Windows cannot connect to internet airport extreme

The assistant was able to find the network, but somewhere it is not finding? I mean, that'd be a really stupid thing for the ISP to pull. My DSL goes into my wireless router and each treats each other as an adult. You know, Ethernet. Ditto for everything else on the network, wired and wireless. No PPPoE to be seen anywhere. My other brain is hung like a horse too. IRC isn't old school.

Old school is being able to say 'finger me' with a straight face. Find More Posts by Kickaha. Unplug everything and start again while RTFM. Check in the Apple product discussion boards under Airport Extreme. However it was not the solution to my problem so I don't recall what it said. Find More Posts by naren. I was looking around the Earthlink support site and caught this page. It looks like you will use PPPoE.

The modem bellsouth sent me is the westell It is a router and modem. What modem ie. I can help better with that info. There used to be a problem where the computer would try to use the ethernet port even if it isn't connected. This was caused by selecting the "Connect Automatically when Needed" option under the built-in Ethernet configuration pane.

If this check box is selected, but there is no server to authenticate against, the connection is disconnected. If you reestablish the wireless network connection, it disconnects again after a short time. To disable IEEE Click Start, type ncpa. Right-click your wireless network connection, and then clicks Properties. Click the Wireless Networks tab. Under Preferred networks, click your wireless network, and then click Properties.

Refer to the steps from the following Microsoft article. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. If you have not yet tried this then you may want to reset the Apple Airport Express and check if that helps you. Further, as both laptops can connect to the network directly by an Ethernet cable, ensure to install all pending updates and restart the computer to check if that helps.

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