Airport Time Capsule Autoasign IP Address to all my wireless devices

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Airport Time Capsule Autoasign IP Address to all my wireless devices

Dear Friends,

I just bought a Airport Time Capsule, and configured it it started to work perfectly on my MacBook12" but when my wife started to use her MacBook Pro and our iPhones.... It could not connect to wifi, The Macbook shows the following message "This MacBook has an autoasing IP Adress". I have search all over internet for a solution and there are like 6billions of solutions.... I have tried a few... a couple... well I have tried a lot of them, and there is no change.... could you please help me please!!

Thanks!

Jose

Posted on Sep 7, 2015 10:24 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 7, 2015 2:36 PM in response to baal_uriel

I suspect the setup is wrong..

For instance you have bridged the TC to a bridged modem.. this will hand out one IP.. ie the one that your 12" MacBook gets and that is the end.

So you MUST have the TC in the correct operation mode.. Lets pursue that to start with.

What modem do you have?

Is it a router as well?

How is the TC setup, router or bridge?

Give me a few screenshots from the Macbook that does work of the setup.

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baal_uriel Author

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Sep 7, 2015 2:57 PM in response to LaPastenague

Thank you very much my friend for your response, Im not home right, but once I get there I will send you the stuff you require... but please could you tell me how to do a screenshot on MacOS.... and also where do I see the setup of the TC.

What I can answer is that I have a cable modem, it is just a modem.

The TC is set as router... the airport express is setup as the expansion... but does´t work

Thank you very much.

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Answer 3

Sep 9, 2015 5:45 AM in response to baal_uriel

When you get home I want the exact model of the modem.. all is not well in apple router land.. and they have very picky taste in modems they will link up with.

Screenshots in Mac. (I cheated.. I spent 10sec on google.. and copy and pasted the reference at the top.. google is your friend).

Take a screenshot of part of your screen

Press Command (⌘)-Shift-4. ...
Move the crosshair pointer to where you want to start the screenshot.
Drag to select an area. ...
When you've selected the area you want, release your mouse or trackpad button. ...
Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.

How to take a screenshot on your Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361

Post the picture here using the little camera at the top there. It will open a menu to finder to locate the file on the desktop.

The ones I want to see are these.

Click on edit and you can also give me internet and network screens.

Please do give me the whole .. I have given the top portion only to save space.

However these are the correct values.

I will also need to see the express and how it is setup.. as that wasn't mentioned in the first post..

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baal_uriel Author

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Sep 7, 2015 4:41 PM in response to LaPastenague

Ok my friend,

Here are the screen shots... the first 2 are for the TC and the other 2 are for the express.

My modem is a webstar 2100 series... which Im planning to change for a a Motorola Arris Surfboard SB6141.... but I can contact my cable operator to do the chance... so... right now is the webstar modem.

Thanks!

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Answer 5

Sep 9, 2015 5:45 AM in response to baal_uriel

Yes,, thanks you are in the wrong mode..

You are in bridge mode.. so change that to dhcp and NAT mode and it should then work.

If this setting is not accepted reset the TC and start over.. make sure it is router mode..

As a warning SB6141 and Apple routers is a bad combo.

For now stick with the webstar 2100..

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baal_uriel Author

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Sep 8, 2015 11:54 AM in response to LaPastenague

Thank you very much my friend!!! It worked! Now my TC and my Express are working perfectly! Thanks a Lot... BTW I wanted to ask you one last question, which are the best cable modem to use with apple products? I aske this because I think the webstar modem that I have is not giving me the best conectivity, that is why I bought the SB6141, because it various websites said that it was the best cable modem out there. Now that you mention that SB6141 and TC are bad combo, I want something better than my webstar but that works good with my apple stuff.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards,

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Answer 7

Sep 8, 2015 12:22 PM in response to baal_uriel

What model is your TC? A1xxx from the base please.. unless you know the Gen..

If yours is Gen4 or earlier simply change it to 7.6.1 firmware and it should work ok with SB6141.. it is the later firmware and any of the AC models.

I am not in the US or on Cable.. so I really cannot tell you what modem to use.. Ubee or Zoom are ones I have heard of that seem to have less issues.

I do know the SB models have issues.. because of the sheer number of reports.. just do a google search or local search here for the problem.

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baal_uriel Author

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Sep 8, 2015 1:05 PM in response to LaPastenague

Thank you very much! Im no in the States, I will google it to see the differents choices that I could have. My TC is the latest model with firmware 7.6.3.

Thank you very much for all your support!

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Answer 9

Sep 8, 2015 1:15 PM in response to baal_uriel

baal_uriel wrote:

Thank you very much! Im no in the States, I will google it to see the differents choices that I could have. My TC is the latest model with firmware 7.6.3.

Thank you very much for all your support!

Your TC cannot be the latest one.. 7.6.3 firmware is for Gen 1-4 only and is not the latest.. in fact it is poor firmware.. Go back to 7.6.1 to use the SB6141.

The new TC.. tall AC model uses 7.7.3 firmware.. and it is not possible to downgrade.. and no matter if you did it would still have issues.

However try it out.. there is no harm if you already have the modem in trying it.. for some people it is ok. At least for a while.

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