Airport Extreme Wireless

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How does this work? I bought one today, got the internet set up and working, and the laptops in the house are connected to the wireless fine.

Thing is, my iPhone4 can't even see the wireless, let alone connect. Is there something in the settings i'm missing?

Thanks in advance.
 
I've tried all the different a/b/g/n settings and none of them work. This is really silly - all the laptops can see the wireless, but neither my iPhone 4 or my girlfriend's 3GS can?!?
 
The newer AAEB models can run simultaneous dual-band. If it's not working for the OP then either he has set it to wireless N only or has an older model.
 
Nope, it was nothing like that. I shorted my SSID from AIRPORTEXTREME TO AAPE and it suddenly appeared.

Is there an iOS SSID character limit that i'm not aware of?

[Edit] It wasn't that as it's disappeared again. I'm sure it was there for a moment though.

[Edit 2] Tried guest network, the laptop can see it but the iPhone can't. Tried enabling and disabling 5GHz and cycling though the different types, none appear on the iPhone.
 
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Tried manually adding the SSID but it says it can't connect.

Tried disabling wireless-N (as that seems to be the problem in that thread) but it still doesn't appear.
 
Okay, the plot thickens.



It almost seems like the AAPE is "locked" to 5GHz only. Simply put, the laptops can only see it and connect fine as they're both happy with 5GHz networks.

I have an old "G" USB dongle here and that can't see the wireless network either.

The dilemma is, no matter what I change, the AAPE will NOT broadcast on 2.4GHz. No matter what setting I change, the laptop still connects to, and can only see, a 5GHz network.

Have I been unlucky and ended up with an AAPE with a damaged antenna or similar?
 
Okay, i've got it working.



Basically 5GHz is always on. I can't disable it. All I can do is either choose to give it a separate SSID to the 2.4GHz signal, or not.

The 2.4GHz signal only enables if I manually set the wireless channels on the AAPE. If I leave it on auto, it switches the 2.4GHz off totally.

And also, the iPhone cannot connect to any form of 5GHz signal on the AAPE. I've tried enabling it with only 5GHz and a/b/g only, but it still won't see it. That can be worked around, however, by using the 2.4GHz.

Thanks all for your help. I don't suppose any of you know why the AAPE works like this? For an Apple product, it's probably the most complicated router i've ever had to use. Even Linksys, with their pages and pages or sub-menus is more intuitive than the AAPE. Ah well.

[Edit] Shine, it's a brand new Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. Bought it yesterday, so I believe that makes it revision 5?
 
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Mine is a revision 4 and I leave mine on auto - my G/N devices connect fine without issues. I think you may a faulty one.
 
shine said:
Mine is a revision 4 and I leave mine on auto - my G/N devices connect fine without issues. I think you may a faulty one.
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Same as above, found it really easy to get mine to work.

All my phones/macs/macbooks/iPads etc connect fine, as well as guests!
 
I found my TC & AEBS probably the easiest routers I've ever used, though I did buy them strictly to run dual-band 2.4Ghz/5Ghz networks out-of-the-box :p
 
Even now the iPhone is being really picky, it'll connect most of the time but it keeps asking for the WPA2 key even though i've given it already.

I'm thinking I might ask Apple to change it. Got nothing to lose.

I was wondering if it's something to do with interference (as shown in the list above, 2.4GHz is a busy frequency in these parts) but the iPhone won't see the 2.4GHz signal in automatic mode even if I put it next to the AAPE.
 
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Got it replaced. No difference. Wireless is still flaky as hell and the iPhone can't see any 5GHz network.

Refund tomorrow.
 
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