Strange problem: My airport extreme has a green light, the internet is working, but I cannot access the hardware from my airport utility. I have multiple harddrives connected directly to the AE with no problems for the past year, and for the last week I have been unable to connect. I have restarted the computer but am ambivelent to do a complete reset of the AE. Any suggestions of what the problem could be?
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Help with airport extreme
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Yeah, that's what I meant, unfortunately Apple decides it is a good idea to not include an internet port in some of their lineup.
It's for cases like this where an ethernet port is needed.
I know you can get cheap USB to ethernet adapters on Ebay, cheaper than Apple's thunderbolt to ethernet, they are slower though, 100 Mb instead of Gbit.
Edit: Ebay link http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=USB+to+ethernet&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1311.R1.TR7.TRC2&_nkw=usb+to+ethernet+adapter&_sacat=0
Not being able to access my Airport Extreme from the Airport Utility was the first symptom to my Extreme dying a horrible, premature death.
Eventually - in my case - I wasn't able to access the internet through the extreme despite it still displaying a green status light.
I would restart your Extreme as a troubleshooting step. I'd just verify no disk/network usage then just pull the plug on it for a few seconds.
After the restart, then check to see if you can connect to the Extreme via the Airport Utility.
Eventually - in my case - I wasn't able to access the internet through the extreme despite it still displaying a green status light.
I would restart your Extreme as a troubleshooting step. I'd just verify no disk/network usage then just pull the plug on it for a few seconds.
After the restart, then check to see if you can connect to the Extreme via the Airport Utility.