Comments on: Airport Express headaches http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/ Nonprofit tech. Knitting. Activism - It's a reason not an excuse. Fri, 18 May 2012 21:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lucas http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4704 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:04:49 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4704 Same here, $ in front of password.

There’s also a doc about this here.

]]> By: markowitz1959 http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4703 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:20 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4703 Please note that this advice also works for those, like myself, using MAC address to limit access to the WiFi. Great advice, thanks a lot,

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]]> By: Tom http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4702 Tue, 19 May 2009 20:54:17 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4702 You just need to add an $ before the WEP password. For example: $57840403 etc.

]]> By: john http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4701 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:42:18 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4701 this is great advice, thanks!!!

]]> By: Jonas Larsen http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4700 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:39:42 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4700 Thanks a lot!
I really had a lot of trouble with my airport but this solved it in 10 minutes.

My airport really disliked the WEP key and I had to do a factory reset before I could connect to it

]]> By: dean cameron http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4699 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:23:22 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4699 i’m switching from a d-link to the airport extreme and would love to be able to have my hp wireless printer join the network without having to hook it up to one of my 2 precious airport express thingymabobs.

anyone whose experienced that sort of hookup?

]]> By: Lorien http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4698 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:29 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4698 Thanks! This helped me get my Express working in about 5 minutes.

]]> By: Charlie M http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4697 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:16:29 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4697 I just upgraded my Airport Express firmware to v6.3. After that I couldn’t connect to my WEP enabled network. I was going to agree with you, and switch to WPA, until I checked another PC’s wireless and figured out the problem was with my Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. Once I rebooted that all was well again.

I remember having problems 3-4 years ago when I got my Airport Express. I spent a lot of time getting it on the network using WEP. The trick was putting a $ in front of the 26 character hex key (128-bit encryption). Since then it’s worked with a variety of wireless base stations, including a Cisco Aironet, a couple Linksys, and recently the Actiontec.

I’m considering switching to WPA soon, when we add a wireless printer to replace a 7 year old HP that’s on a JetDirect 175x Wireless Print server. I’d rather not mess with that again either. Encouraged to here WPA should be easier.

]]> By: Judi Sohn http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4696 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:38:18 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4696 I did move to WPA. WEP was the default, and Verizon won’t talk to you about wireless connection issues if you’re using anything but WEP. So I left it there, not finding a really strong reason to switch. The printer gave me that reason.

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://judisohn.com/2008/01/20/airport_express_headaches/comment-page-1/#comment-4695 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:36:17 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/01/airport_express_headaches/#comment-4695 Yeah, ditto the WEP comments. Must you or can you move to a version of WPA?

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