Flashy
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The AirPort Express has arrived. Having read Azzin's thread, I should have known it wouldn't be plain sailing.
After failing to connect wirelessly (despite Airport Utility being able to see the AE...), I managed it with a wired connection, and can now play music from laptop to powered speakers, via AE, but also via an ethernet cable.
I want to be able to stream wirelessly, so have asked the AE to join my existing wireless network - is this right? The O2 Wireless router I use to connect to the net has a 64bit WEP key, yet the AirPort Utility will only let me select 40bit or 128bit. Went with the lower option and set everything up apparently fine.
Yet the second the ethernet cable is unplugged, all talk of AE disappears - no icon in iTunes, utility can't even see it. Obviously it's a wireless problem, so going to restore factory settings and start again.
In the meantime, if anyone can spot anything I've done wrong or missed....
After failing to connect wirelessly (despite Airport Utility being able to see the AE...), I managed it with a wired connection, and can now play music from laptop to powered speakers, via AE, but also via an ethernet cable.
I want to be able to stream wirelessly, so have asked the AE to join my existing wireless network - is this right? The O2 Wireless router I use to connect to the net has a 64bit WEP key, yet the AirPort Utility will only let me select 40bit or 128bit. Went with the lower option and set everything up apparently fine.
Yet the second the ethernet cable is unplugged, all talk of AE disappears - no icon in iTunes, utility can't even see it. Obviously it's a wireless problem, so going to restore factory settings and start again.
In the meantime, if anyone can spot anything I've done wrong or missed....
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