Hi,
If you have a Macbook/Macbook Pro, then just swap them, smiley.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 22-Dec-08, at 1:36 PM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Hi again Esther.
I'm using wpa2 on my wireless network here so I assume as you said
the setup should be easy.
I actually thought you would get a decent power cable with the
airport express but it's just a power plug on the corner of the
square unit.
that should not be a problem.
Looking forward to streaming some good quality iTunes music over the
network.
Thanks again for the help and assistance.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: Airport express configuration assistance please
Hi David and Scott,
Scott wrote:
Would anything happen if I firstly didn't connect an audio cable
to the stereo and the airport express and told airport express I
just wanted to use the airport express to stream music on my
iTunes to a stereo and then after the setup went and connected the
cable?
Does it actually make a big difference having the audio cable
connected first?
I understand your instructions just wondered if anything bad would
have happened if just configuring the express first then connect
the audio cable once set up and updated if this would work or if
I should take the airport express to the other room, connect the
audio cable to the 3.5 mm jack and then walk back to the mac and
run airport utility?
Any thoughts?
I could of coursse do all this on my macbook right near the stereo
as well couldn't I seen's both iTunes libraries are both synced on
both macs.
David's reply mentioned that you should set up the AirPort Express and
check that it is connected to and recognized by your existing wireless
network first. If you're using WPA or WPA2 security on your existing
wireless network, then the setup is pretty much automatic. I'm not
even sure that you really do have to connect up your audio beforehand,
since as soon as your AE is recognized by the network and you assign
it a name it will show up as one of the optional locations when you
start up iTunes whether or not any audio devices are attached. Having
something plugged into the audio out of the AirPort Express -- whether
this is your stereo system or just headphones -- simply makes it
easier to test that the streaming is working. It makes more sense
that you'd want to have a shared printer plugged in before running
AirPort Utility so that you can proceed immediately with that network
setup.
The problems David had turned out to arise from his connection to a
WEP-only wireless network. I found that the new "Take Control of Your
AirPort 802.11n Network" guide does describe these issues:
<begin quote>
WEP (Transitional Security Network)
The Extreme N supports WEP Transitional, a rare and interesting
security mode that I and colleagues have found to be problematic and
buggy in actual usage. WEP Transitional lets you mix older WEP-only
Wi-Fi connections with newer WPA/WPA2 connections.
The problematic part is conceptual: the network encryption is as
weak as the weakest link. Using WEP Transitional leaves you vulner-
able to the same cracks that affect plain WEP. The buggy part is that
it’s seemingly erratic whether computers can connect via WEP, WPA,
or WPA2 in this mode.
<end quote>
The Take Control guide goes on to suggest different ways to tackle
this addition. There's actually quite a lot of device and brand
specific information in this guide about wireless features, but some
issues boil down to specific configurations.
HTH. I've left David's reply appended, but deleted the earlier emails
to keep this post from being too long.
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 22, 2008, at 5:49 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi scott,
Once the ae is setup, you can unplug it and move it. You should
test it first though with a headset to make sure it is connecting
to ITunes. To do this, connect it to the router you are using,
which is what? then start the airport utility and go through the
setup as described in the document following the instructions on
the screen to join a wireless network. when it is done, it will
restart and if successfull, it will show up in the airport
utility. close airport utility, start ITunes and make sure that
in ITunes prefs, you are set to look for remote speakers with
airtunes. It is checked by default but if you have unchecked it
for some reason, you will want to make sure it is checked.
Close the prefs window, find with vo and arrow keys where it says
computer. press space on this and youwill have three choices,
computer, multiple speakers and if it was successful, you will see
the name you gave the ae. if it is not successful, you won't even
see the computer icon. Choose your ae and press enter. It should
then begin streaming as soon as you start a song. If all is well,
move it to the stereo area and hook it up and test it again as above.
I've tried this with and without a password. ifyou choose to use a
password, if there is a connection interruption, you'll have to
type the password in to restart the connection. If not, all you
have to do is choose the ae again. My ae is named meowing but by
default, it will probably be scott's airport express or something,
shorter is better <g> It should work fine with your router, but I
had to fiddle with router settings to get it to work for me. It
did not matter what I did on the ae side, nothing worked till I
got the router set up right and I had little guidance that worked
toward a solution although there was a lot of info provided by
esther an tim kilburn. I finally just had to look and puzzle it
out. My router is a netgear and I had to change a setting I have
not seen on any other router to get it to work. Let me know if
you run into essoteric issues and I'll try to help f I can because
I did a lot of trial and error before mine worked. If when you
are told the router will restart, you get a message that airport
utility could not find your airport express and to close and
restart and restarting does not find the ae, you'll have to reset
the ae and start over. You should not have this problem when
using the eternet for setup though. the other issue tha will
cause you to need to restart will be an error writing the
configuration. Reset and try again. I often used the manual
setup to trouble shoot before I finally got it right.
Enjoy and let us know if we can help further.
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:01 AM,
