J Baustian
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This may have been answered many times, but just assume for the purposes of argument that I'm not very bright and need to have things explained slowly using small words.
I have an Airport Extreme base station hardwired to a Mac Mini, and Airport Utility seems to show everything is okay. Here are some of my settings:
Airport
Status = Normal
Version 7.4.2
Wireless Mode = Creat a wireless network
Wireless Clients = 2
Connect using Ethernet
Internet Connection -- using Ethernet
Configure IPv4 -- using DHCP
IP, Subnet Mask, Router Address, DNS Servers, etc.
Ethernet WAN Port -- Automatic
Connection Sharing -- Share a public IP address (IS THIS RIGHT?)
Radio Mode = 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)
Channel = Automatic
MAC Address Access Control -- Not Enabled
In System Preferences, Network, Airport and Ethernet are both "Connected" with Airport listed first (is this the way it's supposed to be?)
Under "Advanced", Preferred Networks, the same network is shown twice. And Ethernet is configured automatically.
under TCP/IP, IPv4 is configured using DHCP, the router is 10.0.1.1 and the IPv4 address is 10.0.1.3.
IPv6 is configured Automatically, but no router or address is given. I have no idea what these things mean.
The signal strength meter at the top of the screen usually shows one or two bars. The base station is only about 18" from the Mini, shouldn't the signal strength be at the maximum?
My wireless client is a Mac G5 running the most up-to-date version of OS 10.4. It is located on a different floor but only about 15 feet from the base station. The signal strength on the client is usually one bar but sometimes drops to zero. When this happens, what I've been doing is going back to the base station, unplugging and resetting it, sometimes hitting the reset button in the back, unplugging and resetting the cable modem.
No matter what I do, it seems as though my Airport Extreme base station just does not put out a signal strong enough to travel the 15 feet to the client computer. This is very frustrating. Any suggestions?
I have an Airport Extreme base station hardwired to a Mac Mini, and Airport Utility seems to show everything is okay. Here are some of my settings:
Airport
Status = Normal
Version 7.4.2
Wireless Mode = Creat a wireless network
Wireless Clients = 2
Connect using Ethernet
Internet Connection -- using Ethernet
Configure IPv4 -- using DHCP
IP, Subnet Mask, Router Address, DNS Servers, etc.
Ethernet WAN Port -- Automatic
Connection Sharing -- Share a public IP address (IS THIS RIGHT?)
Radio Mode = 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)
Channel = Automatic
MAC Address Access Control -- Not Enabled
In System Preferences, Network, Airport and Ethernet are both "Connected" with Airport listed first (is this the way it's supposed to be?)
Under "Advanced", Preferred Networks, the same network is shown twice. And Ethernet is configured automatically.
under TCP/IP, IPv4 is configured using DHCP, the router is 10.0.1.1 and the IPv4 address is 10.0.1.3.
IPv6 is configured Automatically, but no router or address is given. I have no idea what these things mean.
The signal strength meter at the top of the screen usually shows one or two bars. The base station is only about 18" from the Mini, shouldn't the signal strength be at the maximum?
My wireless client is a Mac G5 running the most up-to-date version of OS 10.4. It is located on a different floor but only about 15 feet from the base station. The signal strength on the client is usually one bar but sometimes drops to zero. When this happens, what I've been doing is going back to the base station, unplugging and resetting it, sometimes hitting the reset button in the back, unplugging and resetting the cable modem.
No matter what I do, it seems as though my Airport Extreme base station just does not put out a signal strong enough to travel the 15 feet to the client computer. This is very frustrating. Any suggestions?