My bad. I must have misread your post.  :cry:  And yes, it is the drugs…

Apple stuff is ok though…my own personal experience is that they have as many if not more problems than PCs.

I do some consulting for a Mac only company and they have more problems than my PC clients. And these are Mac OS X systems. I have no idea what these people do but they have this incredible ability to take a freshly installed OS and corrupt it in a few weeks. Perhaps it’s the hardware…but I definitely don’t see the Macs are easier than PC argument. When things go wrong on a Mac, they seriously go wrong.

That said, I have an Apple Airport Express and it was insanely easy to setup and is a neat little device. I use it when I’m at client sites to setup my own private wireless network so I can roam from office to office. It’s a nice product (yes, i’m going to review it) and works well.

Lol, noobs…it happens on both ends of the coin, PC and Apple.

My dad’s secretaries are the worst, they’ve managed to screw up his network and PCs in ways I didn’t think possible, lol. Let’s not forget the one who used office supplies (ie Scanner + Digital Cameras) to take nude pics of herself for her website…a routine check of the computer revealed a nice reason to fire her (although my dad’s male employees were upset that they no longer could stare at the 19 year old hottie).

Erik

Nice. Kind of reminds me of the users partition on our main fileserver filled up a few years ago. We found that one of the users directories was 30GB - mostly downloaded porn videos. The kicker was that the owner of that directory was our in-house legal council.

That’s awesome…haha. Yeah, years ago my boss made me confront a user after I had found GBs of weird animal porn on their computer and user accounts. Yeah, that was an interesting conversation… :ph34r:

:oops: That must have been uncomfortable for both of you…

Did you every see the movie Cheats?

‘What about the doberman?’

Erik

[quote author=“gk31ax”]Does anyone out there have one of these.  I bought mine last week and am having major issues getting the thing to work at home :(

I tried to hook it up with my printer first - no luck! When I switch it on, all it does is flash yellow, which according to the handbook means there is a problem with my internet?

Any thoughts or pointers?

I’m using my TR2 with a BT Voyager combined ASDL modem and wireless router and an HP officejet 6110? I’m no network expert.

Thanks

Gary

Try this:

AirTunes, AirPort Express, and the WRT54G
Filed under: General — admin @ 4:45 pm
Here’s my notes for setting up your brand spanking new AirPort Express with your Linksys WRT54G (or GS) in WDS (bridging) mode, while still allowing AirTunes to work.
Part 1: Your Linksys WRT54G(S) setup
1. Grab the most recent public sveasoft firmware from here. (direct link to download the G firmware file here - Description: USE OF THIS FIRMWARE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK! MAKE SURE YOU USE THE APPROPRIATE VERSION - “G” for WRT54G MODELS AND “GS” FOR WRT54GS MODELS.)
2. WRT54GS users, please make sure you grabbed the firmware from the first link above - the direct link is for the WRT54G ONLY!!!!!!
3. Install the firmware (Administration–>Upgrade Firmware)
4. Set the channel on your Linksys to Channel 1 (Wireless–>Basic Settings)
5. Provide the MAC address of your AirPort Express’s wireless interface on the WDS setup page (Wireless–>WDS), selecting the “LAN” option
6. On the same page, toggle “Lazy WDS” and “WDS Subnet” to off.
7. Turn off the loopback interface (Administration–>Management)
8. Set “Ignore Anonymous Requests” to off in the Firewall setup (Security–>Firewall)
Part 2: Your Airport Express Setup
1. Install the AirPort software that came on the CD with your AirPort Express
2. Hook your AirPport Express up to your Macintosh via an ethernet cable
3. Open the AirPort Admin Utility (Applications/Utilities/AirPort Admin Utility)
4. Select your new AirPort Express from the list of found access points, and click configure
5. On the AirPort tab, set:
o Use base station to: Create a Wireless Network
o Network Name to the same SSID as your WRT54G(S)
o Wireless Channel to 1
o If you’re using WEP, you’ll need to enter your WEP key.
o If you’re not broadcasting your SSID, check the “Make this a closed network” box
o Turn off DHCP & NAT
6. Jump over to the WDS tab and check Enable this base station and set it to work as a “remote base station”
7. Check Allow wireless clients on this base station
8. Enter the MAC address for your WRT54G(S)***NOTE*** in the Main AirPort ID box. (or if you’re SSID is broadcast, just click browse and pick it from the list)
***NOTE***(WIRELESS MAC ADDRESS… guess I thought that was a given, but seems to be some confusion - this is WDS - Wireless, hence the need for the WIRELESS MAC address…) : The linksys router’s got three different MAC addresses. One each for the wired WAN, the LAN and for the wireless LAN.
9. On the Music tab, check Enable AirTunes and put in a nice name for your speaker connection
10. Click Update and wait for your AirPort Express to reboot
Once this all is done and your AirPort Express comes up, you should see a pretty blue light on the side (front) of it, indicating that your WDS connection is up and purring and you can now hook up your speakers, fire up iTunes, and rock the house.
Wireless Encryption Addendum:
Keep in mind that you can only use WEP (or no encryption at all) with WDS due to the way MAC addresses get encrypted when using WPA, which doesn’t work well when you need to hard code the “remote” WDS node’s MAC address on the Linksys… also, please read the comments below regarding the WEP key and a nasty little $ that is needed for this to work.

it took me an entire day to get it to work with my linksys wrt54g in WDS mode.  :evil:

Bought one of those too and had LOTS of problems. Silly me, I thought apple products were easier to use…

Got everething to work by now. Howerver I cant get a stable music stream thur air tunes. I think I have tried everything.

It cuts the streaming in about 2 min, and never comes back again.

Any suggestions?

Another thing, I have found o Mac software that allows the streaming from any media player (like real player, winamp) to airtunes. Sadly this is a Mac only soft (http://rogueamoeba.com/slipstream/). Anyone knows anyway to stream music from other players in win xp?

linc

Thanks for this. However, a recent visit to the Apple Genius Bar in their new store in London proved to be the end of my 3 month battle to get it working.  They agreed with me that it didn’t work and replaced it immediately, despite the fact I had bought it in NY and the versions are different. The US version has 13 channels, the UK version 11 only.

Took it home and it installed in 10 mins !! Now enjoying wireless itunes around the house. The only problem is that I need 3 more