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30-11-2009, 11:09
Hi,
I've just bought an Airport Express and have had a few little problems setting it up. After getting no signal being plugged into the 4 way under my hifi rack, I relocated it to behind and to the side and Bingo, it worked!
Then, the next day, there was no signal. I'm limited as to how far I can move it cos of the length of my interconnects, but no matter which way I turned it, it just refused to connect again.
I've got a Monitor Audio i-deck downstairs and was intrigued as to whether I could use the AE with that, so while it wasn't connecting upstairs I moved it downstairs. I wasn't expecting it to work. For one, it's further away from the Mac and it's between the side of a bookcase and a wall. Anyway, it booted up and connected! Brilliant.
I took it back upstairs and tried it there again. No luck. I wondered if there were some other networks around interfering with it. My router is on channel 6. I believe the AE is on channel 1, so that shouldn't be a problem. iStumbler tells me there are 2 networks close by using channel 1 and 6. I changed my router to channel 11 and the AE connected straight away! :scratch:
I don't know what to conclude from this, and it's working now, but I have a couple of questions:
Is it possible to change the channel on the AE? Edit: I've just noticed that the AE is on the same channel as the router, 11, which probably answers question 2.
Does the AE connect to the Airport card in the mac, or to the router?
I set it up to join my existing network. What is the idea/point of creating a new network?
I've just bought an Airport Express and have had a few little problems setting it up. After getting no signal being plugged into the 4 way under my hifi rack, I relocated it to behind and to the side and Bingo, it worked!
Then, the next day, there was no signal. I'm limited as to how far I can move it cos of the length of my interconnects, but no matter which way I turned it, it just refused to connect again.
I've got a Monitor Audio i-deck downstairs and was intrigued as to whether I could use the AE with that, so while it wasn't connecting upstairs I moved it downstairs. I wasn't expecting it to work. For one, it's further away from the Mac and it's between the side of a bookcase and a wall. Anyway, it booted up and connected! Brilliant.
I took it back upstairs and tried it there again. No luck. I wondered if there were some other networks around interfering with it. My router is on channel 6. I believe the AE is on channel 1, so that shouldn't be a problem. iStumbler tells me there are 2 networks close by using channel 1 and 6. I changed my router to channel 11 and the AE connected straight away! :scratch:
I don't know what to conclude from this, and it's working now, but I have a couple of questions:
Is it possible to change the channel on the AE? Edit: I've just noticed that the AE is on the same channel as the router, 11, which probably answers question 2.
Does the AE connect to the Airport card in the mac, or to the router?
I set it up to join my existing network. What is the idea/point of creating a new network?