Airport Extreme and PC

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Airport Extreme and PC

I have an Airport wireless network - which works fine on all Mac products. I cannot get any PC to connect so that it can go out to the Internet (I've tried on several - including my Macbook Pro running Windows). It seems to connect to the airport, but not for going out to the Internet. What am I missing?

Cath

macbookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Nov 4, 2010 11:37 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 30, 2010 6:37 AM in response to Catherine Larson

I'm going to post again - am I the only person that has trouble getting a PC to access the web with my airport wireless? PC can connect to the Airport, but not the web - what am I missing?

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Shmabish

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Nov 30, 2010 3:52 PM in response to Catherine Larson

i have the same problem and have started a thread about it as well....but no one has attempted to help yet! 😟

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Answer 3

Dec 25, 2010 7:53 AM in response to Catherine Larson

Same problem here. The Windows 7 will not see my Airport Extreme.

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DHH4

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Dec 27, 2010 11:26 AM in response to Catherine Larson

i have the same probelm --- have you found a fix?

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Answer 5

Jan 4, 2011 5:34 PM in response to Catherine Larson

Is anyone form Apple monitoring this?
My airport Extreme works with my Macs and android phones. I cannot get a pc or playstation to access the Internet through the wireless. It will recognize the airport - but cannot get an "address" to access the Internet.

I removed all security and they connect fine. I do not like this solution. Can anyone help??

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JPoulsen

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Jan 5, 2011 7:27 PM in response to Catherine Larson

Amen! I was on the phone today with Applecare and they told me to come here for the answer--guess no one has figured it out yet. The tips he gave me were: 1-to drop firewalls, 2-reduce spyware and 3-change my security settings on the Airport instead of "WAP" to "WEP". It didn't work for my PC I'm trying to connect to my Airport, but maybe it will for yours.

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JPoulsen

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Jan 5, 2011 8:09 PM in response to JPoulsen

I was just able to connect my PC to the airport network. I went into my PC to: control panel--wireless network set up wizard. Then go through the steps and on one of the steps at the bottom of the box it asked if you want to connect to a network that is WAP, I clicked the box and I was on. Hope that helps someone else.

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Answer 8

Feb 19, 2011 6:59 AM in response to JPoulsen

Thanks for responding - I never got this notification. Your solution didn't work for me - but I finally got a solution to work!

This is for others who are looking for a solution!
Right click on the network you are trying to connect to
Click on Properties
Click on Security (I am using WPA2 Personal)
CHANGE the encription to TKIP
Put in the airport PASSWORD not the super long characters b0aaf084bb2j54038f183e611e93ad76

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marbritt

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Feb 19, 2011 2:08 PM in response to Catherine Larson

I have had a similar problem for five days since installing Airport.
The odd thing in my situation is that 2 laptops running different versions
of Windows picked up the signal immediately - without even having installed
Airport software or changing settings.
BUT one PC (a desktop) on which I DID install the Airport software cannot
connect.
I will try the recommended fixes, but think we should keep the thread going
in order to furnish more information to the Geniuses in case they are listening.
There must be a bug? PS I think some Amazon techies have discussed this
in the product comments on that site.

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Answer 10

Feb 19, 2011 2:55 PM in response to marbritt

The pc's i tried to connect would see the network but I could not get it to go to the internet. I tried with 5 different pc's XP and 7. I finally succeeded today by the solution i posted. I found the lack of support on this issue frustrating.

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roguexxy

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Feb 23, 2011 2:22 PM in response to Catherine Larson

This is so Nutso, wish I could afford a Mac... I bought the Airport Extreme based on the many reviews, I thought it would be worth the money as most apple products tend to be... during set-up with Windows 7 and using the apple utility all works fine... then after it reboots with my new settings the airport utility cant find it anymore and thus I cannot configure any of the other settings and that dang amber light just blinks on and off forever, which a little piece of electrical tape works fine to fix, but I want to configure more settings and the utility cant find it, even if I use and ethernet connection??? this is driving me MAD... the network is up and works with my laptop and also my apple TV units... even the PS3 connects... but sharing Itunes does not, nor does sharing my printer... i went into my moto sbg900 and did the dmz (demilitary zone) and tweaked a few other systems to bypass which may be an issue, but still after the initial configuration, my airport utility cannot find the unit? any help?

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Answer 12

Feb 23, 2011 2:53 PM in response to roguexxy

You might want to try starting a new post for this problem. My initial problem was solved so I am not sure anyone is monitoring this thread.

I do not have any suggestions for your problem, since I use mostly Macs.

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jklongly

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Aug 31, 2011 11:24 AM in response to Catherine Larson

Thank you for posting this! I tried this and it worked! I can finally work from home on my PC at a normal speed. Whoop whoop!

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Answer 14

Nov 23, 2011 2:55 PM in response to Catherine Larson

Thank you! Switching to TKIP solved all of the problems I was having....and I googled for hours over the last several days. Thank you, thank you!

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Nitte73

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Apr 19, 2013 2:41 AM in response to Catherine Larson

Same trouble on my windows-machines. I connect to the Airport extreme, but can´t get to internet. Doesn´t work either with cable or wifi. My macs work well both wireless and by cable.

None of the advises above solved my problem. It is not an alternative to reduce security to WEP. And when I tried to change to TKIP, I didnt connect to the Airport at all.

I´ve reset my airport to fabric settings. And downloaded firmware-update too, but nothing changed.

Nitte

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