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Dec 30, 2013 11:34 AM in response to WLRDPby Tesserax,What is the make & model of both the wireless router that you are trying to extend and of the extender?
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Dec 30, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Tesseraxby WLRDP,The Extender is A1392 (we have two in the house and the other one just started blinking too). The Airport Extreme is A1143.
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Dec 30, 2013 11:51 AM in response to Tesseraxby WLRDP,When I click on the Airport Utility I see where the extender is having an issue (I just clicked on the one that just started blinking and it must have re-calibrated itself so there is no issue with that one now). The one that is g=having an issue gets "found" but when I click on it and it shows that it is trying to connect I get an unexpected error message???
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Dec 30, 2013 11:57 AM in response to WLRDPby Tesserax,Ok, thank you for providing the additional base station information.
Note: Your 2nd generation 802.11n AirPort Express base stations can only extend one of the Extreme's Wi-Fi networks. That is because, you have a 1st generation 802.11n AirPort Extreme, which can only operate on one of the radios (2.4 or 5 GHz) at a time. Most likely, the Express base stations will only be extending the 2.4 GHz radio. If you want both radios extended, you will have to upgrade your Extreme to a 3rd generation model or later that supports simultaneous dual-band operation.
I would suggest the following:
- Power-down all of your AirPort base stations.
- Bring both extender (Express) base stations into the same room as the Extreme.
- Perform a "factory default" reset on all of your AirPort base stations.
- Temporarily plug both Express base stations into the available LAN (opposing arrows) ports of the Extreme. Do not plug either Express base station into power just yet.
- Power-up the AirPort Extreme. Wait for it to initialize.
- Verify that you can get Internet access from both wired and wireless clients connected to the Extreme.
- Power-up one of the AirPort Express base stations.
- Use the AirPort Utility to configure the Express to extend the Extreme.
- Allow the Express to restart. Verify that you can still gain Internet access with the extended network.
- Power-down the Express; place it at the desired location, and then, power-up the Express; allow it time to reinitialize.
- Verify that both the Extreme and the Express have solid green status LEDs.
- Power-up the second Express. Again use the linked procedure to configure it to extend the Extreme. Allow time for the Express to restart and initialize.
- Verify that all three base stations have solid green status LEDs.
- Power-down the second Express, and then, place it at the desired location.
- Power-up the Express and allow it time to initialize.
- Again, verify that all three base stations have a solid green status LED.
- Finally, verify that you can gain Internet access from your extended network.