#AIRPORT UTILITY DEVICE NOT FOUND FREE#

#AIRPORT UTILITY DEVICE NOT FOUND FREE#

but I may get energetic and drop another ethernet cable to the now-remoted AE-g unit ).īTW, for those of you who have Airport and/or Airport Express units, the free 'AirPort Utility' iApp can be real useful (e.g., to see how effectively the microwave blocks out an AE unit as you walk around the signal field ).British Airways passengers travelling in and out of Heathrow and other UK airports have been warned about a Twitter scam targeting those who have lost their luggage. that completely blocks the remoted AE-g unit (no, I'm not springing for another AE-n just for that - I have some Scottish blood in me!. I should note that I had the constant drop-out issues when playing iTunes music on a high-end iMac via the gigabit LAN connection, which then went through the AE-n to the remoted AE-g unit and into the stereo (well, intermittently, at least).Īt this point, I can reliably dump music from an iPhone 4S to the stereo while walking around the house - well, at least until a phone call comes in and interrupts it or until someone turns on the microwave in the kitchen. Previously all the AE units had been set to 20 minutes and I was getting extended dropouts about every 10-15 minutes - which would make sense if the 're-keying' was affecting the flow on both the WDS main and remote units and they were updated on different schedules ('though I would have expected that the buffering would take care of the main unit's re-keying delay). Once I set all the AE units to use a 'WPA Group Key Timeout' setting of '1 days', my constant drop-out issues went away. The other AE-g unit is also connected to the LAN via ethernet and is simply there to extend coverage when it's not put into my laptop case when traveling or being used for testing. The other AE-g and the AE-n units are both set to 100% 'Transmit Power'. To try to minimize interference, the power on the WDS remoted AE-g unit is turned down to 50% (because it only needs to communicate with the WDS Main AE-n unit, which is within about 30 feet/10 meters). That remoted AE-g unit is not connected to the LAN via ethernet (if it was, it wouldn't need to be a 'WDS remote') and it's sole purpose is to transport AirTunes/AirPlay music to our living-room stereo setup (i.e., it has 'Allow wireless clients' turned off). The AE-n unit is connected to the LAN via ethernet and it hosts a USB printer and is the 'WDS main' unit to which one of the AE-g units is remoted (i.e, slaved as a 'WDS remote'). One of the AE units is a new 'n'-capable version while the other two are the older 'g'-capable versions and have been in service for quite a while. The AE units are setup for LAN-based routing, only (i.e., 'Connection Sharing:' is set to 'Off (Bridge Mode)', and DHCP is handled by the RG. My setup consists of 3 Airport Express (AE) units, all behind a full-service (pfSense) router/gateway (RG). Because of previous research, I'd also set 'Wireless Security' to 'WPA2 Personal', but that hadn't cured things - 'though it may have helped and is still a better/more secure setting, assuming you don't still require WPA. I was having the same kind of drop-out issues described by many others but finally managed to solve it by changing the 'WPA Group Key Timeout' to be '1 days'. Just got a new wireless-n AE, and it seems some of the issues may have been resolved. Hope this works for people, as I love the AE's once they work. I've found that by changing my router wireless settings to either TKIP or AES, but not allowing the use of both, the dropouts no longer occur.

I've found that dropouts occur when the network router wireless settings allow for both TKIP and AES security protocols (on a WPA security setting). However, every time I set one up, I seem to forget about the dropout issues. Once it is recognized, the setup is straight-forward. It takes persistence, but eventually the Airport Utility will recognize it. I have often had to repeat these steps multiple times before I can get the Airport Utility to recognize it. In other cases, I have had to hold it down before plugging it in and then plug it in to get it to work. Sometimes holding down the reset button on the AE until the light blinks rapidly while it is plugged in works. The problem with dropouts when streaming music over an Airport Express g can be resolved by changing the network settings on the wireless router.įirst of all, the Airport Utility never seems able to find an Airport Express that does not have factory settings and is not set to communicate with the existing wireless network. I use it as a streaming device, so it is set up as a device on my network, and not as my router. And they work great once you get them working, but with the wireless-g models, I have always had problems setting them up on a new network after they have already been setup on another network. I've been using Airport Express wireless-g for years to stream music to my stereos.

Airport utility device not found