modem's signal strength should be sufficient where the AEs are.

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I have a new Apple Express updated to the latest version of the firmware 7.1.6. The AE is part of my wireless home network which is built with a Cisco WAG120N router running the latest firmware 1.0.0.16.
On this network I have 2 Samsung plasma TV's, 2 Samsung Blu Ray players, 2 Asus W7 laptops, 1 HP Colour Laser Printer, 2 iPhone's 4 and 1 iPad III. Everything only wireless connected and all works fine, no problems, good performance very stable, I can watch HBO GO via Internet directly on the big Samsung’s without any issue.
I purchased the AE to play my iTunes music on my home hifi system without cables and changes albums without leaving the couch.
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The AE utility running under W7 only occasionally locates the AE, god thanks it did the first time so I could install it. To connect to the AE I have to type in the IP address in configure other in the utility. Then I change nothing and just do an update whereby the AE is reset I believe.
After that my AE works for about half an hour then it stops. In iTunes it most of the time shows error 15006, sometimes it just stops. After connecting again with the utility via the IP address and doing a dummy update with works again at least most of the time for another half hour. All this time I am able to see the AE in my Cisco network tool (Magic) as up and running and is the light on AE green.
I changed all settings one by one in my Cisco router to the way it is described in Apples troubleshooting documents. I even took it out of the DHCP scope of my router and gave it it's own fixed IP address. I have not took it out of my wireless network as that would kill my ability to play my music via iMatch and iCloud anymore.
I have this problem with both W7 PC's and the iPad. I have not tried the iPhones.
I don't know what to do anymore and am very disappointed about the Apples support on this subject. Is this their way of forcing customer to go buy a Time Capsule!
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