Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Barry Sexstone
Hi Muggers I have just purchased a new Airport Express and I am having some odd problems which I am sure someone will solve for me. I followed the instructions plugging everything in prior to turning on the power, set up the base station password etc, at this stage Airport Utility reported

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Barry, Power your Modem Off, wait a few seconds then power it back on. You might find you need to restart the MacBook Air for it to connect. If the Amber light is still flashing, check in Airport Utility for errors and post back. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 22/07/2013, at

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Barry Sexstone
Hi Ronni I Tried the power/off trick as one of the earlier checks, Airport Utility reports ethernet cable not connected. I should have mentioned in my first post that I tried another cable with the same results. I have now reverted to the old system using the same ethernet cable. Regards

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Barry, You do have an Ethernet cable connected to the WAN port on AE to your DSL modem? An Ethernet cable connected to LAN port to Ethernet Port on your iMac? Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 22/07/2013, at 5:05 PM, Barry Sexstone bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I Tried the

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Barry Sexstone
Ronni Ethernet cable connected WAN on EA to modem. No physical connection from computer. I have been using an Mk2 AE as my router but I was hoping to eventually use this to extend my network so I bought the new AE and have been trying to set it up initially just to do the same as the

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Barry Sexstone
Ronni SUCCESS I turned everything off, then back on and reset the AE (twice!) then started again from scratch (again twice) and the second time was successful. Thank you very much for your input, as always your rapid response and help is much appreciated. Barry On 22/07/2013, at 7:05

Re: Airport Express amber flashing

2013-07-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Ah that is good to hear Barry. Might have been an incorrect setting somewhere in the original setup. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 22/07/2013, at 7:51 PM, Barry Sexstone bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Ronni SUCCESS I turned everything off, then back on and reset the AE