How to restart base station from airport utility? I used to be able to do it remotely I currently use a Mac Pro 10.8.4 and have a time machine for wireless 6.3 (630.34). Sometimes I cannot connect to the internet and use network preferences to diagnose t

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How to restart base station from airport utility? I used to be able to do it remotely I currently use a Mac Pro 10.8.4 and have a time machine for wireless 6.3 (630.34). Sometimes I cannot connect to the internet and use network preferences to diagnose t

How to restart base station from airport utility? I used to be able to do it remotely

I currently use a Mac Pro 10.8.4 and have a time machine for wireless 6.3 (630.34). Sometimes I cannot connect to the internet and use network preferences to diagnose the issue. This results in being told to restart the wireless. The airport utility includes the drop down option of restarting but is not clickable so I can't choose it.

With my prior macbook and same time capsule, etc if i had problems connecting to the internet I would run network diagnostics to help out. This included clicking on the airport utility ---> base station --> restart. This worked most of the time.

Bottom line, is there something I am missing in not being able to restart the wi-fi remotely? ]

Thanks in advance

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 29, 2013 12:03 PM

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Bob Timmons

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Jun 29, 2013 12:11 PM in response to doctorfegg

Open AirPort Utility and click on the AirPort icon for the device that you want

Click the Base Station menu, then click Restart

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Jun 29, 2013 1:32 PM in response to Bob Timmons

Thank you - that let me use the restart button! Thank you so much

BUT - that only works if the select wifi device is showing up so I can click on it. How about when the utility reports that there are no devices found?

With my previous set up I could click for a rescan to detect devices and if the preferred one did not appear I could select restart from the tool bar. This usually did the trick.

Thanks again for your speedy and helpful reply!

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