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itsjustmeee

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Dec 28, 2008
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For some reason, my fairly new Airport Extreme keeps wanting to add numbers to all of my 3 computers using wifi. The Mac Mini is gets the "The name mac mini is already in use, etc, etc" and it changes it to "Mac Mini 2". It's gone all the way up to Mac Mini 6. My macbook is now "Macbook 2" and my macbook pro is "Macbook pro 2". Does anyone have a clue as to why this happens and is there any way to prevent it?

I know I can unplug the modem and turn off all of the computers and let it assign new ip address to everything, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.

And advice would be appreciated.
 
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