Chromecast- Airport Extreme: Not Casting

Hello everyone, So I bought A new rMBP, and I had to also get the airport extreme to combo the whole experience.

I have a rMBP 2015, Airport Extreme, Apple TV, Chromecast, iPhone 6, Dell Windows 10 Laptop, & Dell 1320c Color Laser Printer.

I have never had an issue before, but after installing my new router(AE) and connecting all my devices to it, I cannot see the casting tab in any of my chrome cast apps. I am wondering if apple just doesn't talk to chromecast.


I really don't want to have to buy another apple tv for the living room, I am fine with using the chromecast with my laptop and other apps. Can someone please shed some light on this situation? I need help and have exhausted all my resources and have not been able to find anything online in reference. Keep in mind I am very Tech savvy and had never had this kind of problem before. So everything is correctly hooked up, connected, and set up. Just can't cast to my chromecast. Could it be a block from the Airport extreme? because it works just fine with my Netgear WNDR3700 N600. Thank you, I appreciate any and all help on this.






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Chromecast-OTHER, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Airport Extreme, rMBP early 2015

Posted on Jan 31, 2016 12:41 AM

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Feb 6, 2016 3:40 PM in response to okeoki

So I found a solution, I was on the phone with the support team about using chromecast with Airport Extreme, and I have compiled settings from google, to help in the support of using chromecast 1st generation with Airport extreme, You have to Isolate the band 2.4 from the 5Ghz and use all the devices you're wanting to cast to chromecast from on the same network 2.4 ghz. -Enable: Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), multicast, Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

Disable: AP/client isolation, virtual private networks (VPNs), proxy servers, IGMP Proxy

VPNs and proxy servers should be disabled on your computer as well (if applicable).Chromecast (1st generation) is only compatible with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi networks, so it won't list 5 GHz networks when setting up the device. CCst must be on 2.4


To Isolate the networks you have to go into your AEBS and under the wireless tab, click on 5gz as active and rename it with 5ghz so you'll know which one it is. and then the other network at 2.4 will stay the same, you now have two isolated networks, and chromecast and devices must be on the same 2.4ghz network.


My chromecast now works fine!

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