dlink extreme N and airport extreme

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dlink extreme N and airport extreme

i am a proud new owner of a macbook. i use to be a pc person till my roommate at college helped me see the light. my problem comes with my pc (of course). i have a airport extreme and it works great with my mac but not so good with my pc. i have a dlink wireless n card in my pc. i can see the airport but i can't connect. i would like to connect so i can use the printer in one room and have my mac in another and for sharing my itunes library. does dlink not work work with airport or what? i am stumped.

MacBook/COMPAQ(Presario), Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 9, 2007 1:35 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 9, 2007 8:12 PM in response to TheRaptor

I use the D-Link Rangebooser G, USB and it works fine. I thought that with N it would be even better. Try to disable your firewall and see if it works. Later you can setup your firewall to accept as trusted application the airport agent. I had some trublle with connecting to the disk sever and printer with the firewall on.

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Dec 5, 2007 6:46 AM in response to TheRaptor

I had to get windows out of the way. I stop it from controlling my networks and used the d-link network manager. it works fine now. crapy windows

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Answer 3

Dec 5, 2007 12:34 PM in response to TheRaptor

Could you please expound on that? I have the same problem. What do you mean by you "had to get windows out of the way"? Did you shut down all of the security features of the windows firewall?

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Answer 4

Dec 5, 2007 3:37 PM in response to TheRaptor

Hi there.

I have a brand new Airport Extreme router working fantastically with my iMac. My roommate is on a PC and has a d-link DWA 130 USB wireless network adapter. If the network is set up without a password, she can connect to the network without any issues.

When I set up the network with a WEP password to keep the connection from being public, she can still see the network in the d-link connection manager. She will then input the correct password but nothing will happen. In short, when I secure our connection, she gets hosed.

My question is, what can I do to solve this problem? I've tried everything on her end (I think), is there a setting or two I should be concerned with on my end?

Thanks, and take it easy

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