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Hivemind, please help me. I just helped my mom get a new Macbook and have set it all up and configured it to work just swimmingly, but her Airport Express is generating a single IP address that only one laptop (hers or mine) seems to be able to use at a time. How do I get it to generate a separate IP address for each laptop as it connects? I know how to access the IP addresses and could assign one manually if I knew what number to assign...? Or, better yet, is there a way to just get the AE to do it automatically?
ETA: The warning message I get is the standard "another device on your network is using your computer's IP address," but when I looked at the Airport, the address seems attached to it, not the laptops connecting to it.
Have you tried resetting the Airport Express?
Yep, same problem. I'm going to unplug it for a few hours and will check it again when we get home later. If anyone has any insights in the meantime, I'd appreciate them!
check to make sure you have updated the firmware, do a hard reset, and reinstall everything. those are my suggestions in that order.
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Nice!
iTunes is warning me that this update may take over an hour. Probably not worth it since I'm planning to upgrade this month anyway, but I guess it's too late to stop now...
[Holy crap, over two hours and still going. Is restoring the media the last step?]
[Apparently not. Now it's re-optimizing all my photos. Oy.]
I have determined that I know just enough to be dangerous with this stupid Airport Extreme (not express). I updated the firmware, which was indeed woefully outdated, but that didn't work. Then I checked to make sure it was configured correctly for the stupid DSL, which it seemed to be. Restarted again. Didn't work. I tried futzing around more to no avail. Now im getting this warning: "99.60.19.121 in use by 00:0d:93:fa:11, DHCP Server 192.168.0.1". Um. WTF?!?? Also argh.
And now I'm back where I started. One computer can get one, but if I try to get the second laptop on I get a "Another device on the network is using your comouter's IP address (99.33.199.213)." Gah! I hate DSL. And my own incompetance.
Ftr, I tried to do a hard reset but since I currently have exactly one Ethernet cable and therefore can either connect my laptop and the airport OR the airport and the DSL modem but not both at the same time, I couldn't go through with it. Argh!!!
Pix, In network in System Preferences, try clicking on the airport, and clicking "Advanced" hen under tcpip, change ipv4 to manually, set the P to 192.168.0.100, with the gateway and router to 192.168.0.1, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and under the DNS tab add 192.168.0.1 as well.
Turn off IPV6.
