Wireless network via TC OK, but no internet connex - it's a router, right?

I'm close to going postal here & need to know if anyone else is having this problem. I'm able to set up a wireless network between my wireless devices (TC, iMac, Airport Express for iTunes to stereo), but cannot get an internet connection. With TC glowing green & my iMac showing connection to the network I just set up, I open Safari (tried other browsers to same effect), it doesn't connect, I use network diagnostics & I get green lights all the way down through ISP, but it goes red after that. When I undo everything & go back to my D-Link router, I'm fine & TC works as a wireless HD. I just can't seem to get it set up as a wireless router.

After a very long wait to speak to Apple's customer support team on the phone, I recieved excellent assistance in solving my problem. The issue was a backup power source in my VoIP modem which made it tricky to truly reset the modem to take a new IP address with my cable ISP. There is a backup battery compartment, but when I'm looking for a familiar Duracell or Eveready C, D, A, etc. battery, the lithium ion carteridge battery looks like it's part of the hardware, i.e. not removeable, when in fact it is.
Hope this helps anyone who was at their wits end like me.

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Karen wrote:
(because I wanted it to have the same static IP address as the router).
Just wanted to clarify what you meant in this post. If you entered the router's IP address as the static IP for the laptop, you would get the symptoms that you are describing. Try entering a IP that isn't normally used like 192.168.1.142. (That is assuming that your router IP is the default 192.168.1.1.)
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Royce

HT2497 I just purchased the 2TB TC and set it up on bridge mode to my att verse which is connected via ethernet cable. The TC is continually blinking amber and an error message states that a wireless network cannot be found but the uverse is functioning

I just purchased the 2TB TC and set it up on bridge mode to my att verse which is connected via ethernet cable. The TC is continually blinking amber and an error message states that a wireless network cannot be found but the uverse is functioning great. The network name I assigned to the TC is also not appearing among available networks. How do I remedy this, please?

What OS on the computer you are using to setup the TC?
Did you turn on ipv6 for wireless to link-local... this is essential for network access now??
Try power cycling the network.. start up in correct order.. uverse.. 2min wait.. TC.. 2min wait.. computer.
No luck factory reset and start over. Use ethernet cable as well to the computer to help it.
No luck I can show you manual method.

HT5022 I'm trying to add a "new client" to my wireless network using Airport Utility, but I can't find that option in the new version. I've downloaded all available updates of the OS and the utility.. Help!

I'm trying to add my HP wireless printer as a "new client" to my wireless network using Airport Utility, but I can't find that option in the new version. I've downloaded all available updates of the OS and the utility.. Help!

Why would you need to ADD a new Client. Unless the APE sytem is completely different then any other Wireless router the printer should get an IP address from the router. That is IF the printer is setup to get an IP from the LAN DHCP server.
Now you may want to make that IP it does get a Staticly assign IP address so it never changes, which will screw up printing if it does change. But i don't know if you can do that with APE routers.

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Other ways to add a known wireless network to a bunch of clients?
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Hello again,
I've tried something else.
1. Adding the network to our image master (via System Preferences)
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/Library/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
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/Library/Keychains/System.keychain
from our master to every client which shall be able to use the new network.
That seems to work because the network is shown up in System Preferences -> Network -> Options -> Airport -> Preferred networks.
Unfortunately this solution has unpleasant side effects. For example the computer name is changed back to the computer name of the master, because the computer name is stored in the preferences.plist file, too.
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Best wishes

Network mode: Create a wireless network vs. Extend wireless network via ethernet

Can some one tell me the difference between configuring AirPort Utility : Network mode: Create a wireless network vs. Extend wireless network via ethernet? I connect my cable modem to my Airport Time Capsule to a network switch via ethernet. The switch contacts to three Airport Express (AE connects to two Apple TVs via Ethernet) and another TC. Which is the best mode to configure my network?
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Create a wireless network is used only when the Airports have an Ethernet connection. If you are using the setup wizard.....the setting will read Extend using Ethernet during the setup. If you go back in using AirPort Utility to check the Network Mode setting.....you will see that it is really Create a wireless network.
Extend a wireless network is used only if an AirPort is connecting to another AirPort using wireless.......not Ethernet.
Every one of the Airports on your network must be configured to Create a wireless network.
If you do connect an Ethernet cable to an AirPort that is already set up to Extend a wireless network......that will create a massive feedback loop that will crash the network until you remove the Ethernet connection to the device.
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Have a 802.11n time capsule, the range of the wireless network has shrunk down to nothing over last few days. Used to be able to use wireless network anywhere in house, but now can only use in my office. Will not connect to iphones, ipad, itouch, or notebook. Worked fine last week, but over weekend just started having issues.

It is very possible that you may have some form of Wi-Fi interference that has appeared recently that is preventing your Time Capsule (TC) from providing a clean RF signal.
I suggest you perform a simple site survey, using utilities like iStumbler, or AirRadar to determine potential areas of interference, and then, try to either eliminate or significantly reduce them where possible. Look for other Wi-Fis that may be operating nearby. Note those with the strongest signals and which channels they are operating on ... then change the channel used by the TC to be at least 3-5 channels away.

Hi, I am trying to print to an HP4050n via a secure wireless network. It prints but the default page setting sent to the printer is JIS B5. I have to hit the "Go" to get the printer to print. I have the correct setting in my Printer Settings (Letter).

