Airport Express issues

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stain.

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It's obvious I'm not a mac guy but my wife has a Mac.
I have an Airport express, and the macbook pro can 'see' the airport. It connects to it, BUT will not get on the internet. The signal is excelent. and my PC is connecting fine wired.

I did the setup wizard when we got it, and it's working great untill a few days ago. I didn't do anything to it and it stopped working. I would greatly appreciate it if I can get some help on setting up the Airport correctly so that wifi can connect to the internet. if I did something while forwarding some ports, I have no clue.

Also, let me know if you need pix of the different screens.

The only things on the router is 1 PC wired, and 1 Mac wireless.
 
how is the internet connected to the express?

(probably a silly question, but thought I'd ask anyhow)
 
Comcast cable modem -> Ethernet cable -> Airport

On my mac it says "Airport is connected to the local network but because it has a manually assigned IP address it might not connected to the internet"

I have DHCP set to auto. I'm confused.
 
If the airport express dropped out or your wife dropped signal for a bit it could be confused. Unplug power from Airport express and cable modem (Make sure all computers connected are powered off). Plug cable modem in and let it detect and sync to the isp. Once all the lights go steady or it drops down to standby plug the airport express in and let it sync to the modem. Once it syncs you should be able to power up the computers and they should see the net. Hope it works.
 
I'll try that when I get home. The other day my wife was on my PC in the morning adn the internet worked fine, then when I got home from work my PC wasn't getting internet action so I did a few things - power off airport, power off modem, call comcast help - and i finally got it to work, but that was after I removed the airport.

Friday I'll power off my PC, her Mac, shut off the modem, let it power up fully then do the same with the airport before I put a PC or MAC on it.

I'll reply afterwards.
 
stain. said:
Comcast cable modem -> Ethernet cable -> Airport
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This doesnt exactly make sense (given that you say you also have a PC plugged in somewhere), are you sure you didnt mean
Comcast -> Router -> Airport Express ?

Set the Airport to have DHCP disabled and set the mode of the Airport Express as Wireless Bridge... that should clear everything up assuming everything else is okay on the network.
 
Yeah, that's what I ment.

I took it to the apple store today because I have tried everything and it doesn't work. They got it to work there on their network but when I got home, and plugged it in, it doesn't work. Same issues. I can connect to it, but nowhere past the AE. I've reset my cable modem and the AE. Turned off the modem, turned it on. Turned off the AE, turned it on, then plugged it in THEN connected my PC to it.. fail.




If those pix help any. if I hook up to the AE at all, I loose ANY internet connectivity.
 
i've got a coworker comming over to check it out. I love working for an IT firm where we specialize in Apple products.. Too bad I'm not a tech.. I just sell stuffs.
 
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