Having trouble hooking up Chromecast

For those of you using the new airport extreme, turn off Guest Wireless and run in 2.4Ghz mode only. Was able to get Chromecast up and running!

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The following link provides excelent instructions on how to configure an Airport Extreme for use with Chromecast. My set up includes two additional routers to extend my network. I do have a fixed IP.

https://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Apple_Airport

I was having the same issue with one of my tablets when trying to setup the Chromecast, and also finding it once I set up the Chromecase with another device. After searching for issues with Chromecase and Airport routers I found a link of known issues with Chromecast and different routers (Link provided below) For me this was the issue and once down grading from the latest firmware on the airport router I was able to see the Chromecast on the tablet that I was not able to before with newest version of firmware. Down grading the firmware was quite easy I just went into the routers utility found the option to upload firmware selected 7.6.1 from the drop down (as recommended) and after the restart of the router the device that was not able to see/setup the Chromecast was able to see the Chromecast.

Link to the site where I found this recommendation.

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3294846?hl=en

I simply changed the router name from multiple words to just a single word with numbers....

2013Airport

worked like a charm.

Can this be explained in more simplistic terms? I clicked on your link but have absolutely no idea what it all means. I just purchased chromecast and it is not connecting to my Time Capsule. Is there a way you could walk me through it in a way that someone who has very little knowledge of computers would understand? Thanks.

Can this be explained in more simplistic terms? I clicked on your link but have absolutely no idea what it all means. I just purchased chromecast and it is not connecting to my Time Capsule. Is there a way you could walk me through it in a way that someone who has very little knowledge of computers would understand? Thanks.

Same here - just removed the blank spaces and redid the Chromecast steps and it worked like a charm! I went ahead and removed the spaces in the guest and 5GHz also, although I don't think it was necessary since Chromecast uses the 2.4GHz connection. Only hassle was re-establishing wireless connection to the airport extreme from all of my phones and other devices!! I'm on OSX Mavericks 10.9.1 and Airport Extreme 7.7.2 firmware.

This exact same fix worked for me (the one mentioned by Bill). I am not excited about using Teredo tunnels though: it is an IPv6 hack, IMO, but it did fix the issue. I have a slighly updated system version set than Bill.

OS X 10.9.4

AirPort Utility v 6.3.2

AirPort Extreme v 7.7.3

But, going into my Base Station and selecting the Network tab, Network Options, an "Allow Teredo Tunnels" fixed the problem. Why native IPv6 was not just fine is beyond me, but I am not a network expert, I only know enough to cause myself problems. Oh, and I use no spaces in my network names but I do have a "-" hyphen in my wireless network name. On a side note, I did have to try the setup three times and the hyphen in my Chromecast device name seemed to be causing the problem with my initial failed attempts to setup my Chromecast...but it all works now.

Open Airport Utility, select BaseStation then Edit. Internet tab, click "Internet options..." button, then switch IPv6 option to "Automatically". Save everything and Chromecast will work with no problems.

Earlier my Chromecast was working perfectly, but suddenly it stopped working. I had not done anything, so very frustrating. Re-running the setup procedure for the Chromecast stopped at the point where it would not establish connection to my Airport Extreme router. Tried this several times, no luck.

Solution: In Airport Utility, under IPv6 options, I changed "IPv6 Mode" from "Native" to "Tunnel". After this the Chromecast setup worked just fine. Not sure exactly what this change does though...

I have an Airport Extreme from 2014, firmware 7.7.3, Guest Network enabled, spaces in the network names, 5 GHz enabled.

Update: I upgraded to the new 801.ac Time Machine. To successfully connect, I also had to use the Airport Utility on my Mac, go to the Base Station tab, and check the "Allow setup over WAN" box.

I had similar issues setting up my Chromecast Audio on Time Capsule firmware v 7.7.3.

In order to resolve, I needed to have "Block incoming IP6 connections" UNchecked in Network settings.