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The paper size would normally be coming from the application rather than some setting in the driver. I've never seen the Generic PCL driver send a request for B5, but then I do use A4 rather than Letter and I don't have a PCL printer at home to check this. But I do think it has more to do with the application/document being printed.
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Airport Express wil not extend wireless network via ethernet

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Hello
I have a problem with setting up my network in my new place, where internet was already available via existing Ethernet network. I tired to solve the problem with the Designing Networks with Airport but I think my case is not described there. First of all let me describe how the Ethernet works. Network is setup by a Modem/router device that was supplied from the ISP, it is connected to the switch that divides the service over 4 different apartments, since it is a quite good connection there is no bandwidth problem, but the ISP device assigns only 5 IP addresses that can get internet service, everything above 5th IP is just an IP without Internet. From my basic knowledge I think that i need at least 4 IP to cover my needs. Time Capsule, Mac book, iTouch and my xbox. IF i set up my TC into a bridge mode it all works, but i am taking to much internet IP's and my neighbors are stuck with the IP's that don't allow them to connect to internet. What I need to know is a detailed instruction how to use one IP address from the 5 available, and using time capsule provide local IP to all of my devices at home so the rest of IPs generated by the ISP device will not be assigned to me.
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Might be worth confirming that you really do have the additional NAT layer on your network.
Open Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > Network Utility
Click on the Traceroute tab
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HT4528 Is there a way to interface a Iphone 5 with a non wireless network via a RJ45 connector?

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I can see both devices via our ethernet wiring (I turn off wifi on my laptop and plug into the network). The Airport Express is connected to directly to one of the Airport Extreme ethernet ports (and not the WAN port). I then setup the Airport Extreme first and test it - that works fine. Then I move over to the Airport Express and set it up to extend the wireless network. This seems to work fine too. But when I move the Express to its final location and hook it up to our wired network, it fails to broadcast.
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Hello, I'm helping my sister & brother in law get a wireless network running and was wondering if anyone can share some advice about extending the wireless from an Airport Extreme with an Airport Express. They have no networking experience at all and I have a little so got roped into this.
The house they live in is an unsual design (husband an architect) with a feature mid way through the house which kills the wireless signal stone dead so only one half of the house gets wireless.
* The Cisco cable modem is a 4 port router with wireless (disabled) and an active DHCP server.
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The above setup works great for any wireless devices, although I am a little unsure if that is the proper way to go about it, I'm not used to Apple gear but bought it for the purpose of extending the network and keeping things simple.
The house was wired for ethernet but things didn't work out so well as the cable modem is a temperamental beast and the one place it would give a reliable link was a place with no ethernet ports nearby.
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My advice would be to only use the Cisco device as a cable modem and disable all of it's router features. You can then configure the AirPort Extreme to create a wireless network. The built in Wizard will guide you thru this easily.
So you should take it (AirPort Extreme) out of Bridge mode, And use it to set up and administer your network.
After you've done this, check that both the wired and wireless connections are working properly before trying to extend the network.
Once you're able to connect successfully to the AirPort-created network, then you can extend it (if it's still necessary) using the AirPort Express.
This is very easy to do.
In the Airport Extreme be sure to check the box "Allow this network to be extended" in the Wireless tab.
then you'll need to configure the AirPort Express by connecting to it. (This is most easily done by temporarily connecting to it's ethernet jack with an ethernet cable and running the AirPort utility.
Once it finds the Express, Go to the Wireless tab and select "Extend a wireless network" as the Wireless Mode.
You'll then be presented with a list of Wireless network names. select the name for the network you created with the AirPort Extreme, including any security mode and password you set up.
Click on update to send the configuration to the airport express.
The LED will blink yellow a few times, and if it then turns solid GREEN you're all set.
You can disconnect it from the computer and un plug it.
Then select a location for the Express about half-way between the furthest spot you need wireless access and the Airport Extreme . Plug it into the nearest outlet and the LED should flash yellow and then turn solid green.
When it does, you're all set and should see better wireless access through the rest of the house.
Let me know how you make out.

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I am having difficulties trying to connect my portable via PPPoE to an Access Point I just setup. I have assigned myself a username and password and address(192.168.1.x) on the wireless router and I manage to see the network with my mac but can't establish a connection. With a windows portable I can set up the connection and have checked that the network works fine.
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Dato PPPoE:
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I have *Good News* and *Bad News*, but it is forward progress.
I have 2 WiFi networks in my house. An 802.11g and an 802.11n with different SSID names.
I created 3 locations
a) Offline - disabled all network interfaces
b) experiment11g - configured with ONLY the 802.11g SSID as the preferred network, with the Remember any network this computer has joined DISABLED (none of the related check boxes are checked).
c) experiment11n - configured with ONLY the 802.11g SSID as teh preferred network, and all the other settings as the 11g location.
I switch to the Offline, then switch to experiment11g. And here is where the *Bad News* comes in. The Offline location turns off the Airport card. Switching to experiment11g does NOT turn Airport back on. I have to do that manually. And now the *Good News*, when I do turn Airport back on, via the menu bar, it has switched to the 802.11g WiFi network.
If I switch to Offline, then to experiment11n. Again when I turn the Airport back on, I have switched to the 802.11n WiFi network.
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The next step is to figure out how to turn the Airport back on as part of a script. Maybe something in Automator?
I am not very good at AppleScript, so maybe this is a question for the AppleScript forum?

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