AirPort Utility on Mac Mini can't find AirPorts
Hello forum
I have a mac mini attached to my TV. Internet is available trough airport extreme and I stream music to my living room through airport express. The airport extreme shows up as wifi network and the mac mini is connected to the internet through this connection.
But the problem is, that neither the airport extreme nor the airport express show up in the airport utility application on my Mac Mini.
When I start up the airport utility on my MacBook Pro, both airports show up and I can configure them. I also restarted both of them.
The strange thing is, that sometimes either one of the devices shows up on the airport utility application on the mac mini. But never both. When I restart search for airport devices suddenly no device can be found. But the mac mini is connected to the Internet through the airport extreme! How can the airport utility application not find the airport extreme, when the computer clearly has established a connection to it? Also in the System Profiler Application the AirPort Extreme is listet and I can ping the Extreme als well as the Express. I restarted the mac mini and one device showed up for some time and went lost again, when i restarted the search for airport devices.
That wouldn't be much of a problem as i can configure the devices with my Mac Book Pro, but unfortunately iTunes on the Mac Mini looses the connection to the airport express too! This can happen in the middle of streaming, which is very annoying!
The signal strength is perfect and there is no interference from other networks. Also the AirPort Utility on the MacBook Pro has no trouble finding the airport devices and doesn't loose connection to the airport express when streaming music with iTunes.
I am at the and of my wit. I can't tell when the mac mini finds the devices and when it doesn't. The problem appears to be random.
Any help is appreciated!
Cheers
meisterbrau
I have a mac mini attached to my TV. Internet is available trough airport extreme and I stream music to my living room through airport express. The airport extreme shows up as wifi network and the mac mini is connected to the internet through this connection.
But the problem is, that neither the airport extreme nor the airport express show up in the airport utility application on my Mac Mini.
When I start up the airport utility on my MacBook Pro, both airports show up and I can configure them. I also restarted both of them.
The strange thing is, that sometimes either one of the devices shows up on the airport utility application on the mac mini. But never both. When I restart search for airport devices suddenly no device can be found. But the mac mini is connected to the Internet through the airport extreme! How can the airport utility application not find the airport extreme, when the computer clearly has established a connection to it? Also in the System Profiler Application the AirPort Extreme is listet and I can ping the Extreme als well as the Express. I restarted the mac mini and one device showed up for some time and went lost again, when i restarted the search for airport devices.
That wouldn't be much of a problem as i can configure the devices with my Mac Book Pro, but unfortunately iTunes on the Mac Mini looses the connection to the airport express too! This can happen in the middle of streaming, which is very annoying!
The signal strength is perfect and there is no interference from other networks. Also the AirPort Utility on the MacBook Pro has no trouble finding the airport devices and doesn't loose connection to the airport express when streaming music with iTunes.
I am at the and of my wit. I can't tell when the mac mini finds the devices and when it doesn't. The problem appears to be random.
Any help is appreciated!
Cheers
meisterbrau
MacBook Pro, iMac, Macmini, Mac OS X (10.6.6), AirPort Utility can't find AirPort on Mac Mini