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The AirPort Extreme is a wireless networking router produced by Apple

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Slow Airport Extreme -> Cable Modem ping time

While I currently have the new Airport Extreme router, I had the same problem with my previous router as well (which was a Netgear running dd-wrt). The setup is extremely basic: I have a cable modem ...
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Airport Extreme Add Wireless Clients Without Needing Password?

Under the Airport's Add Wireless Clients menu, there is a feature to allow me to grant access to my WPA protected network on the first attempt someone makes to connect, without requiring them to know ...
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Issue connecting Vista Toshiba laptop to Airport Extreme Wifi - but a Windows 7 Dell connects fine

I have a Toshiba L355D-S7815 laptop. I also have a Dell Latitude E6400. The Toshiba is running Windows Vista Home Edition and has all current patches applied. The Dell is running Windows 7 ...
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iBook PPC: Change Airport's MAC Address

I have been attempting to set-up HomePass for my 3DS on my iBook. I basically need to change my Airport's MAC Address and share my internet in order to make this work, but I am having trouble changing ...
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Home Network with Apple AirPort and Netgear Routers Being Flooded with IGMP Messages

This is how my home network is set up: Comcast Modem ---- Netgear dual WAN (doing the DHCP) | | |-------------------| (((Apple ...
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Wireless network goes down when Windows 10 computer joins

I upgraded to Windows 10 and now randomly my Airport extreme router (in bridge mode) goes down when the Windows machine connects. The network works fine for months when the machine is on but within ...
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How to setup AirPort Extreme 802.11n to connect to my wifi and share its ports?

Is there any way to force my AP Extreme to act as an wifi client and share it´s ethernet ports? This is no problem with my AP express, but I want to utilize the gigabit ports and switch capabilities ...
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Windows laptop losing connection to Airport Express

I have a Windows 7 laptop connecting through wifi to an Airport Extreme router at work. When I leave work in the evening with my hibernating laptop and come back the following morning, it's unable to ...
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How to secure port forwarding on AirPort Extreme

I have a small home server to share photos, blog, videos, etc. with family and friends around the US and Western Europe. Of course I have seen evidence of malicious scanning against my network/server....
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Edit AirPort Extreme settings Linux terminal

I'm using a raspberry pi as a sort of network login (ssh, VPN, nas access) for when I'm not at home. I have an AirPort Extreme router. Is there a way of changing the routers settings from the ...
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How can I port forward with an airport extreme and a NAT enabled modem?

I run an Actiontec HD701D modem with NAT to an Airport extreme base station to laptop etc. As you might expect I get double NAT issues. I tried a lot of different things to forward a port, but no ...
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All network devices freezing when Airport Extreme Base Station is connected. Any ideas?

I've been troubleshooting this issue for a while, and through a series of events have it narrowed down to my airport extreme base station. I like this router, since I'm able to connect to IPV6 sites ...
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Trying to reach home network devices/airport extreme files outside my home network by connecting with Openvpn to a Pivpn server at home

What I'm trying to do is to reach my home network router's (airport extreme) disk outside my home network. Using the airport extreme like a NAS to reach the files I have on it. I have successfully ...
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cannot connect to local server from ip address?

I am trying to hit a local server running on my macbook pro from an external device (iphone/ipad), but am unable to. I have an airport extreme, and so going I followed these instructions: https://...
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Airport Extreme - NAT/Bridge Mode with fixed IP

we moved to a new office with a new router/modem where I disabled the Wi-Fi signal and plugged in the ethernet to use the Airport Extrem to send out the Wi-Fi Signal through the office. Also we have ...
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Can't configure AirPort Extreme - device won't save settings changed from defaults

I have factory reset my AirPort Extreme (Model A1521) and I am trying to configure it to replace a TP-Link router that seems to have issues when multiple devices are using the Wi-Fi (it drops the Wi-...
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Airport Extreme Internet Dropping

I am using an Airport Extreme router in my house, and up until recently, it used to work great. However, as of late, my wireless internet connection has started dropping, and I was wondering if you ...
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local wireless is slow

I'm trying to transfer data from one mbp to another over my local wireless, and the most I get is around 5 - 10 MB/s. Is this normal?
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Airport Extreme broadcast from laptop?

I have an Airport Extreme and a Macbook Pro. I want to connect the Airport to the Macbook and provide wifi service to an area. I want devices that connect to the Airport to be able to connect to the ...
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Detect when device joins wireless network (airport router)

I'm reposting this question with a more clear description as the other one was closed. Not sure if there's a different way to do this or not. Is there any way to detect when a device joins my network ...
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Connecting via Ethernet on second AirPort Extreme

Would It be possible to connec my xbox 360 to a second AirPort Extreme, wherein this AirPort Extreme is wirelessly linked to the first? I assume it is and is straight forward, but I thought I'd ask ...
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Airport Extreme with G4, iMac and iPad?

I just purchased a new iMac running Lion 10.7.3 ( 2.7 GHz with i5 ) and a 16 Gig Wifi iPad, I also have a G4 867 Power PC running Tiger 10.4.11. Currently I have a Linksys 2.4 Ghz 802.11g router ...
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