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Airport Express (Wireless N)-God Give Me Strength.

Gee said:
And the audio cable is in?
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It isn't, as I've plugged it in in my office to do these tests (as opposed to the living room).

Although I could easily plug it in and do all of this with it plugged in in the living room as there's good wireless coverage in there.

I've now plugged the optical cable in if that helps?

I feel another factory reset coming on...
 
Azzin said:
It isn't, as I've plugged it in in my office to do these tests (as opposed to the living room).

Although I could easily plug it in and do all of this with it plugged in in the living room as there's good wireless coverage in there.

I've now plugged the optical cable in if that helps?

I feel another factory reset coming on...
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It'll only show up as a remote speaker if there's an audio cable in. Clever like that.

It should have joined your existing network, so it should appear in utility when you're connected to your network. Try just restarting the AE and your router, at the same time.
 
Gee said:
It'll only show up as a remote speaker if there's an audio cable in. Clever like that.
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The weird thing is that I've had it show up (wirelessly from laptop and via iPhone and iPad) and there's never been a cable in it. :confused:
 
Azzin said:
The weird thing is that I've had it show up (wirelessly from laptop and via iPhone and iPad) and there's never been a cable in it. :confused:
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Oh ok, then ignore me, it's not clever like that.

Ok, so how about factory reset and try option 3. That can't fail.
 
Azzin said:
I did what it said in that link (connect laptop to AE by ethernet) and I'm now enableing Airtunes (with a password).... :eek:

It's showing a (wireless) I.P of 192.168.1.81 and the Airplay icon is now present on my (wireless) laptop.
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Ah good. So, progressed to where you were yesterday :)

Million dollar question: what about the wired pc?
 
Gee said:
What's the IP address of the wired pc? Is it on the same subnet?
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Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a483:f01c:adae:2a80%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.71
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
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Gee said:
What model of router do you have?
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It's an O2 Wireless IV (Wireless N) router.
 
Absolutely, no drive mapping, drive sharing or network problems here at all.

I have drives mapped to servers in the garage and also have a drive on this PC mapped as a drive on one of the servers (to copy data to/from).
 
Hmmm....

Trying option 3, it showed a default subnet of 255.255.0.0 adn an IP of 169.254.1.156. :eek:

I've changed subnet manually to 255.255.255.0 and saved that and the AE is restarting now....
 
But I can't seem to find a section to manually get rid of that 169 IP address and it's also telling me that "the router address I entered is not compatible with my WAN address"

Which would presumably be because my router is 192.168.1.254 and the I.P of the AE is currently 169...
 
Azzin said:
But I can't seem to find a section to manually get rid of that 169 IP address and it's also telling me that "the router address I entered is not compatible with my WAN address"

Which would presumably be because my router is 192.168.1.254 and the I.P of the AE is currently 169...
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I found the section to manually specify an IP and I've entered 192.168.1.99 and it's saving/restarting now...
 
Azzin said:
I found the section to manually specify an IP and I've entered 192.168.1.99 and it's saving/restarting now...
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That didn't work-no entry showing in my router for it, so I've set it back to DHCP.

I set it to Manual to be able to overide the 169 address, so I've set it back to DHCP and it seems to keep the .99 IP.

Saving/restarting now...
 
Azzin said:
But I can't seem to find a section to manually get rid of that 169 IP address and it's also telling me that "the router address I entered is not compatible with my WAN address"

Which would presumably be because my router is 192.168.1.254 and the I.P of the AE is currently 169...
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I would have thought that if you're asking it to join your current network via Ethernet, it should be getting it's ip address from the router, right? Do you have the Ethernet cable connected to the router or the laptop? If laptop, this might explain the error - AE is given ip by laptop, which is acting as dhcp thingy. I'm not sure whether, if you set it up like this, then plug it into the router, it will then get the right ip and details from the router. Or whether best to try setting up via router to begin with
 
Gee said:
I would have thought that if you're asking it to join your current network via Ethernet, it should be getting it's ip address from the router, right? Do you have the Ethernet cable connected to the router or the laptop? If laptop, this might explain the error - AE is given ip by laptop, which is acting as dhcp thingy. I'm not sure whether, if you set it up like this, then plug it into the router, it will then get the right ip and details from the router. Or whether best to try setting up via router to begin with
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Yes, I still had the laptop connected to the AE via ethernet. :eek:

I have now plugged a LAN ethernet lead into the AE and I'm trying a DHCP Lease Renew in the Airport Utility.
 
So now it's not visible from the Airport Utility, but it is ping-able!

Pinging 192.168.1.99 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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However now, there's no Airplay icon on my (wireless) laptop's iTunes, or my wired desktop's iTunes. :mad:

I give up.
 
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